School is over!!!!!
A school bell rings and the joyous sounds of yé-yé ring out across the arirwaves. What could be more in keeping with the teenage experience than the joy that the end of the school day brings? And what could be better for launching the career of possibly the biggest yé-yé chanteuse of them all? Claude Carrère had been a singer during the fifties but had struggled to make a name for himself in the competitive French music hall circuit. His first EP release in 1957 had been headlined by a cover of the country favourite "Cigareets, Whuskey And Wild, Wild Women" ("Ciagrettes, whisky et p'tites pépées") but had been uncermoniously buried in the wake of hit versions by Eddie Constantine and Anie Cordy, both stars whose light shone considerably brighter than Carrère's flickering flame. The sleeve of his second release played on his youthful appearance (belying the fact that he was 26 years old) and tried to hint at a power that wasn't really in the grooves ...