"J'aime les filles (si vous êtes comme ça téléphonez moi)" is a 1967 single by French singer-songwriter

Jacques Dutronc Jacques Dutronc (born 28 April 1943) is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. He married singer Françoise Hardy on 30 March 1981 and together they have a son (manouche jazz) guitarist Thomas Dutronc, born 1973); they sep ...

. It reached number 1 in the

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for two weeks from 6 May 1967.

Court case

In 1977, Dutronc and co-writer

Jacques Lanzmann Jacques Lanzmann (4 May 1927 – 21 June 2006) was a French journalist, writer and lyricist. He is best known as a novelist and for his songwriting partnership with Jacques Dutronc. Early life Lanzmann spent the early part of his life in Auverg ...

sued an advertising agency for making use of an instrumental version of the song without permission. The agency successfully defended the claim, arguing that the extract they had used was identical in melody to an older song, differing only in rhythm. The case established a precedent in French law that applying a new rhythm to an existing tune does not create a new work for copyright purposes.

Track listing

Words by

and music by

Side A

Side B

Personnel

*Jacques Dutronc : voice, guitar, percussion *Hadi Kalafate : bass, percussion *Alain Le Govic (alias

Alain Chamfort Alain Chamfort (born Alain Joseph Yves Le Govic; 2 March 1949) is a French singer of Breton origin. Life and career Chamfort was a promising pianist in his youth, and the piano became his instrument of choice. His first band The Dreamers h ...

) : piano, organ *Jean-Pierre Alarcen : guitar *Jacques Pasut : rhythm guitar *Michel Pelay : drums

External links

Video of Jacques Dutronc performing "J'aime les filles"
on the French TV show ''Palmarès des chansons'', November 1966.

References

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