Name: Baby Pop
Brand: Philips
SKU: 864457
Price: 62.25 USD
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Baby Pop

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Album: Baby Pop
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Baby Pop
2)	Faut-Il Que Je T'Aime
3)	Temps de la Rentr?e, Le
4)	Attends Ou Va-T'En
5)	Mon Bateau de Nuit
6)	Am?rique, L'
7)	Cet Air-La
8)	C'Est Pas Facile d'?tre une Fille
9)	Nous Ne Sommes Pas des Anges
10)	On Se Ressemble Toi et Moi
11)	Deux Oiseaux
12)	Et des Baisers

Album: Baby Pop
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Baby Pop
2)	Faut-Il Que Je T'Aime
3)	Temps de la Rentr?e, Le
4)	Attends Ou Va-T'En
5)	Mon Bateau de Nuit
6)	Am?rique, L'
7)	Cet Air-La
8)	C'Est Pas Facile d'?tre une Fille
9)	Nous Ne Sommes Pas des Anges
10)	On Se Ressemble Toi et Moi
11)	Deux Oiseaux
12)	Et des Baisers

Performer Notes

Personnel: France Gall (vocals).
Recording information: 1966.
Arranger: Alain Goraguer.
Possibly France Gall's best album (though Les Sucettes, from earlier in 1966, gives it a run for its money), Baby Pop is also a key album of the entire French ye-ye scene. In much the same way that Revolver or Pet Sounds brought new musical and lyrical opportunities to British and American pop music the same year, the richly varied Baby Pop is a more mature and wide-ranging album than the bubblegummy singles that had made Gall's name. Producer Alain Goraguer's orchestra is less pronounced than usual, and his arrangements have a lightness of touch akin to Tony Hatch's very similar recordings with Petula Clark or even Burt Bacharach's work with Dionne Warwick. As always, there are a couple of eye-rollers on this album, with the so-cheesy-it's-oddly-fascinating "L'Amerique" being the most egregious. But the rest of the album -- from hit singles like the brassy title track (one of Gall's very best) and the sublime "Nous ne Sommes pas des Anges" to lesser-known album cuts like the Farfisa-driven "Faut-Il que Je T'Aime" -- is excellent, some of the finest female pop of the era, no matter what the language. ~ Stewart Mason