Inside, someone dressed as Napoleon frugs with various wigged women, while France, wandering around the boat eventually collapses, glassy eyed, and her stiff (apparently dead body) carried off by the sorrowful black dancers and a coterie of white-clad women. In the video she was carried around a pleasure boat by two black dancers. Gainsbourg wrote “Teenie Weenie Boppie,” which offered up a strange video of France seemingly passed out on LSD. Gall’s maturity led her to try for more than kiddie songs pop songs, and “ye ye” rave-ups. Walt Disney actually thought the breathy, pretty French pop singer might make a perfect Alice for a new production of “Alice in Wonderland,” but he died and the project died with him. Was anyone claiming Gore displayed a lot of range and emotion on “It’s My Party,” or the rather monotonous “California Nights?” No, it was just pop. At the time, she probably was considered similar to Lesley Gore, in that both were given credit more for attitude than ability. Her biggest hit was probably another Gainsbourg item, the sassy "Laisse tomber les filles.” It wasn’t exactly big because of her singing, but her personality. An irony is that she had a hit with “L’ Amerique.” She recorded it in both German, Italian and Japanese versions (“Poupee de Cire, Poupee De Son” was the French original) but didn’t try for the UK/USA market. Somehow she represented Luxembourg in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest, and won with a song written by her friend Serge Gainsbourg. Isabelle Genevieve Gall (October 9, 1947-January 7, 2018) first gained fame at 16 with “Ne Sois Pas Si Bete” (“Dont Be So Stupid”).
But no, not the French ladies we love so much. Most people think anyone from France has a lot of gall. One of the first music stars to pass on in 2018 is France Gall. I suppose the closest thing to “ye ye” girls today are female gymnasts, who are perky, flexible, leave nothing to the imagination, but aren’t overtly sexual.
So were the Asian versions like Rita Chao. Chirps who weren’t overtly busty (like Little Eva or Petula Clark) were also welcome. It was just, well, NICE to see Annette in those “beach party” movies, and we liked the cheerful nature of the flat-chested bikini-wearing “Laugh-In” girls Goldie Hawn and Judy Carne. In France, they went oui-oui over one of their favorite “Ye Ye” girls, France Gall. In a kind of milder, gentler age, we appreciated youthful exuberance without that much leering. These days, “barely legal” ye-ye girls would not be allowed to frolic.
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