Francoise Hardy - Only Friends (ton meilleur ami)

Here is an impossible to find version of Ton Meilleur Ami. The English version. This is the very first song that I remember from a very young child. For some reason, I just loved this then... and I still do!. It stuck with me, and I always wanted to hear it again. I was delighted to find that I had it on an LP. Ms Hardy's accent is absolutely charming in this version. A French accent can be very pretty and this is an example. A rare gem in my opinion.

I was 4 years old when this came out, and I still remember the words... although I downloaded these. :)
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http://www.all-over-the-world.com/FrancoiseHardy/ly/index.html

1964


If we are only friends
Why do you kiss me like you do?
If we are only friends
Why do you hold me all night through?
Do the words "I love you"
Never come to your mind
Don't you know I love you?
Or is love really blind?

And every time we dance
When there is starlight up above
I wonder if by chance
You will discover this is love
Could we be as happy
As we both seem to be?
Could we be so happy
For the whole world to see if we are only friends?

All evening in your arms you hold me
'Til suddenly it's time to part
I wonder why you always hold me
So close to your heart

If we are only friends
Why don't you dance with someone new
And when the party ends
Why do I always leave with you
There's a happy ending
But on you that depends
And until you tell me
I can only say
We're just very good friends
We are only good friends
We're still very good friends.

Category:

Music

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• ton
• meilleur
• ami
• Francoise
• Hardy
• Paris
• YeYe
• Dutronc
• 60's
• Vartan
• Petula
• Clark

[julestheangel]

way back in the early sixties I bought an L.P called f. Hardy sings in english and so this song has very happy memories of my youth and I still adore all her songs many years L8R. !!!

[Amanzi1]

For some reason, this song had been lost. I had to really hunt to find it. This was the first song I really remember as a young child. I just had to find it :)

[jondavi123]

Wonderful song and artist. Loved her music from the time i first her at the age of 7. Great post, thanks.

[Amanzi1]

You are welcome.. from my earliest childhood too. I never forgot this song, and it took me a long time to find it in English.

[cricketbat08]

Sounds much better sung in French, but her accent is charming!

[kiwkee]

sweetly serene

[psychomajic666]

@cricketbat08 I dig the part where she sings a line from this one on the medley with her, Sylvie and Petula.

[robdaggersfan]

Francoise sings on the second line, 'If we are only friends why do you hold me all night through'. That's what we did in the 60's. We believed in love and could hold our girl all night through with no thought of 'Humping'. That could wait until we were married. I married my girl 41 years ago and I still 'hold her all night through'.

[robdaggersfan]

I bought the 45 single of Only friends in 1964 when I was 19 and have never tired of it. It is my favourite song of Francoise and that beautiful French accent is so wonderful to listen to. She has a quiet, sensual voice, and a classic beauty that made many a young boy fall for her. And she remains to this day a beautiful woman.

[shahdan61]

Listening to this song is like walking down memory lanes of the sixties. Her voice is sweet and showing much that she is French when she sings in English. I was in the early teens and loved singing this very song.

[thretoris]

Does she really sing 'hump' in the second line?

[kaharrison15]

If we are just friends why do you humo me whole night through? 00:18 seconds ;)

[raph8c]

When I was a little kid my cousin played it from the record he bought in the early late 60s or 70s. Then it was 20 years later, one day I realized I can find songs using internet now. So I asked from my Becky email client mailing list and someone from Europe burn me a cd full of her songs, including this English version.... Nostalgic..

[MisterValance]

Beautiful. Thank you.

[MsMotownSoul]

Who wouldn't want to kiss and hold Francoise? :-)