Good year for cool threads, 1966. The chap who looks like he needs a a week's sleep and a good go with the Optrex is Jacques Dutronc, and he's a megastar in the French-speaking world, apparently. He's been in films and he married toothsome (I've never known what that means, really - edible?) chanteuse Francoise Hardy in 1981.
For "Et Moi, et Moi" Dutronc seems to have borrowed a riff from the Solomon Burke classic, "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love", with which the Rolling Stones used to open their concerts:
In turn, Mungo Jerry anglicised "Et Moi, et Moi", and took the resulting record, "Alright, Alright, Alright", to No. 3 in the UK:
I've listened to some of Jacques' other platters, but the best I could come up with is this one, which sounds a bit like the much later "Jean Jeanie" (it starts out okay, but he rapidly runs out of ideas):
Anyway, I love "Et Moi, et Moi" - and I had a brief hunt for other French gems from the '60s, but couldn't find any. What I did find was this, from 1961:
Still, mustn't laugh - it's no worse than a lot of the crap we were producing at the time.
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