nino ferrer, vol. 6 - les cornichons / sottilette kraft commercial

in this little known commercial from around the early seventies, you can see nino ferrer acting and hear an instrumental of his song "les cornichons / il baccalà".

the original song about a picnic gone awry is beautifully illustrated in this music video clip - preserving the original idea while not slavishly reproducing it literally.

surprisingly the clip is directed by infamous italian director ruggero deodato of "cannibal holcaust" fame.

nino ferrer, vol. 5 - alexandre

in this post you will find the rare spanish language version of nino ferrer's song "alexandre" and an english language version by german band the boots, called "alexander" (to be found on the excellent german sixties compilation "the in-kraut 66-74").

nino ferrer, vol. 4 - mirza

so, this is my fourth nino ferrer related post. this time there are two cover versions of hit single "mirza" - the first one by portugese (or brazilian?) band conjunto oliveira muge, the second a parody by suzanne gabriello, called "z'avez pas lu kafka". this song - as far as i understand it - replaces the lost dog "mirza" from the original with the question if you had read something by franz kafka.

here you can see and hear the original by nino ferrer.

monkiss

nino ferrer avec les gottamou - avec toi j'ai compris le monkiss
gemelle kessler - monkiss

in 1966, nino ferrer recorded an e.p. with les gottamou. all four songs on this record deal with "monkiss", which seems to be some kind of dance. the song "avec toi j'ai compris le monkiss" was subsequently covered by german kessler twins who were very popular in italy at the time, their italian version simply called "monkiss" (originally posted on the schlocker blog).

erasmo carlos - deixa de banca

this song by brazilian singer erasmo carlos is a portugese-language cover of the james booker / nino ferrer song "les cornichons". it can be found on his 1967 album "você me acende". hope you like it.

james booker - big nick

this instrumental by new orleans jazz musician james booker from around 1961 was later covered by french-italian singer nino ferrer. adding lyrics, it became one of his most famous songs under the title "les cornichons" (italian version: "il baccalà"). it was covered by the likes of mina and recently by mareva galanter.