How come nobody ever told me about France Gall?

This post does not really have anything to do with Dirty Dancing.

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I never heard of France Gall until yesterday, when I happened to run across a video of her singing.

She was born in Paris in 1947 in Paris (she was about a year younger than Baby Houseman). She became a a popular European singer in the mid-1960s. She recorded her first hit song in 1964 and won the Grand Prize in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965. She continued to perform until 1996, when she was 49 years old.

She sang in the French, German and Spanish languages.

While dopey Americas was going crazy about the British Invasion, the wiser French, Germans and Spaniards were going crazy about France Gall and the other Yé-yé singers.

If someone will make a movie called Cutesy Yé-Yé Singing, then I will write a blog about it.