Tous les garçons et les filles
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"Tous les garçons et les filles" is a song of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy, released in 1962. It recounts the feelings of a young person who has never known love and her envy of the couples which surround her.
The song was telecast on the evening of October 30, 1962 in a musical interlude during an election referendum. It quickly became a success, selling 500,000 copies by the end of the year, and eventually selling over 700,000 copies in France.
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 Françoise in Germany, 1965.)
This song has been covered by many artists in many languages, including:
- Sophie Blaede (1962)
- Timi Yuro ("The Love Of A Boy")
- Ginette Reno (1962)
- Catherine Spaak (1962)
- Aimable (on the accordion, 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)")
- 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)
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