Françoise Hardy (1963 album)

1963 studio album by Françoise Hardy

Le premier bonheur du jour

Studio album by

Françoise Hardy

Released

October 1963 (France)

Recorded

Studio Vogue
Villetaneuse, France

Genre

French pop

Length

26:00

Language

French

Label

Disques Vogue

Producer

Jacques Wolfsohn

Françoise Hardy chronology

Tous les garçons et les filles
(1962)

Le premier bonheur du jour
(1963)

Françoise Hardy canta per voi in italiano
(1963)

Alternative cover

English cover (1964)

Françoise Hardy is the second studio album of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy, released in October 1963 on LP by French label Disques Vogue (FH 1). She was accompanied by the Marcel Hendrix Orchestra.^[1] Like Hardy's previous album, the album was released with no title, except for her name on the cover; as such, album colloquially become known by the title of its most successful song, "Le Premier Bonheur du jour" ("The First Joy of the Day").

"Le premier bonheur du jour" was covered by Brazilian band Os Mutantes on their debut 1968 album, and decades later on the 2014 album Dream a Little Dream by Pink Martini and The von Trapps.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Françoise Hardy; all music is composed by Françoise Hardy, except where noted

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Le premier bonheur du jour"	Franck Gérald [fr]	Jean Renard	1:53
2.	"Va pas prendre un tambour"	Maurice Vidalin [fr]	Jacques Dutronc	2:50
3.	"Saurai-je?"			2:05
4.	"Toi je ne t'oublierai pas"	André Salvet [fr], Claude Carrère [fr]	Jean-Pierre Bourtayre	2:24
5.	"Avant de t'en aller" (original title: "Think About It"^[2])		Paul Anka	1:57
6.	"Comme tant d'autres"			2:35
7.	"J'aurais voulu"			2:10
8.	"Nous tous"			1:43
9.	"L'Amour d'un garçon" (original title: "The Love of a Boy"^[3])		Burt Bacharach	2:10
10.	"Le sais-tu?"			1:44
11.	"L'amour ne dure pas toujours"			1:45
12.	"On dit de lui" (original title: "It's Gonna Take Me Some Time"^[4])		Don Stirling, Harold Temkin	2:42
Total length:				25:58

Editions

LP records: first editions in the English-speaking world

Canada, 1964: Trans-Canada Record/Disques Vogue (FH 1).
United Kingdom, 1964: In Vogue, Pye Records (NPL 18099).
South Africa, 1965: Disques Vogue (VGL 7004).

Reissues on CD

France, 1996: Disques Vogue/Sony/BMG (7 43213 80032).
France, 2014: Le Premier Bonheur du jour, RDM Edition (CD687).
USA, 16 October 2015: Le Premier Bonheur du jour, Light in the Attic Records/Future Days Recordings (FDR 615).