Pop songs with French lyrics

[Uncle Steve]

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 Bertrand
Twist À St. Tropez - Telex
Fade To Grey - Visage
La Vie En Rose - Grace Jones
C'est Comme Ça - Les Rita Mitsuko

any others?

 

[materamagic]

Michelle by the Beatles hassome French in it!!!
won a grammy for song of the year in 1965 too

 

[materamagic]

also Lady Marmalade has some raunchy French in it too

 

[DEVO]

French Kissin' in the USA - Deborah Harry
Sunday Girl - Blondie (released both a French and English version)

 

[Captain Sensible]

That awful song by Bill Wyman, excuse my french, was it 'je suis an rock star?' it translated as 'are you a rock star' or 'I am a rock star' or some such thing.


And Rod Stewart had some french lyrics in 'Tonights the night'

 

[Captain Sensible]

Originally posted by DEVO
French Kissin' in the USA - Deborah Harry
Sunday Girl - Blondie (released both a French and English version)

'Denis, Denis' also had some french lyrics, didnt it?


And Hard Ons had some in one of their songs, just cant for the life of me remember which one.

 

[vanders]

Kylie - Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi

Thats all that springs to mind!

 

[Lady Lawrence]

Prince - Girls & Boys

 

[Captain Sensible]

Why is this locked?

 

[Shinboners]

Why just listen to and English song with the odd French lyric when you can have a song sung totally in French? Try Serge Gainsbourg, France Gall, Brigitte Bardot, Des Garcons Ordinaires, Souvenir, Jane Birkin, Katerine, Chantal Goya, Valerie Lemercier, Paris Combo.....plenty to choose from.

 

[Portia]

Edith Piaf - Non Je Ne Regrette Rien

 

[PeteLX]

Psycho Killer - Talking Heads had some French in it I think
C'est Chic - Chic (is that right??)
Michelle - The Beatles
Yesterday When I Was Young - Shirley Bassey (originally in French by Charles Aznavour)
Blume - Einsturzende Neubauten
C'est Ma Chanson - Petula Clark, the French version of her hit "This is My Song."
La Vie En Rose - Grace Jones
Supreme - Robbie Williams
Heros - David Bowie

 

[Nic]

Originally posted by PeteLX
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads had some French in it I think

Oui, it does.

 

[coxon]

blur - 'to the end'

chic - 'le freak'

 

[mantis]

C'est La Vie (sp) - Emerson, Lake & palmer

Que sera sera (sp) again, forgot all my French - Normie Rowe

 

[Captain Sensible]

Originally posted by mantis
C'est La Vie (sp) - Emerson, Lake & palmer

Que sera sera (sp) again, forgot all my French - Normie Rowe

C'est si bon-Louis Armstrong.

 

[Falchoon]

Originally posted by Porthos
Edith Piaf - Non Je Ne Regrette Rien

Is it me or did Edith Piaf sing a lot of songs with French lyrics , I love that song BTW, she also sang Tu Es Partout from Saving Private Ryan (on the old gramophone towards the finale), also did La Vie En Rose.

a few others

Que Sera Sera "whatever will be will be" not sure who did the original
Las Parablas de amour - Queen- not sure if it charted
Lost In France - Bonnie Tyler-got a lot of ooh la la's in it
Hands Up baby hands up - Ottawan- I believe is originally a french song, not sure if their is french in the translation though
Voulez Vous - Abba

and I'm sure Celine Dion would have slipped a french lyric or 2 into her English songs

 

[lenny&carl]

Oui are the champignons - Queen

 

[The Hippie]

Originally posted by Falchoon
Que Sera Sera "whatever will be will be" not sure who did the original

Doris Day sang it a loooonng time ago, not sure if she was the first to do it, though.

Slade also did a song called 'C'est La Vie'

The Police - Regatta De Blanc

 

[Uncle Steve]

Merci beaucoup to all respondents. Keep 'em coming!

 

[sog35]

B*witched - Cest La Vie

 

[DEVO]

Originally posted by localyokel
'Denis, Denis' also had some french lyrics, didnt it?

Humiliation. I forgot a Blondie song. If anyone in the family finds out, they'll never let me live it down.

 

[Vindaloo Mat]

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel

 

[raskolnikov]

Is Voulez Vous (ABBA) French?

 

[Falchoon]

Originally posted by DonFan
Is Voulez Vous (ABBA) French?

It means "I want you" in French