Tous les garçons et les filles

Contact avec Françoise Hardy
The debut on 45 rpm (1st French edition)
EP by Françoise Hardy
Released	June 1962[1]
Recorded	Studio Vogue, Villetaneuse, France
Genre	Chanson
Length	9:12
Label	Disques Vogue
Producer	Jacques Wolfsohn
2nd French edition (1962)
Italian cover (1963)[2]
UK cover (1964)[3]

"Tous les garçons et les filles"
B-side under paper sleeve[4]
Single by Françoise Hardy
from the album Françoise Hardy
A-side	"J'suis d'accord"
Released	1962
Format	45 RPM vinyl single
Genre	French pop
Length	5:05
Label	Disques Vogue
Writer(s)	Françoise Hardy, Roger Samyn
Dutch cover (1962)[5] A-side under UK paper sleeve (February 1964)[6] Japanese cover (1967)[7]

"Tous les garçons et les filles" (English: "All the Boys and Girls") is a song by French popular singer Françoise Hardy, released in 1962.

Background

The tune recounts the feelings of a young person who has never known love and her envy of the couples that surround her.

It was telecast on the evening of Sunday, October 28, 1962 in a musical interlude during the results of the 1962 referendum to allow direct election of the president of the French Republic.^[8] The song quickly became a success, selling 500,000 copies by the end of the year, and eventually selling over 700,000 copies in France.^[9] Additionally, it is quoted several times by the main characters in J. L. Carr's 1988 novel What Hetty Did.

Françoise Hardy also recorded the song in English ("Find Me a Boy", 1964), Italian ("Quelli della mia età", 1962; collected in Françoise Hardy canta per voi in italiano, 1963), and German ("Peter und Lou", 1963; collected in In Deutschland, 1965.)

On a French talk show named "Tout le Monde en Parle" Jimmy Page stated that he played the guitar as a session musician on the recording.

EP tracklist

Side A
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Oh oh chéri" (original title "Uh Oh")	Bobby Lee Trammell, ad. by Jil and Jan.[10]	Bobby Lee Trammell	2:20
2.	"Il est parti un jour"	Françoise Hardy	Françoise Hardy – Roger Samyn	1:47

Side B
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"J’suis d’accord"	Françoise Hardy	Françoise Hardy – Roger Samyn	2:00
2.	"Tous les garçons et les filles"	Françoise Hardy	Françoise Hardy – Roger Samyn	3:05

SP track listing

Side A
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"J’suis d’accord"	Françoise Hardy	Françoise Hardy – Roger Samyn	2:00

Side B
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Tous les garçons et les filles"	Françoise Hardy	Françoise Hardy – Roger Samyn	3:05

Cover versions

The song has been covered by many artists in many languages, including:

• Lill-Babs (in Swedish, "Vart Jag Än Går", 1963).
• Sophie Blaede (1962).
• Ginette Reno (1962).
• Catherine Spaak (1962).
• Aimable (on the accordion, 1963).
• Steve Perry ( in English, "Find Me A Girl", 1963)
• Eny Mara (in Portuguese, "A Idade Do Amor", 1964).
• Dulce Salles Cunha Braga (1965).
• Mia Frye (in English, "All the Girls and Boys", 1984).
• Eurythmics (bonus track on the album Be Yourself Tonight and, in some countries, B-side of the single "It's Alright - (Baby's Coming Back)"); sung in French by Annie Lennox.
• The Paquitas (accompanists of Xuxa) (in Portuguese, "Alguem para amar", 1991).
• Laurent Voulzy and Carla Bruni singing with the Enfoirés (album Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra comique, 1995).
• Marie Myriam (1996).
• Gigliola Cinquetti ("Quelli della mia età", 1999).
• Saint Etienne ("Find Me a Boy", album The Misadventures of Saint Etienne, music for the film Les Folies de Margaret (The Misadventures of Margaret), released in Japan in 1999).
• The Dresden Dolls.
• Thanh Lan in French and Vietnamese.
• Zona Zul (album Beira, 2006).^[11]
• Cœur de pirate.^[12]
• Elastic No-No Band (2007 live recording, released in 2012 compilation Not Like Most Folkies, Part 2: Early Covers).
• Raymond & Maria - released in single Ingen vill veta var du köpt din tröja

Movie soundtracks

"Tous les garçons et les filles"

• Metroland, United Kingdom, 1997.
  • Director: Philip Saville.
  • Main actors: Christian Bale, Emily Watson.
  • CD, Metroland, Warner Bros. Records, 1998 (UK).
• The Dreamers (Innocents: The Dreamers), France, Italy, United Kingdom, 2003.
  • Director: Bernardo Bertolucci.
  • Main actors: Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Michael Pitt.
  • CD, The Dreamers, Universal Records (9812084), 2003 (UK).
• The Statemen (Crime contre l’humanité), Canada, France, United Kingdom, 2003.
  • Director: Norman Jewison.
  • Main actors: Michael Caine, Jeremy Northam, Tilda Swinton.
• Se devo essere sincera, Italy, 2004.
  • Director: Davide Ferrario.
  • Main actors: Luciana Littizzetto, Neri Marcorè, Fabio Troiano.
• Attenberg, Greece, 2011.
  • Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari.
  • Main actors: Ariane Labed, Yorgos Lanthimos, Vangelis Mourikis.

"Find Me a Boy"

• The Misadventures of Margaret, United Kingdom, 1998.
  • Director: Brian Skeet.
  • Main actors : Jeremy Northam, Parker Posey, Brooke Shields.
  • Performed by Françoise Hardy and performed by Saint Etienne.^[13]

References

1. 45 rpm presented on French television (RTF) on June 5th, 1962, few days before its setting on sale in the record stores
2. Jolly/Disques Vogue, catalogue number: EPJ 2046X45.
3. Pye Records, catalogue number: NEP 24188.
4. In the Sixties the singles were not marketed in France. These discs were exclusively intended to the owners of bar and Café having a jukebox and for promotion near the media.
5. Disques Vogue, catalogue number: HV 2003.
6. Pye Records, catalogue number: 7N.15653.
7. Disques Vogue, catalogue number: JET-1790.
8. Françoise Hardy, Le Désespoir des singes… et autres bagatelles, éd. Robert Laffont, Paris, 2008, p. 49.
9. Bestsellers Les Meilleures Ventes Tout Temps de 45 T. / Singles, InfoDisc, accessed on line April 30, 2009.
10. Pseudonyms of Gilbert Guenet and Jean Setti, cousins of Jacques Wolfsohn; they wrote some successful songs for Johnny Hallyday.
11. Partial source: site officiel de Françoise Hardy
12. Video on YouTube
13. CD, The Misadventures of Saint Etienne, released only in Japan, 1999, it served as the soundtrack.