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List Of Number-one Singles Of 1964 (France)
This is a list of the French Singles & Airplay Chart Reviews number-ones of 1964. Summary Singles Chart See also * *List of number-one hits (France)
This is a list of singles that have peaked at number-one in France from the Top 100 Singles chart compiled weekly by Institut français d'opinion publique (1955 - 1983) and Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (since 1984).
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France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Adamo
Salvatore Adamo (born November 1, 1943) is a Belgian-Italian musician, singer and composer, who is known for his romantic ballads. Adamo was born in Comiso, Sicily, Italy, and has lived in Belgium since the age of three, which is why he has dual citizenship. Since 2001 Adamo holds the Belgian noble title of '' Ridder'', similar to the English title of "Knight". He first gained popularity throughout Europe and later in the Middle East, Latin America, Japan, and the United States. He has sold more than 80 million albums and 20 million singles making him one of the most commercially successful musicians in the world. He mainly performs in French but has also sung in Italian, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Turkish. "Tombe la neige", " La nuit", "Vous permettez, Monsieur ?", "Inch'Allah" and "C'est ma vie" remain his best known songs. He is currently the best selling Belgian musician of all time. Early life The father of Adamo, Antonio, emigrated to Belgium in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 In France
Events from the year 1964 in France. Incumbents * President: Charles de Gaulle * Prime Minister: Georges Pompidou Events *27 January – France and the People's Republic of China announce their decision to establish diplomatic relations. *11 February – The Republic of China (Taiwan) drops diplomatic relations with France because of French recognition of the People's Republic of China. *8-15 March – Cantonal elections held. *23 May – Mrs. Madeleine Dassault, 63, wife of French plane manufacturer and politician Marcel Dassault, is kidnapped while leaving her car in front of her Paris home; she is found unharmed the next day in a farmhouse 27 miles from Paris. Sport *22 June – Tour de France begins. *14 July – Tour de France ends, won by Jacques Anquetil. Births January to March *6 January – Loïc Courteau, tennis player *7 January – Hervé Balland, cross-country skier *10 January – Claude Morinière, long jumper *11 January – Albert Dupontel, actor and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Number-one Hits (France)
This is a list of singles that have peaked at number-one in France from the Top 100 Singles chart compiled weekly by Institut français d'opinion publique (1955 - 1983) and Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (since 1984). 1950s IFOP 1960s 1970s 1980s SNEP 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *French popular music *List of artists who reached number one on the French Singles Chart List inclusion * All acts are listed alphabetically. * Solo artists are alphabetized by last name (unless they use only their first name, e.g. Alizée, listed under A), Groups by group name excluding "A," "An", "The" (in English), "Le", "La" an ... {{FrenchNumber1s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1964. Specific locations * 1964 in British music * 1964 in Norwegian music Specific genres *1964 in country music * 1964 in jazz Events *January 1 – ''Top of the Pops'' is broadcast for the first time, on BBC television in the U.K. *January 3 – Footage of the Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England is shown on '' The Jack Paar Show''. *January 10 – '' Introducing... The Beatles'', the first album by The Beatles to be released in the United States, comes out on Chicago's Vee-Jay Records, preceding Capitol Records' release of ''Meet the Beatles!'', scheduled for January 20. *January 13 – Bob Dylan's '' The Times They Are a-Changin''' is released on Columbia Records. *January 15 – Vee Jay Records files a lawsuit against Capitol Records and Swan Records over manufacturing and distribution rights to Beatles albums. On April 9, Capitol Records is granted an injunction restraining Vee Jay Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacré Charlemagne
"Sacré Charlemagne" is a song by France Gall. It was released in 1964 as a single, on an EP, and on an album, credited to "France Gall et ses petits amis". According to the charts U.S. ''Billboard'' published in its "Hits of the World" section, the song reached no. 1 in France. Lyrics The song's lyrics were written by Robert Gall, the singer's father. They are about medieval emperor Charlemagne, traditionally seen as the "inventor of school", since education became mandatory for all children during his reign. Because of this the narrator of the song blames Charlemagne for having to go to school. The song reflected contempt for studying among young people. Reception The song was France Gall's first major success, selling over 2 million copies. In addition to reaching #1 on the French music charts, the song enjoyed international success, becoming a hit in Japan. Its popularity endures as a French schoolchildren's song. Charts See also * List of number-one sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Gall
Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall (9 October 1947 – 7 January 2018), known professionally as France Gall, was a French ''yé-yé'' singer. In 1965, aged 17, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg. Between 1973 and 1992, she collaborated with singer-songwriter Michel Berger. Early years Gall was born in Paris on 9 October 1947, to a highly musical family. Her father, the lyricist Robert Gall, wrote songs for Édith Piaf and Charles Aznavour. Her mother, Cécile Berthier, was a singer as well and the daughter of Paul Berthier, the co-founder of Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois. The only daughter of her family, France had two brothers: Patrice and Philippe. In spring 1963, Robert Gall encouraged his daughter to record songs and send the demos to the music publisher Denis Bourgeois. That July, she auditioned for Bourgeois at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, after which Bourgeois wanted to sign her immediately. France was subsequently sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dona, Dona
"Dona Dona", popularly known as "Donna, Donna", is a song about a calf being led to slaughter, written by Sholom Secunda and Aaron Zeitlin. Originally a Yiddish language song "Dana Dana" (in Yiddish דאַנאַ דאַנאַ), also known as "Dos Kelbl" (in Yiddish דאָס קעלבל, meaning ''The Calf''), it was a song used in a Yiddish play produced by Zeitlin. History "Dana Dana" was written for the Aaron Zeitlin stage production ''Esterke'' (1940–41) with music composed by Sholom Secunda. The lyrics, score, parts, and associated material are available online in the ''Yiddish Theater Digital Archives''. The lyric sheet is in typewritten Yiddish and handwritten Yiddish lyrics also appear in the piano score. The text underlay in the score and parts is otherwise romanized in a phonetic transcription that appears oriented toward stage German. The YIVO standardized transliteration system was not then in widespread use, and many Yiddish transliterations looked like German, to whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Pénitencier
"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans. Many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock band The Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and in the US and Canada. As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the "first folk rock hit". The song was first collected in Appalachia in the 1930s, but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song. It is listed as number 6393 in the Roud Folk Song Index. Origin and early versions Origin Like many folk songs, "The House of the Rising Sun" is of uncertain authorship. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad "The Unfortunate Rake", yet t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Hallyday
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (; 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France. During a career spanning 57 years, he released 79 albums and sold more than 110 million records worldwide, mainly in the French-speaking world, making him one of the best-selling artists in the world. He had five diamond albums, 40 golden albums, 22 platinum albums and earned ten ''Victoires de la Musique''. He sang an estimated 1,154 songs and performed 540 duets with 187 artists. Credited for his strong voice and his spectacular shows, he sometimes arrived by entering a stadium through the crowd and once by jumping from a helicopter above the Stade de France, where he performed 9 times. Among his 3,257 shows completed in 187 tours, the most memorable were at Parc des Princes in 1993, at the Stade de France in 1998, just after France's win in the 1998 FIFA World Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude François
Claude Antoine Marie François (; 1 February 1939 – 11 March 1978), also known by the nickname Cloclo, was a French pop singer, composer, songwriter, record producer, drummer and dancer. François co-wrote the lyrics of "Comme d'habitude" (composed by Jacques Revaux), the original version of "My Way" and composed the music of "Parce que je t'aime mon enfant", the original version of "My Boy". Among his other famous songs are "Le Téléphone Pleure", "Le lundi au soleil", "Magnolias for Ever" and "Alexandrie Alexandra". He also enjoyed considerable success with French-language versions of English-language songs, including "Belles! Belles! Belles!" (The Everly Brothers' "Made to Love"), "Cette année là" ("December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)") and "Je vais à Rio" ("I Go to Rio"). François sold some 35 million records during his career (and after his death) and was about to embark for the United States when he was accidentally electrocuted in March 1978 at age 39. Former French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Alamo
Frank Alamo (born Jean-François Grandin; 12 October 1941 – 11 October 2012) was a French singer. He achieved his greatest success in the 1960s. Biography He was born in Paris. He sang in a leading French children's choir, "Les Petits Chanteurs à la croix de bois", and studied music in London between 1957 and 1960.Biography by Gary Hill at Allmusic.com Retrieved 13 October 2012. . Retrieved 13 October 2012. While skiing at in 1962, he met |
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