Ginette Reno - Beautiful Second Hand Man

Issued in Canada September 1970 on Parrot 40053. Stereo.

Ginette Reno (born Raynault) attracted crowds as a child in the early 1950s, singing in front of her father's East-end Montreal butcher shop. She appeared on CKVL's Amateur Hour, and was soon funding singing lessons by delivering newspapers. She took a brief hiatus from singing when puberty hit and her voice cracked, but hearing Connie Francis sing "Where The Boys Are" in 1961 spurred her to continue.

Ginette signed with Parrot Records in 1968. This is her fourth single for them. "Beautiful Second Hand Man" entered the RPM 100 on October 3, 1970 and spent the second of two weeks at #8 on December 12th. It reached #2 in the RPM Adult Contemporary chart.

Parrot was an early adopter of stereo 45s, at a time when many of them were still mono, although it isn't noted on some of their labels.

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• Ginette
• Reno
• Beautiful
• Second
• Hand
• Man
• 1970
• Quebec
• Canadian
• easy
• listening
• pop

[Vortigern3]

Where can I find the lyrics to this? Some of them I can't figure out after all these years. Thanks.

[mojofilter02]

It looks like you have to buy the album to see the lyrics, because I can't find them anywhere on the web. If you tell me what parts you aren't understanding, maybe I can help.

[Vortigern3]

Sorry for the delay.

But then you came along with all those ...

Before one ....

But I'm telling you one thing (the rest I know)

[mojofilter02]

But then you came along with all those dated routines you used before

Worn-out, faded old daydreams by the score...

Hope that helps!

[RonRaddio]

Wow, I haven't heard this song in....gawd, I don't know how long. I had a crush on Ginette Reno when I was a kid!!  Thank you for posting this!!Do you have her heartwrenching song "Can't Get Hurt Anymore" ?

[mojofilter02]

Sorry, I have one other single of hers, but that's not it. I know she's made a ton of records, but I've only ever heard two that crossed over from AC to the pop charts around the same time.

[caressers]

Superb! Excellent vocals, score, etc. A perfect song.

[secordman]

Bradat what a memory jolt with your mention of "Will Everyone Here..." this all played on my parents' more square sounding radio, CFRB, the House of Warren.

[Cheessa]

This is one of my favorite songs from my childhood, listening to it in the mornings before heading off to school. 

Thnaks for sharing

[MARILYN19481]

RIP Roger Nolet, how you loved this song. You are gone but not forgotten.

[bobbbxxx]

I adore this woman and not only is she a spectacular singer, she is an accomplished actress, too. We don't see enough of her as she (or we) deserves.

[collinsjamesl]

Cancon or no cancon, this is just a great song! I love Ginette Reno.

This is one of my favourite Canadian songs from the early 70's. What a voice! What a hook! She's a delight to listen to (or watch) in an interview.

If you get a chance to hear Ginette's pop adult English album from the late 90's, "Love Is All," please do! Great stuff!

[jlfy502]

Greastest canadian singer of all time...she was way ahead of superstar Celine Dion but she decided not have that great international career of her own because she lacked that self-confidence refusing to acknowledge that she had that great talent to become the world's best singer of her time...but here in Québec we do know that she would have been the best of all...such a devine talent..Thanks Ginette...you made our lives much better!!

[vravon]

My father played this many years ago. Even as a kid, I liked it the second I heard it. I love Ginette Reno. She is a brilliant talent and I am proud to say she is Canadian! Yours truly, Vince Ravon. Canadian songwriter. Check out my song: Where I Belong, by Vince Ravon. It's on youtube.

[photoeng1]

CANCON. Whoda thought!

[photoeng1]

I remember when CANCON made the ruling. We thought music was dead! But in turn it created the opposite effect after a time because now you are hearing great Canadian music that you might never had the chance to listen to as much before. One of the very few rulings the Canadian goverment got right for the people!!!!

[petclark1]

Though it was deserving of all the airplay it got when this fantatstic tune came out in the fall of '70, looking back I wonder if it already somehat benefited from the Canadian content laws, cuase they suer as hell played it seeminly hourly on shows like The House of Warren, on CFBR, Toronto's utra-conservative AM station. Hell, they called themselves-

CFRB-Ontario's AUTHORITATIVE Newsvoice. I'm surprised the Harris Tories never stole that one!

[spacerazer]

RIP Roger Nolet... did he ever love this song as he was a second hand man