''Ma jeunesse fout le camp...'' is the seventh

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by French singer-songwriter

Françoise Hardy Françoise Madeleine Hardy (; 17 January 1944 – 11 June 2024) was a French singer-songwriter, actress, and author. She was known for singing melancholic, sentimental ballads. Hardy rose to prominence in the early 1960s as a leading figure in F ...

, released in November 1967 on

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. The title is highly idiomatic, but its general meaning in English is 'My youth is slipping away'. The album was released halfway between her early years in the

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phenomenon and her later, more singer-songwriter focused albums like ''

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''. It has been described as "her farewell to the yéyé years."

Track list

Except as noted, words and music were written by Françoise Hardy, and she is accompanied by the Charles Blackwell orchestra. # "Ma jeunesse fout le camp" – 3:05
Lyrics and music written by:

Guy Bontempelli Guy or GUY may refer to: Personal names * Guy (given name) * Guy (surname) * That Guy (...), the New Zealand street performer Leigh Hart Places * Guy, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet * Guy, Arkansas, US, a city * Guy, Indiana, US, an uninc ...

First performed by:

Michèle Arnaud Michèle Arnaud (, born Micheline Caré; 18 March 1919 – 30 March 1998), was a French singer, recording artist, and director. She was buried on 18 September 1998 at Montparnasse Cemetery. She is the mother of the singer Dominique Walter an ...

, 1962 # "Viens là" – 2:25 # "Mon amour adieu" – 2:20
Music written by: Hasell # "La Fin de l'été" – 2:35
Original title: "À la fin de l'été… (Tu sais)"
Lyrics by:

Jean-Max Rivière Jean-Max (1895–1970) was a French film actor.Goble p.106 Selected filmography * ''The Prosecutor Hallers'' (1930) * '' Le cap perdu'' (1931) * '' The Unknown Singer'' (1931) * ''The Darling of Paris'' (1931) * '' Suzanne'' (1932) * ''Once Upon ...

Music written by:

Gérard Bourgeois Gérard Bourgeois (born August 18, 1874, in Geneva, Switzerland (from French parents), and died December 15, 1944, in Paris, France) was a leading French film director during the silent era. After ten years in the theater, Gérard Bourgeois beca ...

First performed by:

Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( ; ; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an animal rights activist. Famous for portraying characters with Hedonism, hedonistic life ...

, 1964 # "En vous aimant bien" – 2:15
Accompanied by:

John Paul Jones John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 6, 1747 – July 18, 1792) was a Scottish-born naval officer who served in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War. Often referred to as the "Father of the American Navy", Jones is regard ...

# "Qui peut dire?" – 2:05
Accompanied by:

Jacques Dutronc Jacques Dutronc (; born 28 April 1943) is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. Some of Dutronc's best-known hits include " Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille" (which AllMusic has called "his finest hour"), "Le Responsa ...

# "Des ronds dans l'eau" – 2:25
Lyrics by:

Pierre Barouh Pierre Barouh (born Élie Pierre Barouh; 19 February 1934 – 28 December 2016) was a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film ''A Man and a Woman'' as an actor and the lyricist/singer for Francis Lai's music ...

Music written by: Raymond Le Sénéchal
First performed by:

Nicole Croisille Nicole Croisille (9 October 1936 – 4 June 2025) was a French singer and actress. She appeared in 24 films between 1961 and 2005, and recorded several albums since 1961. Perhaps her most heard work is on the soundtrack of 1966 film, '' A Man a ...

and

Annie Girardot Annie Suzanne Girardot (25 October 193128 February 2011) was a French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women un ...

, 1967 # "

Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux ''Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux'' () is a poem written by Louis Aragon in January 1943, and published in ' in 1944. The poem reflects on the inherent contradiction between love and the pain that it inevitably brings to those who experience it. ...

" – 2:20
Lyrics: poem by

Louis Aragon Louis Aragon (; 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the Surrealism, surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review ''Littératur ...

Music written by:

Georges Brassens Georges Charles Brassens (; ; 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet. As an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and ...

First performed by: Georges Brassens, 1953 # "Il est trop loin" – 3:40
Original title: "Sorrow"
Lyrics and music written by: Peter Yarrow and Noel "Paul" Stookey
First performed by:

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, 1962
French adaptation by: Daniel Hortis and

Danyel Gérard Danyel Gérard (born Gérard Daniel Kherlakian; 7 March 1939) is a French pop singer and composer. Life and work Gérard was born in Paris, France to an Armenian father and a Corsican mother, but grew up mainly in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. In ...

# "Mais il y a des soirs" – 2:10
Accompanied by:

# "Voilà" – 3:20
Accompanied by: Jacques Denjean # "C'était charmant" – 1:55

Editions

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* , 1968: ''Ma jeunesse fout le camp...'',

World Record Club The World Record Club Ltd. was a company in the United Kingdom that issued long-playing Gramophone records, records and reel-to-reel tapes, mainly of classical music and jazz— through a membership-based mail-order system during the 1950s and ...

(ORL 6016). * , 1968: ''Ma jeunesse fout le camp...'', Phono Vox (LPV 005). * , 1968: ''Ma jeunesse fout le camp…'',

/Vogue international industries (VC 6020). * , 1968: ''Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux'',

United Artists Records United Artists Records was an American record label founded by Max E. Youngstein of United Artists in 1957 to issue movie soundtracks. The label expanded into other genres, such as easy listening, jazz, pop, and R&B. History Genres In 1958 ...

(ULP 1191). * , 1968: ''Ma jeunesse fout le camp…'', Phono Vox (LPV 005). * , 1969: ''Mon Amour Adieu'',

Reprise Records Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operates through Warner Records, one of its flagship labels. Artists currently signed to Reprise Records include Green Day, En ...

(RS 6345).Les titres "Qui peut dire ?" et "Voilà" sont remplacés par "Je ne sais pas ce que je veux" et "Avec des si".

Reissue on CD

* , 1995: ''Ma jeunesse fout le camp...'', Kundalini/Vogue/

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Notes and references

{{Authority control Françoise Hardy albums 1967 albums 1960s French-language albums Disques Vogue albums