{"id":95,"date":"2006-08-05T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T08:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/?p=95"},"modified":"2006-08-05T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T08:53:41","slug":"95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Cloclo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-right: .5em; margin-bottom: .5em; float: left;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/images\/cloclo2.jpg\" alt=\"Claude Fran&#231;ois\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claude_Fran\u00e7ois\">Claude Fran&#231;ois<\/a>, French singer of Egyptian origin, sung great numbers like the disco hit &#8216;Alexandrie, Alexandra&#8217;, covers such as &#8216;Dis lui&#8217; (Tell him) and is revered for his ballad &#8216;Comme d&#8217;habitude&#8217;, which was turned into &#8216;My Way&#8217; by <strong>Paul Anka<\/strong> for <strong>Frank Sinatra<\/strong> et al. The latter is featured in the French film <a href=\"http :\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Podium_(film)\">Podium<\/a>, starring Belgian actor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beno\u00eet_Poelvoorde\">Beno&#238;t&nbsp;Poelvoorde<\/a>, who plays a Claude&nbsp;Fran&#231;ois imitator. The really cool thing about &#8216;Comme d&#8217;habitude&#8217; is that it was once performed as a duet with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petula_Clark\">Petula&nbsp;Clark<\/a> on television, but in the film, they remove Petula, add the imitator and mix the song so that both Claudes are singing the duet.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Claude Fran&#231;ois is kitschy and deceased, but still has a major following. In the film, the actors join in an actual procession to commemorate his death. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude Fran&#231;ois, French singer of Egyptian origin, sung great numbers like the disco hit &#8216;Alexandrie, Alexandra&#8217;, covers such as &#8216;Dis lui&#8217; (Tell him) and is revered for his ballad &#8216;Comme d&#8217;habitude&#8217;, which was turned into &#8216;My Way&#8217; by Paul Anka for Frank Sinatra et al. The latter is featured in the French film Podium, starring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oh-la-la.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}