Lovely and cheering Sheila singing live on a main TV broadcast. "Samson et Dalila", a basic & good-hearted tune for folks. Another cover from Glasgow's band Middle Of The Road.
Oddly enough, this TV cut seems older than the MoR one to be found on YouTube elsewhere...
One other better-known cover was the cosmic "Les rois mages", but with this Samson it can be said that the original MoR was slightly better... (NOT considering the Sheila-Estardy STUDIO piece, a very likeable record, quite close to original and, as often with Sheila 'at least' as good...)
Here is a 100% live performance however, with the house orchestra playing, and a rather left-out sound mix. So the comparison stops.
The tone of this song is very light, end-of-ball kind, reaching and gathering all, easy and cute. About those pros and cons of being faithful y'know, the Biblical way, or not.
na na na na naaa, na na nah na na....
la la la la laaaa, ...
The second one is more serious, about worldwide brotherhood and equality.
And SHEILA's voice fills the house again, ours again, spotless, plain and youthful for this quasi-historical slice of fresh & honest popular fun.
(aaah, old TV)
Remorselessly...
So boost up the bass and medium too, as is required besides our well-geared SHEILA on the loose, to get musical instruments back into the picture...
She was now a full star with recent record breaking sales, and a brand new image, years after being simply 'on top' for the 60's turbulent youth, singing girly yéyé twists and 'rocks' ,+ mainstream songs of various quality and genre. (along with Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday and Claude François, Jacques Dutronc and Françoise Hardy too.)
This was also just after the Apollo-like launch of "Les rois mages", still raving continental charts and circling atop everybody's minds at the time : the new song following, yet unable to replace, that previous one then. (it would take the 1972-3 "Poupée de porcelaine" to really 'clunch the gear on', for an era of steady stardom), aimed at wide popular employ again, from an already most well-known, ten years old confirmed 'young' singer raising general craze by then...
Hard working as always, and easy, experienced, also recently well in love ; so confident, with more successes to come no doubt soon.
(search for "Les rois mages" - not to forget her contemporary "Los reyes magos" version that was shaking the whole Hispanic world - : the b/w 'mad stage' one, + a must-see 'intellectual's interview', stunning by its open mockery on her and... her legs !!!, her bare legs, AAAAA miss-universe-class (yes!) as a reply... + level headed humour from she and a surrealistic dissert on "stuffed sweets" vs "acidulate sweets" (she once was saling on market places with her parents), then this magic song of course...)
(Also, simply appreciate the well-known 'scopitone' film found here in YT.)
"Les rois mages" that propelled her up to exclusive commercial heights, that only Cloclo would share in the coming years (give or take one Dalida or two).
Samson et Dalila came next and as one can see is guaranteed to please, if of no social avant-guarde really, but does remain into one's ears.
Eyes ?
Yet I do not consider this one among Sheila's mains, pleasant as it may be...
More serious matter was to come afterwards, more carefully tailored yet ultra popular products, that she carried with equal 'soundness', about a dozen huge hits (really huge, setting new standards here, 'ice-cream category') all of them highly enjoyable.
Throughout a few classical years, until her 'US-based' (quotes required...) disco departure and meteoric extra-run, closing it all beautifully, much better known the world over... (Although the first batch of songs were actually penned by false Americans but real Parisians !, like "Gimme Your Loving", "Love Me Baby", "I Don't Need a Doctor (I love him)", "No No No No", "You Light My Fire"... ), the 'second wave' being the famous CHIC production... where she succeeded mightily, again.
See "Sheila B Devotion" for educational purposes...
This disco-worldwide episode ending perfectly those 70's of Sheila's true fame, reign, and timeless contributions.
1972, here.
Do not miss what came next...
Second song is an ode to 'the colours of the world'... A (rarissime!!) 'politic' one : "Blancs Jaunes Rouges Noirs." (antiracist) Sheila would put anything through. And does !
The backing vocals can be suspected of being the excellent girl quartet "les Fléchettes", of well established Parisian repute then, hélas hardly audible here buried in the sound-mix, but more present in the second song.
Color would have been welcome for this video capture, but, as the great majority was watching b/w then...
(ad. : A fine color slide of her, obviously taken on the very day of this show ('in the house' probably, wearing stage clothes), can be seen at http://ondit.unblog.fr/files/2008/02/19721.jpg .)
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4:29 she sings about Rio de Janeiro and carnival!!
renatopianta 1 year ago
@renatopianta
Yes the second song is about world brotherhood and equality of races on the planet. It is called "Blancs Jaunes Rouges Noirs." The theme is so common and obvious nowadays but was more 'modern' then.
She has sentences about hunters in the great icy lands, poor fishers in Shangaï (yes..) and among others, people in Brazil preparing for the Carnival in fever all year long.
It is a bit easy but it is fine.
The studio versions of both songs, however are so great you 'd cry.
lOmnivoreSobriquet 1 year ago
Retrouvez l'histoire illustrée de Sheila en français sur ces deux sites :
"ondit" (le plus exhaustif, avec en plus rappels des productions Carrère et classements discographiques français complets des ventes pour chaque trimestre de 1963 à 89...)
"tendersilenceofthenight" (le plus 'fashion', + posters, documents divers, extraits disco etc.)
Ces deux mots entrés dans des moteurs de recherche vous amènent aux sites directement.
Merci à eux !!!!!
lOmnivoreSobriquet 2 years ago
Et pour les discussions, courtoises, ça se passe sur le forum :
"SHEILA Jamais sans vous".
lOmnivoreSobriquet 2 years ago
Egalement, le site :
"sheila-unehistoiredamour", qui combine un bon historique et d'excellentes vidéos...
lOmnivoreSobriquet 2 years ago
"Sheilahome", également.
Superbe.
lOmnivoreSobriquet 2 years ago