Johnny Hallyday

[dmg]

.... or Nana Mouskouri.

I know that you probably are aware of it, but Mouskouri did a cover of Why worry and included in the album of the same name!

... or Nana Mascara.  Why bother!

[herlock]

.... or Nana Mouskouri.

I know that you probably are aware of it, but Mouskouri did a cover of Why worry and included in the album of the same name!

... or Nana Mascara.  Why bother!

I don't like her at all, but the WW cover is not bad at all actually

[Banjo99uk]

and you cant beat a good croque madame.

[twm]

I didn't know Nana M had recorded "Why Worry".

In the summer of 1980, Dylan wrote "Every Grain of Sand" and, soon after, recorded a demo of it, apparently so that he could send it to her and get her to do it - which she did, I understand. The two of them had met during the course of Dylan's 1978 tour. Anyway, the interesting thing to Dylan collectors is that the demo and her version had a slightly different lyric from Dylan's later recording.

She was reasonably successful in Britain in the early 1970s - she had a TV series here for quite a few years, on the back of which she had a fair amount of success in the album charts, too. She's not really my cup of tea, I'm afraid, but somebody must have liked her. Coincidentally, Demis Roussos was successful here in broadly the same sort of time period.  Again, not my cup of tea but there it goes ...

[JF]

 

not my cup of tea too, but I must admit me and my parents wre listening to her on cassette in the car back in the early 80's

In France, I think her most successufl song is "je chante avec toi libert

[vgonis]

Every grain of sand is on the Why worry album, together with Yesterday, (beatles), Sweet surrender (John Denver) Song for Liberty (from Nabucco-Verdi) Love me tender, Missing (Vangelis/Tim Rice) Only Love (V.Cosma/N.Gimbell) and Time in a bottle (Jim Croce). Issued in 1986 by Philips-Phonogram.
At a best of in 1991, she included two songs from this album, WW and `Love me tender.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Mouskouri

She would be a great export for Greece if she issued her records from a Greek company!
I grew up listening to her fantastic voice, but I moved on!Then I returned.

[ds1984]

Johnny Hallyday is a real star in france, aduled by one half, execrated and mocked by the other half.

The day he will pass away, half of the France will deeply cry, the other half, blinded until that by its extra artisitic side, will think that after all he was not all that bad.

At 69 and after the life he has gotten it is a true miracle that he is still able to sing that loud.