French version of Cigareets, Whiskey, and Wild, Wild Women

[Mitch Drumm]

The Sons Of The Pioneers had a hit in the 1940s with a Tim Spencer song "Cigareets, Whiskey, and Wild, Wild Women".

I recently came across a great version of the tune sung in French by an unidentified group.

Here it is:

http://picosong.com/nGV

Can anyone ID this group and tell me about when it was recorded??

[CrowBear Schmitt]

the fellows singin' on that tune are famous french music & movie stars
(many are deceased)
it was a tune in a movie & quite popular
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xawout ... isky_music

http://www.frmusique.ru/texts/c/constan ... pepees.htm

[Mitch Drumm]

Crowbear:

Thanks so much for that. I was secretly hoping you would come through.

Googling says it is Eddie Constantine, Jean Pierre Cassel, Claude François, Jean Yanne, and Sacha Distel.

The clip says it is from 1960, so maybe it is this film?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139944/

The odd thing about that clip is that the set looks like it was for a music video rather than part of a feature length film.

Edit:

I just located and bought an mp3 of another version of Eddie doing the song, but in this version he is the only vocalist. It may be from the 1950s.

[CrowBear Schmitt]

Eddie Constantine, Jean Pierre Cassel, Claude François, Jean Yanne, and Sacha Distel

yep ! that's them all right
4 are gone
(Claude François wrote " My Way" - Eddie Constantine was an exiled American )
could be that movie you mention Mitch

in the late 50s & up, the French came up w: this jukebox w: video clips called the " Scopitone "
i remember them from game arcades in New York in 64 !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopitone
many popular french & Intl artists had their tunes & clips up
http://scopitones.blogs.com/

http://scopitonearchive.com/

[Mitch Drumm]

CrowBear:

I well remember Scopitones and in fact dropped a bunch of quarters into them in my misspent youth to see the likes of Dion and Timi Yuro. In fact, I have several of them on my hard drive. You can find quite a few of them on the net. I did not know they were of French origin.

I have no idea what movie that Constantine clip is from. The credits on the video says 1960 and the IMDB says Eddie made the film I linked to in 1960, but I'm only guessing it is the source. That set used for "Cigareets, Whiskey, and Wild, Wild, Women" just doesn't look like part of a feature film, but Eddie looks about the right age, so I assume it is in fact from 1960, regardless of source.

Maybe you are implying the clip is a Scopitone? That would make sense, but I didn't realize they were around as early as 1960.