Sheila
Sheila (born Annie Chancel) was one of the more successful of the numerous young "ye-ye" girls to enjoy success with cheerfully insipid pop/rock in France in the early and mid-'60s. As little of her extensive discography is easy to find in the U.S., it's hard to make conclusive judgments about the scope of her artistic sweep. What you're likely to hear, however, is lightweight even by the lightweight standards of French rock from the time as a whole. Indeed, its relationship to bona fide rock is pretty casual; it's excessively bouncy, childish pop that happens to use some rock elements in the arrangements. Her early hits put the cuteness into overdrive with her irrepressible cheerful vocals often backed by chirpy choruses and whistling. The perfect soundtracks, in other words, for teenage girls to chew gum along with as they walked the boulevards in sailor outfits; they can't fail to bring to mind musical scenes of corny low-budget youth-oriented films of the era.
After a while Sheila did get into less innocuous sounds, largely by virtue of covers of American and British pop/rock tunes like "Do Wah Diddy Diddy," "Daydream," and "Bang Bang." Still, there was an inescapable sense of some of the songs being more suitable for fairground entertainment or Dixieland-based theatrical productions than for rock listeners. Pop singers tend to have longer careers in France than they do in English-speaking countries, however, and Sheila continued to record throughout the remainder of the 20th century. Indeed, she had some success in the disco era, collaborating with Chic at the end of the 1970s on "Spacer." Her impact in the U.S., however, was virtually nil, although somehow she did have an American LP release in 1964 with Sheila, the Ye-Ye Girl.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
Similar artists
-
Emshab (Tonight) - Persian Music
Wereldmuziek - Released by Caltex Records on 9 mrt. 2006
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
-
-
-
-
-
Sheila
Alternative en Indie - Released by Brandit Digital Media Services on 17 nov. 2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
-
Sheila
Alternative en Indie - Released by Brandit Digital Media Services on 17 dec. 2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
-
Note di Natale (14 canzoni per la più bella festa dell'anno)
Giovanni Caviezel, Sheila, Kiki
Kerstmuziek - Released by Dollswhip on 1 jan. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
-
-
Love Songs From Sheila (Vol. 4)
Wereldmuziek - Released by Universal Music Kenya Limited Distributed Labels on 1 jan. 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rumba Tikitan Tikiton (Remix)
Alternative en Indie - Released by dj diego flamenco music on 22 dec. 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Talkh O Shireen
Wereldmuziek - Released by MZM Production on 1 mei 1996
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Love Songs From Sheila
Wereldmuziek - Released by Universal Music Kenya Limited Distributed Labels on 1 jan. 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Afsoongar - Persian Music
Wereldmuziek - Released by Caltex Records on 6 jan. 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
-
Solo A Ti
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Advanced Audio Music on 6 jul. 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Kompilasi Religi Populer
Pop - Released by Rahmat Wijaya Record on 1 jan. 2013
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo