Home | Songs By Year | Songs from 1977


L'oiseau et l'enfant

Buy L'oiseau et l'enfant now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the song. And once you've experienced the song, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




"'L'oiseau et l'enfant'" (; "The Bird and the Child") was the winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977 performed in French by Marie Myriam, who represented . The song was composed by Jean-Paul Cara and written by Joe Gracy. This is currently the last song to have won for France.

The song was the eighteenth and final song performed on the night, following 's Dream Express with "A Million in One, Two, Three". At the close of voting, it had received 136 points, coming first in a field of eighteen. Myriam recorded the song in five languages; French, English (as "The Bird and the Child"), German ("Der Vogel und das Mdchen"), Spanish ("El zagal y el ave azul") and her mother tongue Portuguese ("A ave e a infncia").

During Preview Week, Myriam's music video showed her performing the song in an open-air atmosphere, in a section of the Square Ren Viviani in Paris. This preview video is notable for the prominent presence of the gendarmes having to restrain the crowd, some of whom having climbed the noted "oldest tree in Paris" to catch a glimpse of the singer. On the contest night, she performed in a floor-length orange gown while her five backup singers were clad in black.

It was succeeded as French representative at the 1978 contest by Jol Prvost with "Il y aura toujours des violons".

Covers



In 2016, the UNICEF project Kids United covered the song in their second album 'Tout le bonheur du monde'. The song also appeared on SNEP singles charts in August 2016.[http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Kids+United&titel=L%27oiseau+et+l%27enfant&cat=s KIDS UNITED - L'OISEAU ET L'ENFANT page]

A cover of the song was used in an advertisement for IKEA in Canada in 2021.

Charts performance



Sources



* [http://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-year/contest?event=293 Official Eurovision Song Contest site, history by year, 1977]

* [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1977fra Detailed info & lyrics, The Diggiloo Thrush, "L'oiseau et l'enfant".]

References



Category:Eurovision songs of France

Category:Eurovision songs of 1977

Category:French-language songs

Category:Eurovision Song Contest winning songs

Category:Polydor Records singles

Category:1977 songs

Category:Kids United songs


Buy L'oiseau et l'enfant now from Amazon

<-- Return to songs from 1977



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1099981861.