Mes Souvenirs de Saigon
Đồng Vọng 131523 · Paris, France
- Artist
- Gerard Addat
- Title
- Mes Souvenirs de Saigon
- Release
- Les Vagues du Mekong / Mes Souvenirs de Saigon
- Label
- Đồng Vọng # 131523
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- French
- Country
- Paris, France
- Songwriter
- G. Addat, J. Malja
- Genre
- Chanson · Chanson
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — European Songs
Les vagues du Mékong (Addat, Gerard) Mes souvenirs de Saïgon (Addat, Gerard) About the Vietnamese refugee crisis: "the boat people". French release. Late 70s?
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Black Đồng Vọng label, GA 131523, 45 tours, SACEM/SDRM, "Made in France". Face A: "Les Vagues du Mékong" (Trung-Quang / Huy-Nam), version française Gérard Addat. Face B: "Mes Souvenirs de Saïgon" (G. Addat - J. Malja). The picture sleeve front shows a sepia photograph of thatched stilt houses and sampans on the Mekong, titled "Les Vagues du Mékong – Gérard Addat" with the Đồng Vọng name. The back shows Addat in a dinner jacket and bow tie, with the text: "Français, né à Saïgon. Il rencontre un jour l'Association DONG VONG à Paris puis inspiré, il décide alors de chanter le VIETNAM et aussi pour ses amis des 'Boat-people'." It gives an enquiries address ("Renseignements : Ecrire à Le Hoang Minh (S.7), 22, avenue de Suffren, 75015 Paris") and carries a "S.E.E. Lafaury, Le Gérant" stamp. No running times are printed. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Gerard Addat, French singer-songwriter born in Saigon, French Indochina, to a French father and Vietnamese mother; repatriated to France as an adolescent at Vietnamese independence and raised in foster homes (Marseille, Vouvray, Tours). A polyglot performer of French, Portuguese/Brazilian and international repertoire whose songs draw on his Saigon childhood ('Une ville lointaine (Dakao-Saigon)', 'Un beau jour de fete (Le Tet)'). [Source: Le Petit Journal / Le Courrier du Vietnam / VOV World]