THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,305) Jacqueline Taïeb — “Le Cœur Au Bout Des Doigts”/”The Heart at Your Fingertips”
Tunisian-born yé-yé great Jacqueline Taïeb (see #39) took Paris by storm with “7h du matin”/“7 in the morning”, about a schoolgirl waking up and wishing that Paul McCartney could help her with her English homework. Here is another classic track — a ‘67 B-side with a great horn fanfare. Beyoncé should have taken a sample, but Danish band Asteroids Galaxy Tour already beat her to it.
Jacqueline recalls (courtesy of Google Translate):
The record company assigned me a genius arranger, Jean Bouchéty, a man who worked for Michel Polnareff, for example. He always recorded his arrangements in London, and I found myself at 17 in a London studio with big names, chosen by Bouchéty, who were on all the records I recorded at that period.
And she recalls (courtesy of Google Translate):
My father, a dental surgeon, gave me a guitar for my 12th birthday . . . . [and] a slightly older friend taught me chords and my goal became to compose songs. I could no longer leave my guitar, I took it everywhere and sang the hits of the moment and my first compositions. The one that made friends laugh was “7 a.m.”. During the summer holidays in Tunisia, I am surrounded by friends and I put on my show. That’s when Rolande Bismuth, the editor of the already famous Michel Fugain, passed by and said to me “that’s what you’re doing, here’s my card, come see me in Paris in September”. I went there and it all started: contract then recordings in sight! All these titles were recorded in a great studio in “swinging London” at the end of the 60s, with crazy English musicians, led by Jean Bouchety, an exceptional arranger, who let me express my ideas despite being 18 years old. . . . Magical memories that often come back to me…
Wikipedia (courtesy of Google Translate):
Jacqueline Taïeb arrived in France at the age of 8 with her parents. She released her first album in January 1967, a maxi 45 rpm with which she achieved good success thanks to the title 7 hours in the morning. H[er] second album was released in April 1967 . . . . Several records followed without achieving the same success, and Jacqueline Taïeb temporarily disappeared from the French recording landscape. She reappeared in 1978, writing for others and producing several records under her own name, without however attracting the general public. At this time, she composed the title Ready to Follow you for Dana Dawson, a young singer from New York.
Here is the Asteroids Galaxy Tour:
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