Siffler sur la colline - Joe Dassin - Live at RTS with English Subtitles - 1968

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SIFFLER SUR LA COLLINE:
Joe Dassin stands out from the trend, indeed, in 1968, it was rather the songs that advocated youth, sexual freedom and free love that were in full swing. He decides to sing a rake, lived in the country, a wind taken by a pretty country girl who did not want him, but whom he wanted so much.
"Siffler sur la collune" is the French adaptation of the Italian song "Uno Tranquillo" by singer Riccardo Del Turco. The French lyrics are written by Jean Michel Rivat, the French version is very different from the Italian version.
Joe Dassin tells his story which takes place in a rural setting, nature is dominant. The artist is fascinated by the landscape, but especially by a pretty woman whom he approaches. The latter does not share the same interest in our artist, and sends him whistling up a hill and asks him to wait there.
Naive, see childish, Joe Dassin obeys her request, he goes to the top of the hill and begins to whistle "Zai zai zai zai", he waits for his sweetheart, but the latter stands him up. She does not come, leaving him to whistle alone in nature, like a helpless bird.
The lyrics of the song are incredibly naive, they are also imbued with a touch of humour that relaxes the atmosphere. Joe Dassin does not cry over his fate; he is content to whistle until the gimmick becomes very well known. Indeed, Fabrice Caro is inspired by it to create a comic book titled “Zai zai zai zai. »
g was performed by Joe Dassin during TF1's first color show on December 20, 1975, for the show Number One. It is one of his most successful song.

JOE DASSIN:
Joseph Ira Dassin; 5 November 1938 – 20 August 1980) was an American–French singer-songwriter and actor. He was the son of film director Jules Dassin.
Dassin was born in New York City to American film director Jules Dassin (1911–2008) and Béatrice Launer (1913–1994),[1] a New York-born violinist, who after graduating from a Hebrew High School in the Bronx studied with the British violinist Harold Berkely at the Juilliard School of Music. His father was of Ukrainian-Jewish and Polish-Jewish extraction, his maternal grandfather was an Austrian-Jewish immigrant, who arrived in New York with his family at age 11.
Dassin lived in New York City and Los Angeles until his father fell victim to the Hollywood blacklist in 1950, at which time his family moved to Europe.
Between the ages of ten and fifteen Dassin changed schools eleven times. He studied at, among other places, the International School of Geneva and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, and finished his secondary education in Grenoble. Dassin moved back to the United States, where he attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1957 to 1963, winning an undergraduate Hopwood Award for fiction in 1958 and earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1961 and a Master of Arts in 1963, both in Anthropology.
Career
Moving to France, Dassin worked as a technician for his father and appeared as an actor in supporting roles, among others in three movies directed by his father, including Topkapi (1964) in which he played the role of Josef.
On 26 December 1964, Dassin signed with CBS Records, making him the first French-language singer to be signed with an American record label.
By the early 1970s, Dassin's songs were at the top of the charts in France, and he became immensely popular there. He recorded songs in German, Spanish, Italian, and Greek, as well as French and English. Amongst his most popular songs are "Les Champs-Élysées" (Originally "Waterloo Road") (1969), "Salut les amoureux" (originally "City of New Orleans") (1973), "L'Été indien" (1975), "Et si tu n'existais pas" (1975), and "À toi" (1976).