Tu es le soleil de ma vie

Two videos here that are very worth sharing, especially since I am the Sacha Distel of the south. Apart from the being dead thing. And smashing a Porsche during a sex act in the car.
   The first is Sacha and ex-girlfriend Brigitte Bardot, before the world figured out she was a right-wing freak. Sacha figured out she wasn’t the girl for him when he found her in bed with another bloke. Not a good look. But, time heals, and the two of them perform that famous song, ‘Le soleil de ma vie’.
   But the trade mark song is ‘La belle vie’, which Sacha wrote in the 1960s. The English lyrics, ‘The Good Life’, came before the French ones and were popularized by Tony Bennett. But here’s the dude who wrote the song singing it.
   I remember during the (French) heat wave in 2003, Sacha had a bit of a revival, including a local version of This Is Your Life. Every channel I turned to, there he was, singing ‘La belle vie’. It was a bit weird, since it was my own trade mark song of sorts around that time. Hearing the master do it, however, makes me look like an American Idol loser.
   Enjoy these two, in a purer, pre-Spice Girls time.