“Très Chic!” is the sequel to “C’est Chic!”, the top-selling celebration of French girl singers of the 1960s released on our Ace International imprint a couple of years back.
The collection spans the years 1964 to 1969 and is available in 24-track CD and 12-track deluxe vinyl album formats.
Serge Gainsbourg, eminence grise of Gallic girl pop, is represented on the CD version via ‘Attends Ou Va-T’en’ by France Gall, ‘Comment Te Dire Adieu’ by Françoise Hardy, ‘Au Risque De Te Deplaire’ by Marie-Blanche Vergne, ‘Les Papillons Noirs’ by Michèle Arnaud and ‘Sous Le Soleil Exactement’ by iconic singing actress Anna Karina.
Other highlights include ‘Tut, Tut, Tut, Tut’, a cool French cover of US girl group the Lollipops’ ‘Busy Signal’ by Roger Vadim discovery Gillian Hills, and Jacqueline Taïeb’s ‘7 AM’, the rare English language version of her celebrated ‘7 Heures Du Matin’.
Hand-picked titles by Annie Philippe, Elsa, Violaine, Pussy Cat, Brigitte Bardot, Delphine, Liz Brady, Valérie Lagrange and Violaine complete the set.
The accompanying 20-page booklet features an illustrated track commentary by Ace’s in-house yé-yé fanatics Mick Patrick and Malcolm Baumgart.