I’ve tried searching on the phrase but all I get is a bunch of chicken jokes. In French!
The story: A few months ago, as I was listening to the one and only (and pitifully underpowered) jazz station in our area (it’s a college station), I was enjoying a group singing a fetching little ditty in French. Now I haven’t spoken French since high school ~35 years ago, so I didn’t immediatly realize what they were saying. But after a while it struck me that the (female) singer was singing “I love you, but why the chicken?” What I could translate of the rest of the song was equally funny and I fell in love with it. Or serious like anyway. Well, life intervened and I forgot about it until last night when I was trying to tell my wife about this song, and couldn’t remember the group’s name. I’m not sure if ‘pourquoi le poulet’ is the name of the song or not, but I do remember the group’s name was in French. Does this ring any bells for anyone?
Please help, children are starving - for good jazz.
If that’s the song that was being performed on the Oscars when we came home and turned on the TV last night, then sorry, no. Although that’s what reminded me of the song in question. The group performing had the same ‘sound’.
Unfortunately, I didn’t catch their name. If someone could proffer that info, I’ll search on them and see if they also did the song I’m thinking about.