Showing posts with label Sacha Distel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sacha Distel. Show all posts

Monday, 19 March 2018

J'aime le coq



It was a horrid, icy weekend, and I spent as little of it as possible outdoors (apart from for fag breaks; Dolores Delargo Towers #4 is a smoke-free abode, much to our chagrin...) - but it was a productive one, as I began the task of hanging our vast collection of pictures. I tackled twenty-five assorted autographed photos, framed theatrical ephemera and Art Deco prints - and a full scale mirror - and started fitting others into their frames ready to hang in the next round. The place looks more like home already...

This morning, I desperately need a good lie-in in the warm bed - but was instead jolted out of my reverie by the realisation that it was time for work again. Bah!

Never mind, eh? To cheer ourselves up on this Tacky Music Monday, I have delved into the weird world of Scopitone (again - it is one of my minor obsessions) for a dose of jolliness.

Usually the home of the dodgiest go-go dancing dolly-birds in the business, for your delectation I have instead focused on the boys - and there's quite a bit of cute French flesh on show to warm us up in this double-bill!



Ooh, la-la!

Have a good week, peeps.

Monday, 29 January 2018

He didn't "live forever"



Halfway between former abode and the new one, I have sneaked into the seriously troubling, and distinctly unhygienic, surroundings of our local library's "Computer Centre" in order to check up on things around here. I am absolutely knackered after the weekend's humping (oo-er), but have spent the day travelling up and down the road between the two places by bus, recovering stuff we forgot in the frenzy of the move, cleaning and sorting the detritus we left behind, and buying stuff for Dolores Delargo Towers #4 - which currently looks a bit like the closing "warehouse scene" of Raiders of the Lost Ark (or in our case, the "lost" coffee filter papers, the "lost" shirt, the "lost" dressing-gown, etc.).

Hey ho, it would have been dear old Sacha Distel's 85th birthday today, so let's hand things over to him on this Tacky Music Monday, shall we?


Zut Alors!

Have a good week, dear reader...

Alexandre Sacha Distel (29th January 1933 – 22nd July 2004)

Monday, 5 October 2015

Quel domage


Autumn or no Autumn, our Cobaea scandens is almost reaching the gutter at Dolores Delargo Towers

Here we go... Monday again. Time to face the grey autumnal gloom, and off to work we go.

At least I have "Polari at the Lit Fest" to look forward to this evening - and, on this Tacky Music Monday, today's birthday girl the cool-as-ice Mlle Marie Laforêt (again) with her jolly little ditty Ivan, Boris et Moi to cheer things along!


The male dancers (if you can actually make them out in this aged clip) - are (remarkably) "Mr Smooth" himself Sacha Distel, actor and director Jean Yanne and the legendary Serge Gainsbourg...

Oooh-la-la!

Have a good week, folks!

Marie Laforêt (born Maïténa Marie Brigitte Doumenach, 5th October 1939)