Listen to ‘Voix’ by Guy Chatelain & Herve Roy (Telemusic Library, TM 3016, France, 1971).

Summer is certainly over, once and for all, but that hasn’t managed to shake me out of the habit of listening to summery songs that are mercifully free of lyrics. There is a wonderful pop sensibility running through this charming record and I particularly like the inclusion of male voices alongside the more standard female chorus. It makes it sound like boys and girls having some nice clean fun together. I’m sure they did. After all, they are French.

This is one of those library records that has the usual quota of tracks clocking in at the 2+ minute mark, but for those of us that have shorter attention spans there is also a 30 second bite size rendition of each tune. If you find yourself in a real hurry however, you could just jump straight to the ‘goldfish versions’ that only last 15 seconds each.

Finally, this is probably the last wordless vocal record that I will be spinning for a while as I am trying hard not to wreck my marriage.