May 23, 2007

Françoise Hardy - The Yeh-Yeh Girl From Paris



Immensely popular in her native France, the chanteuse first displayed her breathy, measured vocals in the early and mid-'60s. Her (mostly self-penned) recordings from that era draw from French pop traditions, lightweight '50s teen-idol rock, girl groups, and sultry jazz and blues -- sometimes in the same song.

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