ALL OVER THE WORLD

This collection presents some of the most interesting attempts by Françoise to cross over into different language markets during her tenure at the French Vogue label.
While it would be nice to have a box set that covered all of these multilingual efforts, this disc provides a nice overview (in English, German and Italian) and nabs the most essential efforts.
Five of the songs (7 - 8 - 10 - 12 - 15) are brand new songs, which Françoise Hardy never sang before in French. And the Italians "Parlami di te" and "La tua mano" can be included in any Hardy's Best Of.

Many of the tracks are completely different recordings than the French versions, rather than just having Hardy slap a new vocal track on the existing instrumentation. This provides many delights - the version of "Le Temps de l'amour" is much looser, and the version of "Le premier bonheur du jour" features an arguably far superior arrangement to the original French one.
Some tracks are simply new vocals on the familiar tracks, though. In the case of the Italian version of "Voila" it's welcome: while the version of this classic on the "Ma jeunesse fout le camp" CD is muddy mono, the Italian version here is the full, vibrant, remastered, glorious stereo this sound masterpiece deserves.