Need Help Compiling a List of Songs With Lines in French

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OK. I hit a brick wall and googling drew a blank (someone’s had to have done this on the net before - but I’ll be damned, any keyword combination I used came up with merde).

I gotta put together a CD of songs that use French lines or lyrics.

All I can come up with off the top of my head is:
[ul][li]Psycho Killer – Talking Heads[/li][li]Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand[/li][li]Lady Marmalade (Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Moi Ce Soir?) – LaBelle (Or that Moulin Ridge cover)[/li][li]Les Coeurs Jumeaux – Concrete Blond[/li][li]Lettres D’Amour – Sweet (Well at least the title & one line is French)[/li][li]Femme Fatale – Velvet Underground / REM – (Ditto)[/li][li](Intro to) Only Love Can Break Your Heart – Saint Entienne[/li][li]and maybe Bete’ Noir - Brian Ferryn (but I don’t recall the lyrics)[/ul][/li]…and that’s it. I KNOW there have to be A LOT more…at least enough to fill one 80-minute CDR.

So I ask you, amis qui savent, have any that come to mind? Any recommendations and all assistance are greatly appreciated.

Merci

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The Partisan – Leonard Cohen

See the lyrics here:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/leonardcohen/thepartisan.html

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“Michelle” by The Beatles:

“Sont des mots qui vont tres bien ensemble…”

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This site www.eur.com/musicals has a “search by language” if you want musicals.

Also, Robert Marien released a CD called “Broadway to Montreal” which has “Le fantom de l’opera” and “Le musique de la nuit” on it.

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My Cherie Amour - Stevie Wonder
O L’Amour - Erasure
Voulez-Vous - ABBA

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The Rufus Wainwright song also from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack

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Megadeth’s A Tout Le Monde
Lyrics

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Eyes Without a Face - Billy Idol

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How about Andy by Les Rita Mitsuko?

Granted, they’re a french sort of gig, but I always dug that song - good beat. Actually the whole album is pretty good. (The No Comprendo, in case you’re wondering.)

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Champs Elysees- NOFX

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Billy Joel, “C’Etait Toi (You Were the One)”

A visitor from Belgium listened to this song and said that while Billy’s French was understandable, the accent was pretty bad.

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Dancing Shoes - Dan Fogleberg “Tu et Danse, ma cour et danse, la tete” and some others.

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Pink Martini - “Sympathique” The band is American, but the song is in French, so I don’t know if that is what you’re looking for.

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Blondie, “Denis”

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R.E.M.'s Talk About The Passion has the line “Combien/ Combien du temps?”

(“How/ How much time?”)

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How about French songs with English lyrics ? Will that do also ?

Here are the lyrics to Robert Charlebois’ “The Frog Song” or Gilles Vigneault’s “La Fille d’un Avocat”

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Ben Folds Five - Your Redneck Past
Lyrics

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“If You Go Away”, covered by many artists.
“Les Bicyclettes de Versailles”, Englebert Humperdink

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Nicollette Larson and Art Garfunkel both did nice versions of “The French Waltz”.

Also just about anything from Kate and Anna McGarrigle.

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Blur’s “To The End” has backing vocals in French provided by Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier. And Stereolab have a few songs in French themselves, although I only know “Enivrez-Vous” (Get Drunk)

If you want some ambient dance on the CD, try some of Air’s songs. I’d recommend “Sexy Boy”.