Françoise Hardy is the second
studio album of the French popular singer
Françoise Hardy, released in October 1963 on
LP by French label
Disques Vogue (FH 1). She was accompanied by the Marcel Hendrix Orchestra.[1] Like Hardy's
previous album, the album was released with no title, except for her name on the cover; as such, album colloquially become known by the title of its most successful song, "Le Premier Bonheur du jour" ("The First Joy of the Day").
Except as noted, lyrics and music were written by Françoise Hardy.
"Le Premier Bonheur du jour" (lyrics: Franck Gérald; music: Jean Renard) – 1:53
"Va pas prendre un tambour" (lyrics: Maurice Vidalin; music:
Jacques Dutronc) – 2:50
"Saurai-je?" – 2:05
"Toi je ne t'oublierai pas" (lyrics: André Salvet, Claude Carrère; music: Jean-Pierre Bourtayre) – 2:24
"Avant de t'en aller" (original title: "Think About It", lyrics and music:
Paul Anka) – 1:57 First performed by: Paul Anka, 1963; French adaptation: Françoise Hardy
"Comme tant d'autres" – 2:35
"J'aurais voulu" – 2:10
"Nous tous" – 1:43
"L'Amour d'un garçon" (original title: "The Love of a Boy", lyrics:
Hal David; music:
Burt Bacharach) – 2:10 First performed by: Timi Yuro, 1962,[2] French adaptation: Françoise Hardy
"Le sais-tu ?" – 1:44
"L'Amour ne dure pas toujours" – 1:45
"On dit de lui" (original title: "It's Gonna Take Me Some Time", lyrics and music: Don Christopher, Don Stirling, Harold Temkin) – 2:42 First performed by:
Connie Francis, 1962,[3] French adaptation: Françoise Hardy[4]
^Published as a single, SP Liberty Records US (55519), 1962; collected on LP The Best of Timi Yuro, Liberty Records US (7286), 1963, CD The Best of Timi Yuro, EMI Records US (0777-7-80182-23), 1996.
^In-between, an instrumental version was recorded by the quintet Les Cyclones: EP Vogue (EPL 8117),1962 (their first 45 was recorded in 1961 under the name El Toro et les Cyclone; the group was then a quartet with guitarist
Jacques Dutronc).