After a post-Christmas shopping spree at the nearby French music enclave of Brussels, I’ve added some tunes by Jean Constantin, Francoise Hardy, Claude François and Jeanne Moreau.

The music at Oh La La may be retro, but the technology is definitely modern. A Radio Oh La La podcast, Franco a gogo, is in the works; first some legalities need to be settled. In fact, podcasts are much like the twist or mash potato: everbody’s doin’ it.

I also wrote another piece over at Filles Sourires about the duet Dents de lait, dents de loup, sung by Serge Gainsbourg and France Gall exactly 39 years ago today (pure coincidence, I assure you).

An actress who did some singing, Anna Karina is part of the collection of women who have sung music written by Serge Gainsbourg as well as with him. Enjoy the freshly translated blurb by yours truly about her singing career on Wikipedia (link above). Some of her songs on Radio Oh La La include “Roller Girl” and “Petite Lola”.

Interesting bits of trivia: She was a mould for the character of Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) in the film Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino. She does look like Audrey Hepburn (or vice versa).

Happy Holidays! I want to thank everyone for listening and linking to Radio Oh La La, you’ve really made my year. In 2006, I’ll be featuring more music and more articles as well as keep you posted on some French music projects I have in the works.

At the moment, there are a few Christmas songs in the playlist, although purely as decoration. I have also recently added some new numbers from unusual suspects such as Lisa Ekdhal and Dee Dee Bridgewater.