Posted on 07/30/2010 10:34:48 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
You know “Ca Plane Pour Moi”, that wacky punk song Chevy Chase and his family inched through the Louvre to in National Lampoon’s European Vacation? That tune’s been the calling card of one-man Euro New Wave act Plastic Bertrand for decades now, his ace in the hole if he ever got a parking ticket or met a cute young intern. Alas, “Ca Plane” is Plastic Bertrand’s ace no more—today the singer was forced to admit he Milli Vanilli’d that shizzle.
It turns out record producer Lou Deprijck sang the version of “Ca Plane Pour Moi” we all know and love. Deptrijk began legal proceedings to get proper credit for the song in 2006; this week, a linguist ruled in court that certain inflections in “Ca Plane’s” original recording could only have been made by a person from France’s Picard region, i.e. not Mr. Bertrand (who hails from Brussels). This forced Plastic, real name Roger Jouret, to finally come clean today about his worldwide deception and disillusion to about a million aging New Wavers.
Of course, PB claims he only agreed to clam up about the whole thing for money and that he’s the real victim because he was “manipulated” by Deprijck, but how can we trust anything he ever says again? Et tu, Plastic? We didn’t tolerate this from Rob and Fab, and we sure ain’t gonna tolerate it from you!
Hear it here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001B8182E/ref=dm_dp_trk2?ie=UTF8&qid=1280510718&sr=1-27
Singer, schminger.
I’m going to re-record this as a concerto for kazoo, accordian, and vuvuzela section.
Wow.....that’s not the least bit annoying.
Life as we know it is over.
It’s one tough earworm I tell ya.
This will put an end to Plastics career ... er ...
It makes him one of the most famous French mimes ever!
My mind is a cauldron of useless 1970s new wave trivia.
Wikipedia has it both ways
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Boy,_Jet_Girl
“Jet Boy, Jet Girl” has the same backing track as the original Plastic Bertrand’s/Lou Deprijck “Ça Plane Pour Moi”; some months after “Ca plane pour moi” was recorded, the record firm used the same masters with the same musicians to edit “Jet Boy, Jet Girl”.
“Jet Boy, Jet Girl” is a risqué song by Elton Motello about a 15-year-old boy’s sexual relationship with an older man, who then rejects him for a girl. With its chorus of “ooh ooh ooh ooh, he gives me head,” it has been embraced as something of a gay punk anthem.
“...but judging by the emails I receive, my lyric has touched many more people and seems to ring a chord in many more hearts than the French one will ever do.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87a_Plane_Pour_Moi
“Ça plane pour moi” is a song by Plastic Bertrand issued as a single in December 1977. The song has the same melody as “Jet Boy, Jet Girl”, recorded previously in November 1977 by Elton Motello with the same musicians.
Don’t forget bagpipe.
Oh, and here’s something else from France (just the music):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq—Nw
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