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7 Colts Pour Schmoll - Eddy Mitchell (1968)

1963 - French cover of "Gonna Get Back Home Somehow" (Elvis Presley) by Les Chaussettes Noires. @thetaoofzoe @eptodaytommorowforever

The French singer, composer and pianist Michel Berger is known for having created only two musicals in his career

Starmania which became a MONUMENT of French musical culture and La légende de Jimmy which despite its two versions was a bitter failure compared to his elder

But in reality his desire to create a musical dates back to 1976, when for a television show he presented :

To summarize the story :

Émilie is the youngest daughter of a television lighting designer, she is a young girl with limitless imagination who loves music

She tries her luck by infiltrating a television set where she meets Sébastien, a cameraman with whom she falls in love

Unfortunately, even if their feelings do exist, their needs and their visions of the future are different

Disappointed, Émilie will persevere and become, thanks to the advice of her godmother Cécile, a famous singer unfortunately solitary without passion or love to give or receive ...

Distribution :

France Gall : Emilie

Patrick Bouchitey : Sébastien

Nicole Croisille : Cécile ( Émilie’s godmother )

Christophe : Émilie’s father

Vannick Le Poulain and Rima Vetter : Émilie’s sisters

Françoise Hardy : The actress / star

Eddy Mitchell : the rock teacher

Michel Berger and Martine Kelly : the famous producers

Rod Stewart : useless cameo of himself

France Gall , Berger's wife plays , as she will later play later in Starmania the main female role

Françoise Hardy and Eddie Mitchel would later play in the very first version of "Emilie Jolie"

This strange show which is not really one ( never played live / broadcast only once on television without promotion / no album to sell ) will sink INCREDIBLY QUICKLY into oblivion and collective indifference

It's a miracle that some songs have survived the test of time and are still available today :

Anecdotes :

The budget was quite limited for the costumes and the stage at the time these “ little musical stories” were not perceived as important, we will have to wait Emilie Jolie in 1979 so that money was really paid to television musical creatives

Michel Berge seems to have taken this with humor as evidenced by these few lines from " La chansons des producteurs " :

Si on vivait à Hollywood

If we lived in Hollywood

where the music is in the mood

ça changerait mais regardez un peu nos coudes

that would change, but look at our elbows

c’est une bonne machine à coudre qu’il nous faudrait !

It's a good sewing machine that we need !

...

The song " ça balance pas mal à Paris " is the only memorable song from the show, it had its small success because it was marketed as the first duet Berger + Gall and not as a musical extract :

I invite you to follow the path of my main masterlist to learn more about French musicals and their stories :)