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Artist: Fantômes
Author: Jacques Dutronc/Thomas Dean Noton
Label: Vogue
Year: 1962
Ventures-alike instrumental used by composer Jacques Dutronc to open shows with as lead guitarist with his first band El Toro et les Cyclones. Their drummer (Charlot Bennaroch) moved over to French Shadows-lookalikes Les Fantômes and they recorded it as B-side of Le Diable en personne (Shakin' All Over). Fort Chabrol was a French expression since an incident in the summer of 1899 in the wake of the Dreyfus case, when Jules Guérin, leader of the Ligue Antisémite, barricaded himself with quite a few followers in the Rue de Chabrol in Paris. For more than a month they resisted the siege while they were supplied provisions thrown by supporters from neigboring rooftops.
Covers:
José Salcy et ses Jam's [first vocal version, as Le Temps de l'amour; lyrics by André Salvet, who's original title (Le Temps des copains) was outvoted by Lucien Morisse, program director of Europe 1, who feared confusion with the eponymous TV series; his alternative (the first lyric line) landed him co-credits]
Colette Rivat [second version]
Françoise Hardy [idem; also in Italian as L'Eta Dell'Amore; her calling card announcing her break-through later that year (with Tous les garçons)]
Jean-Claude Pascal [idem]
Jacques Dutronc [author; idem]
April March [as While We're Young]
Sylvie Vartan [as Le Temps de l'amour]
Vanessa Paradis [idem]
Miossec [idem]
Dutronc was an art director at Vogue when newcomer Françoise Hardy was in need for some new songs. Not to be confused with Marc Aryan's Le Temps de l'amour ('64).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)