CHANSON DE JACKY, LA

Created on 12/02/2001
Latest update on 16/11/2023

Artist: Jacques Brel
Author: Jacques Brel
Label: Barclay
Year: 1965

"...Même si un jour à Knokke-Le Zoute..." Brel spent many a holiday at the Belgian coast as a child, where his old aunts Vanneste squeezed his cheeks and called him Jacky. He attended an Opportunity Knocks-competition in the local Casino in '53 but ended second last.

Covers:

1967:

Scott Walker [as Jackie]

1968:

Mort Shuman [as Jackie (La Chanson de Jacky)]

1971:

Willem Nijholt [idem; Dutch translation]

1990:

Marc Almond [as Jacky]

1994:

Wim Ravell [as Op Al Mijn Reizen]

1999:

Divine Comedy [as Jacky]

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