I’ve added more Paris Combo to the playlist. They are part of my excursion into more recent music, while remaing faithful to the Oh la la sound. Occasionally, you can catch some tunes close to chanson and sometimes, you’ll hear more modern sounds, such as the jazzy ones of Paris Combo.

On a different note, I’ve added some music by Tony Roman and Nanette Workman and Les Double Six.

Guuzbourg of Filles Sourires fame, a blog featuring all kinds of frauleins, kindly invited me to guest blog. I was all too happy to oblige with a first piece about Dalida. Future guest blogs will include non-retro femmes of the 70s and 80s, many of which I plan to learn more about. Filles Sourires likes all kinds of girls and that’s the best part.

For even more pictures of retro favourites and a visual taste of everything else, there’s always Blow Up Doll.

Facing this overwhelming collection of girls, Oh la la will continue to feature Retro rogues. Let the boys write about the girls and the girls write about the boys. How very retro!

This week features some musical additions by Sacha Distel, whose song “Scoubidou” coined the name of the gimp or ‘scoubies’ children still make today as trinkets. The story goes that in the 1950s a group of Distel’s fans bum rushed his hotel room and gave him some object made of electrical wire, which they called a ‘scoubidou’ in his honour. The singing of ‘scoubidou-bidou-aah’ you hear in the song ‘Scoubidou’ is a gallic version of ‘doobidoobidoo’, which you can hear in jazz music.

As of late, more music by Stefie Shock, Jacqueline Taïeb and Enzo Enzo. Talk about variety!