Covers of ye-ye girl songs

I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread where we list all the covers made of ye-ye girls songs.

Obviously, you've got April March's whole Chick Habit/Paris In April releases.

There's a ton of covers of Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son, which I've been featuring on my site. Some of the better ones are from Nosotrash, Die Moulinettes, Twinkle, Belle & Sebastian, Dubstar, Karina (Spanish 60s singer)... it's endless (I have about 40 and they're driving me crazy).

Baby Birkin - Attends Ou Va-T'ens (France Gall), Jane B (Jane Birkin), Harley Davidson (Bardot) and quite a few more.

Stereo Total - Ex Fan Des Sixties (Jane Birkin), Ach Ach Liebling (Francoise Hardy) and more I can't think of right now.

Vacaciones - Ne Sois Pas Si Bete (France G)

Gina X - Harley Davidson

Moving Pictures - Un Prince Charmant (France G)

OK, that will do for now :)

Would love to hear more. Generally if a band covers this stuff, I like their other stuff too.

Bambou and Lulu performing NE Dis Rien et Manon.
He has such a beautiful and involving voice.

Swedish group Raymond & Maria had a cover of Francoise Hardy's Tous les garcons et les filles as a b-side on their first single.
Quite good I think.

Sweet swedish guitar pop, they are quite inspired by Belle and Sebastian I think. They had a massive radio hit here in Sweden last summer with "Ingen vill vet var du köpt din tröja". They are really not that special.

I love all of April March's covers normally, but her cover of Chantal Goya's 'Mon Ange Gardien' - I just loathe it. I had to get rid of it after 2 listens, because Chantal's is so perfect, so delicate and amazing. I would have liked it if she'd changed the arrangement more to suit her vocals, they're just not delicate enough for the really lovely bits in this song.
You know how when you hear a cover that's more dominant, it's all you can hear in the original. I love Kim Gordon, but Free Kitten's version of 'Teenie Weenie Boppie' ruined it for me, I have such trouble listening to France's version now.

Montefiori Cocktail - Comment Te Dire Adieu
Jimmy Somerville (Featuring June Miles Kingston) - Comment Te Dire Adieu
Tokyo's Coolest Combo - Comment Te Dire Adieu
Daniel Darc - Comment Te Dire Adieu
Belle And Sebastian - Comment Te Dire Adieu
Les Georges Leningrad - Comment te Dire Adieu
Jane Birkin - Comment Te Dire Adieu

(Franзoise Hardy Covers) :)

Sylvie Vartan - La Maritza
Ajda Pekkan - Ay Dogarken

Marie Laforet - Mon Amour, Mon Ami
Gonul Yazar - Capkin Kiz

Marie Laforet - La Plage
Ajda Pekkan - Donmem Sana

Patricia Carli - Les mal aimes
Ajda Pekkan - Ilkokulda Tanismistik

Patricia Carli - Encore Une Fois
Patricia Carli - Bir gun sana donecegim

Yes, Patricia Carli covered herself in Turkish :) As far as I know she has 2 more Turkish songs, "Seni Andikca" and "Ozlerim Istanbul'u".

And a picture of Ajda Pekkan for your delight:

Thanks for the tips everyone, going to hunt some of those down.

Who's listened to Mareva (Galanter)'s Ukuyéyé album? I really like her cover of Stella's 'Pourquoi Pas Moi?', but otherwise find it pretty lacklustre. Her 'Laisse Tomber Les Filles' is the pits.

Yeah, I have and I love the 'Pourquoi Pas Moi' scopitone, but the 'Laisser Tomber' one made me pinpoint what I can't stand about her delivery - her vocal tone matches her bad acting in that clip. France Gall's original is masterful of course, but I'm not just a purist - I love April March's and Fabienne Delsol's cover.

Though I was wrong - her 'Ne Dis Rien' is the pits, such a passionate song rendered heartless.

I only say all this because I adore the originals and for me personally, these are an example of how to zap the life out of them.

I do have different taste, though, to a lot of the French girl fans who love e.g. all the stuff on Filles Sourires. So not to put anyone off whose taste falls more that way - but feel I want to warn anyone who has taste more similar to mine.

The reason I like 'Pourquoi' is it's a modern update with a certain slickness and polish, and it makes good use of Mareva's somewhat cold vocals. But with many of the others, I find the arrangements really mediocre and the instrumnentation lightweight and unsatisfying.

Found some of the Ajda Pekkan songs [url="http://divxizm.blogspot.com/2006/08/ajda-pekkan-tm-albmleri-full-albmler.html";]here.

Cheers.

The password thing is a little tricky. You have to download a .rar file, extract the notepad file from that and then it's in there. But I couldn't open the notepad file without renaming it.

So message me if you want the password.

Being a fan of the uke and bad puns (and French beauty queens, for that matter), I was excited about this album. I like the more uke-heavy tracks like C'est Bon and Bang Bang. Not so keen on others like Laisse... and 7 Heures du Matin.

I quite like the scopitones - I thought she was intentionally acting badly.

Woah. that second video has one of morning musume as the lead singer and one of HALCALI as one of the backing vocalists. I'm sure I recognise the fatter backing singer too who I think is the drummer in a band.