Elli et Jacno – ‘Anne cherchait l’amour’ 1979
Dog hair causing tears to form, rooms full of pedigreed blue bloods, cycles that have doomed many to defeat, greenery succumbing to invading hordes, racist dogma, austerity measures and insecurity. The tales of high summer.
Melody Variétés was or still is a French variety TV program featuring musical acts popular for the time. Perhaps the show only ran in the late 1960s-1970s as most of the videos I’ve found come from that era.
F.R. David – Symphonie (1967)
Claude Dubois – En Voyage (1976)
Claude Dubois
Three Degrees-Giving Up Giving In
Spotted on Spring St across from the Los Angeles State Park. The McKenna logo has been declared vulgar by some (sorry no photo).
Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood-Some Velvet Morning (1967)
Zobi La Mouche- Les Négresses Vertes
There was a time in the early 90s when I didn’t have a job. I scavenged, weaned and gleaned from the excesses of consumer society. I didn’t need much – friends, homemade food, dance parties, books and music were my sustenance.
Les Négresses Vertes made up a big chunk of the soundtrack to this bit of my life. I listened to them constantly. They were the background music for two of my favorite books at the time: Letters of Insurgents and Song from the Forest.
With exuberant songs such as “Zobi la mouche” and “Voilà l’été” Les Négresses forged their lively ‘get up and dance’ style. The group’s unique sound was basically a musical melting-pot, created by fusing a variety of musical influences from their extremely diverse origins. Spanish and Gypsy rhythms were fused with traditional French dances and rai sounds and strung together with lyrics which appeared light and innocent on the surface but were, in fact, full of innuendo and hidden meanings.
Read more here.
L’homme des marais – Les Négresses Vertes
Harvested from my garden yesterday: carrots, tomatoes, chiles, beans, nopales, tunas and a few strawberries.
My great-great grandmother Matilde Vizcarra Tellez, Los Angeles, circa early 1930s.
Such mystery behind her small smile.