Hold on Tight by ELO has a verse in French.
All along, I thought that inaudible mumbo jumbo in the middle of Suite Judy Blue Eyes by CSN was French. According to lyrics site, it’s Spanish:
Que alegria me traiga Cuba
La reina de la Mar Caribe
Que cielo sol que lo tengan alli
Y que triste que no puedo vaya
Oh va, oh va, va.
Which loosely translates to:
What joy Cuba brings to me,
The Queen of the Caribbean Sea.
What sunny skies they have there,
And how sad it is that I cannot go.
Oh go, oh go, go.
Quick, somebody call the Joint Comittee on Un-American activities!
Styx - Never Say Never
Peter Gabriel, Games Without Frontiers:
April Wine, “Just Between You and Me”:
Seulement entre toi et moi
Means that our love will always be
The Police, “Hungry For You (j’aurais toujours faim de toi)” from Ghost in the Machine
Manu Chao, “Je ne t’aime plus” from Clandestino
Art of Noise, “Il Pleut” from The Seduction of Claude Debussy
Sadeness-Enigma
Sting’s “Perfect Love… Gone Wrong” from the album Brand New Day has whole sections of the song spoken in a sort of French rap style:
Then later…
Blur - To the End
Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Down at the Twist and Shout. The version on the compilation disc Party Girl has a whole verse in Cajun French.
Also, any number of Louisiana acts, like Buckwheat Zydeco, Terrance Simien, Clifton Chenier, Dr. John, Beausoleil, Jo-El Sonnier, etc., have songs that are all or part in Cajun dialect.
“Circumstances” by Rush
The more that things change, the more they stay the same.
Delta-32 Skee-doo!
Sting’s done a few in addition to the one Avalonion mentioned
Hungry For You (J’aurais Toujours Faim De Toi) from Ghost in The Machine (as a member of The Police), and he also did a remake of Jaques Brel’s Ne Me Quite Pas
Cole Porter’s You’re The Top:
“I’m just in the way, as the French would say, de trop,
But if baby, I’m the bottom, you’re the top!”
Rick Springfield - “Don’t Talk to Strangers” has a French verse
Kate Bush did a French version of “The Infant Kiss”
The Bigshot - Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
What about Peter Gabriel’s “Games without Frontiers?”
Also Jeff Buckley did a killer version of “Je n’en connais pas le fin” which I believe was a Nina Simone song, but I could be wrong about that.
“Rapture” by Blondie
yay, Blondie! Bestest band ever!
Blondie also did a version of “Sunday Girl” with one verse in French. For that matter, they did a version of “Sunday Girl” entirely in French.
Are songs entirely in French okay? If so,
Robbie Williams- Suprème
Céline Dion- On Ne Change Pas, Pour Que Tu M’aimes Encore
Golden Earring - Ce Soir. Quite a bit of French (at least I think it’s French).
God I think I’m the only person that owns a copy of Golden Earring’s “greatest hits”. Yes, it has more than “the” two songs on it. The only thing stranger than Golden Earring’s “greatest hits” is Mountain’s. I know it has to be more than 12 versions of “Mississippi Queen”, but damned if I know what else would be on there.