- Bo le lavabo
Single infobox |
Name = Bo le lavabo (WC Kiss)
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Artist =Lagaf'
from Album = Le Lavabo
Released = March 1990
Format =CD Single
7" maxi
12" maxi
Recorded = 1989
Genre = House
Length = 3:50
Label =
Writer =Lil Louis
B. Bayle
Lagaf'
Producer =
Certification = Gold France, 1990
Chronology = Lagaf' singles
Last single =
This single = "Bo le lavabo (WC Kiss)"
(1990)
Next single = "La Zoubida "
(1991)"Bo le lavabo (WC Kiss)" is a 1990
novelty song recorded by the French TV presenter and humoristLagaf' .Background and writing
In one of his variety sketches, the humorist Vincent Lagaf' (Vincent Rouil), who featured on several TV programs in the 1980s and 1990s, commented on the easiness of "producing" a hit during the house period, in which the music, yet repetitive, manages to make forget the words, reduced to a bare and trivial content. The sketche meeting a great success, a
vinyl record was finally released. And against all odds, this unpretentious and ironic single managed to reach number one on French Singles Chart [Elia Habib, "Muz hit. tubes", 2002, p. 185,6 (ISBN 2-9518832-0-X)] !Lyrics are very poor. In it, Lagaf' explains that, for producing a hit every year, changing the words is enough : the first year, we can sing "il est beau le lavabo" ("the sink is beautiful"), the second year, "il est laid le bidet" ("the bidet is ugly"), and the third year, we made a words mix.
The music uses a sample recorded by
Lil Louis for its song "French Kiss", released in 1989.After this amazing success, Lagaf' released a new single, the following year, "La Zoubida", which was even more successful than "Bo le lavabo (WC Kiss)" (number one for 11 weeks) ["La Zoubida", French Singles Charts [http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Lagaf%27&titel=La+zoubida&cat=s Lescharts.com] (Retrieved
December 26 ,2007 )] .Chart performances
In
France , the single debuted at the bottom of the chart on March 24, 1990. It progressed steadily in the chart, even if sometimes lost a few places, and eventually reached #1, on June 16. It remained only a single week at the top of the chart but stabilized in the top 10 for a total of 18 weeks. It left the Top 50 on September 29, after its 28th week. The single was certified Gold disc by theSNEP , the French certificator, for more than 400,000 copies soldCertifications of Lagaf's singles [http://www.chartsinfrance.net/certifications/artiste-655.html Chartsinfrance.net] (RetrievedDecember 26 ,2007 )] .
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