Les Charlots Once Upon a Time at the Olympia concert hall (1969)

 

Les Charlots (Gérard Rinaldi, Gérard Filipelli, Luis Rego, Jean Sarrus, Jean-Guy Fechner) 

1967: Les Charlots at the Olympia: Les Plaies-bois - Les Chachatypiques – “This Summer, it was You”, “Charlots pub's”, “She had Hair on Her Belly”,  “I Say Anything, I Do Everything I'm Told”, “Marcel is Back” or “The Return of Marcel”, Love With You”, “Under the Flags”. “Der Noël von Scharlots”, “Relax”, “She Won the Wooden YoYo From Japan with the String of the Same Metal. 1969: “Once Upon a Time at the Olympia: Introduction”, “She Won the Wooden Yoyo from Japan With the String of the Same Metal”,  “Der Noël Von Scharlots”, “Saint-Rock”, “New Charlots Pub's”, “Once Upon a Time in the South”, “Nonsense”, “Be Erotic”,  “Paulette The Queen of Paupiettes”, “Berry Blues”

The success of this 1969 album prompted the Charlots to make an announcement in 1976 that they would do a western project entitled"Les Charlots in the Wild West" / "The Tamps in the Wild West", rather than "The Chaplins/The Charlies in the Far West".

It was to be directed by Claude Zidi who wanted John Wayne to co-star and shoot it in the United States. Wyane had just made "The Shootist" in July of 1976 and died in 1979. The project was abandoned when the Charlots and their producer Christian Fechner (brother ofband member Jean-Guy Fechner) had a falling out that year.

By Michael Ferguson

[Images courtesy John Lamontage]