Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille

Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille ( dt It's five clock, Paris wakes up ) is a song by the French singer Jacques Dutronc from 1968. Chansons was in March 1968, a number -one hit in France.

Genesis

In a shared meal hit the then Vogue Chef Jacques Wolfensohn Jacques Ductronc and his friend Jacques Lanzmann, a well-known writer and journalist, before, "in the morning Paris " to write a song about and thereby to the song " Tableau de Paris à cinq heures du matin "(Eng. paintings / picture of Paris at five clock in the morning) to orient the writer Marc- Antoine -Madeleine Désaugiers from 1802.

Together with Lanzmann and his wife Anne Segalen himself Dutronc made ​​immediately start to write the text that was already done in the early hours of the following day. Then the recording followed in the recording studio, but were neither Dutronc still Lanzmann satisfied with the musical result. Until late into the night was further tried, but the results remained unsatisfactory - to the already then known classical flutist Roger Bourdin, the next door rehearsing in the studio, by chance came by and improvised a solo on his flute, and thus delivered the final version.

Content

The song describes various scenes that commented an early morning strolling through the city observer. In addition to different groups of people ( street sweeper, transvestites, strippers, commuters, bakers, workers ) may be mentioned the following places in this order:

The chorus cinq heures Il est, Paris s'éveille is a Alexandrians.

List of French number-one hits of 1968 Vogue (magazine) Luxor Obelisk Alexandrine Le Soir
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