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Word: une (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Counterpoint & Cowpunching. Tall and blond, Hallyday comes on stage in a prim dark blue suit, picks at a pink guitar, swings his jelly hips, pokes his microphone suggestively at girls in the audience, and shouts: "Je cherche une fille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Pan Allee: Frere Johnny | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...cherche une fille!" the crowd roars back, and plainclothesmen throughout the hall go up onto the balls of their feet for fear the next quiver may start World War III. Singing easily, about half the time in English, he is more reserved than Presley ("I used to flop down on the floor, but I stopped that because I didn't think it was respectable"); but his diction is remarkably similar: somehow, in French, he has acquired a unique hillbilly accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Pan Allee: Frere Johnny | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

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