France Gall - Poupée de Cire, Poupée de Son - Vinyl Record

France Gall had been making records since she was sixteen, but everything changed in March 1965. Representing Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest, she sang Serge Gainsbourg's Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son, won the Grand Prix, and became a star across the continent overnight. She cut the title track in French, German, Italian and Japanese.

The song itself is sly in a way that its bounce disguises. Gainsbourg wrote a teenage singer a hit about being a doll singing words that are not her own, and Gall delivered it without blinking. He gave her Laisse Tomber Les Filles too, later reborn in English as Chick Habit, and that pairing put her at the front of the ye-ye scene next to Francoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan and Brigitte Bardot.

Critics at the time waved it off as disposable teen pop. Sixty years on it holds up better than most of what was praised instead. Part of Third Man's series of first authorized North American vinyl pressings of Gall's albums.

Side A
1. Poupee De Cire, Poupee De Son
2. Le Coeur Qui Jazze
3. Christiansen
4. Laisse Tomber Les Filles
5. Le Premier Chagrin D'amour
6. On T'avait Prevenue

Side B
1. Dis A Ton Capitaine
2. Sacre Charlemagne
3. Un Prince Charmant
4. Au Clair De La Lune
5. Nounours
6. Bonne Nuit