# What is that hit US song from the 50's or 60's with a French phrases in it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396 "2016-04-16T19:41:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/1 "2016-04-16T19:41:35Z")
It’s a nice easy listening kind of song sung by a group with female lead voice. It has several French lines in it then it has the English speaking park which includes “when you say” then the French phrase. IIRC it was on 50’s or 60’s Sirius but I could not write the title down while driving. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/2 "2016-04-16T19:55:00Z")
Que sera, sera? That’s Spanish, though. Voulez-vouz couchez avec moi? Sung by a guy. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/3 "2016-04-16T20:16:46Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Voulez-vouz couchez avec moi? Sung by a guy. That’s 70’s ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/4 "2016-04-16T20:20:18Z")
I just recalled it also had an almost Jimmy Durante like “hot cha cha cha cha” refrain throughout the song. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/5 "2016-04-16T20:21:15Z")
[Claudine Longet’s version of _Love Is Blue_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ZtwNZh5Wc) (_L’Amour est Bleu_) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/6 "2016-04-16T20:24:12Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > [Claudine Longet’s version of _Love Is Blue_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ZtwNZh5Wc) (_L’Amour est Bleu_) Beat me to it! ETA: except, wait, isn’t it all in French? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/7 "2016-04-16T20:40:16Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Que sera, sera? That’s Spanish, though. I had never bothered to look it up before, but Wikipedia says— > [@](#): > > The saying has no history in Spain, Italy, or France, and in fact is ungrammatical in all three of these Romance languages.[13] It is composed of Spanish or Italian words superimposed on English syntax. It was evidently formed by a word-for-word mistranslation of English “What will be will be”, merging the free relative pronoun what (= “that which”) with the interrogative what?[14] > [@](#): > > Voulez-vouz couchez avec moi? Sung by a guy. Patti LaBelle is a guy? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/8 "2016-04-16T20:41:37Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Beat me to it! ETA: except, wait, isn’t it all in French? No. At about 1:20 she starts speaking in English over the French lyric. It doesn’t include “when you say,” though. Here’s the [lyrics of Longet’s version](http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/claudine_longet/love_is_blue_lamour_est_bleu.html). (There were various versions in French and/or English in the late 1960s.) ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/9 "2016-04-16T20:43:15Z")
[Je T’Aime…Moi Non Plus?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP9RDO7V8KE) May be all in French too, I don’t remember and didn’t feel like sitting through the entire song to find out. It has French phrasing though and was on the radio sometime around the late sixties/early seventies, but not sung by a group. Probably NSFW due to accompanying imagery. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/10 "2016-04-16T20:47:41Z")
_Dominique_ Mid 60s. All in French. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/11 "2016-04-16T21:01:44Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > [Je T’Aime…Moi Non Plus?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP9RDO7V8KE) > > May be all in French too, I don’t remember and didn’t feel like sitting through the entire song to find out. It has French phrasing though and was on the radio sometime around the late sixties/early seventies, but not sung by a group. > > Probably NSFW due to accompanying imagery. It’s entirely in French, except for the orgasm, which is in Primal Language. 😉 Very popular with the guys in my high school class when it came out in 1969.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/12 "2016-04-16T21:19:55Z")
It was very popular with me when it came out in 1969. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/13 "2016-04-16T21:33:28Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I just recalled it also had an almost Jimmy Durante like “hot cha cha cha cha” refrain throughout the song. [Ca Plane Pour Moi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVDfmn_TMkI)? But wrong decade. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/14 "2016-04-16T21:40:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Michelle, ma belle > These are words that go together well > My Michelle > > Michelle, ma belle > Sont des mots qui vont tres bien ensemble > Tres bien ensemble I assume that’s french. Beatles - Michelle Lyrics ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/15 "2016-04-16T21:45:31Z")
Here are some websites with lists of songs with French words in them: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-215898.html](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-215898.html) > **[Rankopedia - Find the best online casinos](https://www.rankopedia.com)** > > Rankopedia is an online casino guide that lists the best onlne casinos and the bets online casino games. Find a good online casino today. > **[Songs in English that contain some French lyrics](https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/songs-in-english-that-contain-some-french-lyrics.269791/)** > > Pretty self explanatory—I’ll start with the first song I ever heard with French lyrics-"Michelle" by the Beatles > **[Pop songs with French lyrics](https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/pop-songs-with-french-lyrics.93476/)** > > OK kids, here's a challenge for yers: Name me some pop songs that have charted and/or received airplay in English-speaking countries, having at least one line of French in the lyrics. > > Examples (excuse my '80s bias): > > Ça Plane Pour Moi - Plastic... [http://www.songfacts.com/category-songs\_with\_foreign\_words\_in\_the\_lyrics.php](http://www.songfacts.com/category-songs_with_foreign_words_in_the_lyrics.php) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/16 "2016-04-16T21:45:43Z")
[Theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg-NDSLEkKI) from A Man and A Woman? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/17 "2016-04-16T22:11:51Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Patti LaBelle is a guy? Hey, it was the 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/18 "2016-04-17T01:40:19Z")
Thanks for suggestions. Have not found it yet, will keep looking. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/19 "2016-04-17T02:13:51Z")
Nat King Cole’s _Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup_? (1953) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396/20 "2016-04-17T02:40:05Z")
Sarah Vaughan’s “[C’est La Vie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qDWVppDunc)”? It fits somewhat. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-that-hit-us-song-from-the-50s-or-60s-with-a-french-phrases-in-it/752396.md?page=2)