THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,906) Patricia Carli — “Le lion”
All I can say is yé-yé! Italian/Belgian/French singer and songwriter Patricia Carli sings of her lionly man, who apparently is quite the beast. It was written by her husband Léo Missir along with J.-M. Rivat. I think Jay-Z would blush writing this for Beyonce!
“You are the master and I I am before you Nothing more than a kitten But when you want sometimes Oh mamamamama you love me like a lion Mama, it’s so good” (courtesy of Google Translate)
Passion Chanson (courtesy of Google Translate):
The Italian-Belgian singer-songwriter Patricia Carli was born . . . in the Italian city of Taranto, under the name Rosetta Ardito. At the age of four, she sang in the church of her village . . . and singing became a passion. At the end of World War II, she moved with her parents to Belgium, where her father found work in a coal mine. At 20, she seriously considered becoming a singer and entered various local and regional competitions. She was told that everything was decided in Paris, and, driven by her courage, she moved to the French capital, taking on various odd jobs, such as washing dishes in a restaurant . . . . She then approached the artistic world she so desired, went to auditions, and, by chance, met Nicole, Eddie Barclay’s wife, as well as the producer Léo Missir in the early 1960s. The latter fell under the singer’s spell and married her before producing her records. After a few unsuccessful attempts, the artist achieved success in 1963 with “Demain tu te maries (Arrête arrête)”[/”You’re getting married tomorrow (Stop, stop)”]. And she continued her career with the French adaptation of the Italian song that won the Eurovision contest in 1964 in the mouth of Gigliola Cinquetti: “Non ho l’eta”[/”I’m Not Old Enough”] which became “Je suis à toi”[/”I Am Yours”] performed by Patricia Carli at the San Remo Festival in Italy. Her popularity then allowed Patricia to perform at the Olympia in Paris as the opening act for Nancy Holloway and Gilbert Bécaud. But, as she [later] confided to Thierry Ardisson . . . [her] husband, who had done everything to make her famous, was nevertheless jealous of her fame and asked her to stop singing. She then devoted herself more and more to composing songs for other artists such as David-Alexander Winter (“Oh lady Mary”), Mireille Mathieu (“Pardonne-moi ce caprice d’enfant”[/”Forgive Me This Childish Whim”], “Donne ton cœur donne ta vie”[/”Give Your Heart, Give Your Life”]), Christian Delagrange (“Rosetta”, “Sans toi je suis seul”[/”Without You I Am Alone”], “Petite fille”[/”Little Girl”], “Reviens mon amour reviens”[/”Come Back My Love, Come Back”], “Tendre Cathy”), Daniel Guichard (“La tendresse”[/”Tenderness”], “T’en souviens-tu Marie-Hélène”[/”Do You Remember, Marie-Hélène?”]) or Dalida (“Comme tu dois avoir froid”[/”You Must Be So Cold”]). But she continued to record albums nonetheless. In the second half of the 1970s, Patricia Carli divorced, lost her mother, and learned that she would have to fight cancer alone, forcing her to curtail her activities. In 1978, she took advantage of a remission from the disease to release a single, “L’homme sur la plage” (The Man on the Beach), which was a great success.
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