White Soxx - Versailles (1981) The making of

White Soxx - Versailles

The songwriter/ musicians Frederic Mercier and Fabrice Cuitad tell about this great song!

Lyrics:
Here is the story that I heard some years ago.
Two Ladies needed holidays.
The Driver took them for a trip to Paris,
(they) look(ed) baffled down on River Seine
and from the coach they saw the Palace of Versailles
where King Louis was name(d) 'Sun' .
No need for gather, they want(ed) to be on their own,
(It) could take them hours, but oh what fun,
oh Versailles
Versailles

Now, as they looked at paintings of that King and Queen,
they found themselves locked in a room,
when suddenly one painting moved, just like real...

Don't tell them lies
He said
Don't move

But the two Ladies couldn't help but noticing,
under the frame there was a hole
Above the stairs they could hear some sweet music,
A giant place where they all sang

Versailles

Will you believe me when I tell you that they were
expecting the invitation?
The Dance was faster than they felt, but no fear
wish sure I could ease you just that one.
But at the windows at the age-old stables,
some lackeys were buzzing around.
The horses ready for a ride in the stagecoach.
The music stops, here is the 'Sun' , King of

Versailles
doot doot doot, doot de de de doot
Versailles
doot doot doot, doot de de de doot

Teacher, teacher, teacher
you don't tell all the truth
or if it was like this, you got to tell all the end
No, no..

Teacher, teacher, teacher
you don't tell all the truth
or is if it was like this, you got to tell all the end
tell all the end...

It's just the story that I heard some years ago
Two Ladies needed holidays.
The Driver took them for a trip to Paris,
(they) look(ed) baffled down on River Seine
and from the coach they saw the Palace of Versailles
where King Louis was name(d) 'Sun' .
No need for gather, they want(ed) to be on their own,
(It) could take them hours, but oh what fun,


Oh Versailles
doot doot doot, doot de de de doot
One more..
Versailles..

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[DaveMcKeownmusic]

so cool to see this after all these years....I loved this song back then....it got quite a lot of airplay on late night radio in Northern Ireland at the time but I just couldn't buy it anywhere

[tattiepicker1]

I bought this record in the summer of 1980, I absolutely loved it. I always thought it was written because of the TV play 'Mrs Morrison's Ghosts' which was based on the book. I also remember it being played on radio 1, and I think I remember Frederic being interviewed on that station. Can anyone confirm this please?

[grumpyjeremy]

@norwind I too heard this song - once - on a radio channel called Mercia Sound. John Warwick was one of the DJs on Mercia. I missed the name of the performer, and it became a mystery to me because there was something haunting about it (I think it's the synthesizer sound) - I asked people if they'd heard it too and nobody had. Nearly 30 years on, I chanced a search with the title on Youtube and there it was. And now this!

[apache30]

this is a work of genius, release it again

[Queenforumnl]

You both say that it was a flop and that you were forgotten, but I bet there lots more people out there who just LOVE this song like we writers here do!

Hearing the music can make you see Versailles like it is: beautifull!

[SylviaBos66]

Wat heb ik hier lang naar gezocht. Een geweldig ongeëvenaard nummer!!!

[norwind]

Remember Hearing this on my local radio station in the summer of 1980 by much loved and missed presenter John Warwick

[Raidoman]

I think, at the time (long ago), I only heard this song once or twice in my life. But it was different from most pop songs, had an interesting theme to it, and something of a mini-opera story inside. So it stuck in my head somehow, as some songs do. Decades later I tried to find it again; it was one of the hardest MP3's to find on the entire Internet! SO rare...

Not a commercial succes, but still somehow it's now an 'Underground Classic'. Frederic and Fabrice, merci, still a good job!

[Hombrewrx]

Really strange this is not a hit! What a nice remembers hearing this song!!

[steveh310]

I don't know why this wasn't a massive hit in the uk. I loved it from first hearing it, and the writers deserved huge success