À toutes les filles...

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“À toutes les filles...”
“À toutes les filles...” cover
Single by Félix Gray and Didier Barbelivien
from the album Les Amours cassées
B-side Instrumental
Released May, 1990
Format 7" single
CD maxi
Genre Ballad
Length 4:14
Label Zone
Writer(s) Didier Barbelivien
Félix Gray
Producer Didier Barbelivien
Jean Albertini
Félix Gray and Didier Barbelivien singles chronology
"À toutes les filles..."
(1990)		 "Il faut laisser le temps au temps"
(1990)

"À toutes les filles..." is a 1990 song recorded as a duet by the French singers Didier Barbelivien and Félix Gray. This ballad was released as the first single from their album Les Amours cassées, in May 1990. The song achieved a huge success in France, topping the chart and becoming a very popular song throughout the years.

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[edit] Backgroung, music video and cover versions

The song was written by the both singers, while the music was composed by Barbelivien. Jean Albertini participated in the production of the single. The background vocals are performed by Anaïs, who was Barbelivien's wife at the time.

In the music video, Gray and Barbelivien run by car while they remember her former girlfriends who are seen in various situations. At the end, two women make them rise into their car.

The song also features on a 1990 compilation entitled À toutes les filles... and on 1996 Didier Barbelivien's album, Il faut laisser le temps au temps - Vol. 2, which contains all his duets with Félix Gray.

"À toutes les filles..." was parodied by many humorists. The most notable of them is probably that of Les Inconnus, under the title "Chagrin d'amour".[1]

This song is not related to Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson's song "To All the Girls I've Loved Before", despite the similarity of the titles.[2]

As this duet was a success, Gray and Barbelivien released three other singles : "Il faut laisser le temps au temps", "E vado via" and "Nos Amours cassées".

[edit] Charts performances

"À toutes les filles..." was charted on the French SNEP Singles Chart for 28 weeks, from June 2 to December 8, 1990, including 23 weeks in the top ten. It managed to disloged Zouk Machine's "Maldòn (la musique dans a peau)", one of the summer hits, in its 19th week of attendance, becoming thus the French number-one single which climbed the more slowly at the top of the chart.[3] With this single, it was the first appearance of Didier Barbelivien on the French Singles Chart, although it had composed many songs for other artists who were charted.[2]

According to the French TV show Duos de Légende, broadcast on TF1 on April 19, 2008, this song was one of the ten best-selling singles recorded as duets of all time in France. Although the song was not certified by the SNEP, Infodisc website reveals it was sold about 650,000 copies (the 34th best-selling single of the 1990s and the 332th one of all time).[4]

[edit] Track listings

7" single
  1. "À toutes les filles..." (4:14)
  2. "À toutes les filles..." (instrumental) (4:14)
CD maxi
  1. "À toutes les filles..." (4:14)
  2. "À toutes les filles..." (instrumental) (4:14)

[edit] Credits

  • Design cover : FKGB
  • Recording company : Zone / BMG
  • Arrangements : Bernard Estardy
  • Artistic direction : Jean Albertini
  • Background vocals : Anaïs

[edit] Chart

Chart (1990)[3] Peak
position
French Singles Chart 1
End of the year chart (1990) Position
French Singles Chart 2
Preceded by
"Maldòn (la musique dans a peau)" by Zouk Machine		 French (SNEP) number-one single
October 6, 1990 - October 13, 1990		 Succeeded by
"Kingston Town" by UB40

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Chagrin d'amour", music video Chartsinfrance.net (Retrieved April 20, 2008)
  2. ^ a b Elia Habib, Muz hit. tubes, p. 192 (ISBN 2-9518832-0-X)
  3. ^ a b "À toutes les filles...", in various Singles Chart Lescharts.com (Retrieved April 20, 2008)
  4. ^ Best-selling singles of all time in France Infodisc.fr (Retrieved April 20, 2008)