Lucky Blondo -Va savoir pourquoi[Gentle on My Mind]

The beautiful french version of the Popular country song Gentle on My Mind. Gentle on My Mind" is a song written by John Hartford,which won four 1968 Grammy Awards. Hartford won the award for Best Folk Performance and Best Country & Western Song (Songwriter). The other two awards Best Country & Western Solo Vocal Performance, Male and Best Country & Western Recording, went to American country music singer Glen Campbell for his version of Hartford's song. The song was released in June 1967 as the only single from the album of the same name. It was re-released in July 1968 to more success. Glen Campbell's version has received over 5 million plays on the radio. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind" as the theme to his television variety show, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour between 1969 and 1972. Dean Martin's version, recorded in 1968, was a major hit in the United Kingdom; three versions of the song, Campbell's, Martin's and Patti Page's, all reached the top ten of the U.S. easy listening chart in 1968. The song was ranked number 16 on BMI's Top 100 Songs of the Century. The french version is wonderful and even the lyrics are completely different. Translation of the song in English. Find out why,or go know why I was hard, hard as iron I didn't cry when I made my mother cry The education I received It was often kicking in the ass As soon as I knew how to hold a pencil I covered every wall of my concrete city with insults {Chorus:} So go find out why man Always complains about his fate Wherever it comes from From birth to death? Try to imagine A fairy tale in the age of rockets At sixteen I was a rocker In jeans in a white Rolls with driver I was assaulted by completely hysterical girls Like a President, I didn't go out without my cops {au Chorus} The fame, the Rolls, the girls, the cash At twenty I had given everything back to the tax authorities I was planted like my ancestor On the Mount of Olives of show business I didn't understand what was happening to me When I had to shut my mouth Like a grown-up I died in a corner all alone {to Chorus:} I was hard, hard as iron Today I cry when I see my mother cry More than ten years ago, that everything happened The King is dead and I am buried If I regret something from the past It's not the glory, it's my young years A little about Lucky Blondo, Lucky Blondo (born Gerard Blondiot 23 July 1944 in Paris, France) is a French singer who was popular in the 1960s. His heyday came during the emergence of French rock. His main successes were "Sheila", "Baby Face", "Dix petits indiens", "Sur ton visage une larme" (a French version of the song "Una lacrima sul viso" by Bobby Solo), and "Des roses rouges pour un ange blond". He is one of the few French singers to have performed, in 1977, 33 tours in Nashville with The Jordanaires, the vocal group that sang with Elvis Presley. In 1978, still in Nashville, he recorded an album of covers entitled Ce vieux cow boy, including, in particular, "Une santé dacier" and "On ne t'oubliera jamais". He then worked in advertising, before returning to singing in 2006 for a retro show. He lives in Audierne, a seaside city in southern Finistère, where he lived in the mid-1970s