![]() ![]() New York singer and songwriting piano man Billy Joel posed the important question “Parlez-vous français?” in #4 charting 1980 hit “Don’t Ask Me Why”.īlondie’s Debbie Harry was never shy about singing in French and proceeded to on several tracks including 1980 number one smash and third biggest song of the year, “Call Me” (appelle-moi, mon cherie). This is ironic since, as an officially bilingual nation, Canadians would have much more credibility in adding a dash of the Eiffel lingo. While artists from the United States and United Kingdom were gracing their hit songs with French phrases, Canadian Anglophones seemed hesitant to do so. The inclusion of French verses in English language songs has always been with us (after all, the two countries share a border and have shared royalty), but it became particularly trendy in the early 1980s.
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