Francis Blanche
We remember the actor, the storyteller and the radio man, with the round face of
the joker uncle who made France laugh so much in the 50s and 60s with his
eternal companion, Pierre Dac. Francis Blanche wrote nearly 400 songs for
himself and others, in which a sense of despair ("les Bêtises" or "Ça tourne pas
rond dans ma p'tite tête") that his vitriolic humor carefully concealed. In
1943, as a young beginner churning out express fables, he wrote "Débit de lait,
débit de l'eau", with Charles Trenet, on a streetcar crossing Brussels. Next
came "J'ai de la barbe" and "la Pince à lin...
