{"id":19747,"date":"2018-04-19T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19747"},"modified":"2018-04-19T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:50:38","slug":"un-homme-et-une-femme-et-un-homme-et-une-femme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/19\/un-homme-et-une-femme-et-un-homme-et-une-femme\/","title":{"rendered":"Un Homme Et Une Femme Et Un Homme Et Une Femme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we had a &#8220;Who sang it better?&#8221; post here on MfBJN, and as I know I&#8217;m your most important source for old timey musical comparisons, I feel like I&#8217;ve been letting you down.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, as I was spinning <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00KRHHQ58\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00KRHHQ58&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=a66479174fbdb6aeeaf9df2ef06f2d20\">Rendezvous Mit Mireille<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00KRHHQ58\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em>, I heard Mireille Mathieu singing &#8220;Un Homme et Une Femme&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/02jjoy9mC2c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, you might remember that Mireille is my <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/guess-brians-favorite-french-singer\/\" target=\"_new\">favorite French singer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sacha Boutros covers the song on her album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacha-boutros.com\/music\" target=\"_new\"><em>Simply Sacha<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v7FK2jZYyqM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Given the topic matter of the song, I prefer Boutros&#8217; more intimate approach versus the European poppish rendition.  It&#8217;s less performance and more confessional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But what about Eydie?<\/strong> you long time reader (sadly, the singular is intentional&#8211;well, not intentional, but unfortunately accurate) might ask.  Well, fortunately for Sacha, Eydie Gorme did not actually do this song (according to my thirty seconds of Internet research and years&#8217; experience in playing Eydie Gorme records).  She did do an English version with Steve Lawrence on the album <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000L9AAFA\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000L9AAFA&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=64d07dcdb71e42fb27a3315507a0e5cd\">A Man and a Woman<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000L9AAFA\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em>, but, dude, <em>it&#8217;s in English<\/em>.  Totally a different song.  (Note this is not the only time I&#8217;ve invoked this technicality; see also <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/12\/eydie-vs-herb-the-ultimate-head-to-head-musical-throwdown\/\" target=\"_new\">Eydie vs. Herb: The Ultimate Head-to-Head Musical Throwdown<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we had a &#8220;Who sang it better?&#8221; post here on MfBJN, and as I know I&#8217;m your most important source for old timey musical comparisons, I feel like I&#8217;ve been letting you down. This morning, as I was spinning Rendezvous Mit Mireille, I heard Mireille Mathieu singing &#8220;Un Homme et [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19747"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19757,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions\/19757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}