Casino champ elysee

1968 single by Jason Crest

"Waterloo Road"
Digital reissue cover
B-side	"Education"
Released	28 February 1968
Label	Phillips
Songwriter(s)	Michael Anthony Deighan, Michael Wilshaw
"Here We Go Round (The Lemon Tree)" (1967) "Waterloo Road" (1968) "Place in the Sun" (1969)

"Les Champs-Élysées" is a 1969 song by American-French singer Joe Dassin. It is a French adaptation of "Waterloo Road", written the previous year in English by the British songwriting team of composer Mike Wilsh and lyricist Mike Deighan. While the English version refers to Waterloo Road, London, Dassin's version references the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

Composition[edit]

The song was originally called "Waterloo Road" (English lyrics by Michael Anthony Deighan, music by Michael Wilshaw) and released as their fourth single by the British rock band in 1968 Jason Crest. French lyricist Pierre Delanoë then adapted the lyrics into French.^[1][2]

French release[edit]

The song's French counterpart of "Les Champs-Élysées" was released by Joe Dassin as a single in 1969, with "Le Chemin de papa" on the B-side.

While "Waterloo Road" enjoyed modest success, "Les Champs-Élysées" entered charts in multiple European countries, and was Number One in some charts (e.g. IFOP's) in August 1969 in France, eventually selling 600,000 copies.

Track listing[edit]

7" single (CBS 4281)

1. "Les Champs-Élysées" (2:40)
2. "Le Chemin de papa" (2:22)

Charts[edit]

Adaptations[edit]

In the same year (1969) the song was covered by Slovene (then Yugoslav) singer Majda Sepe under the title Šuštarski most (Shoemakers bridge in Ljubljana). This cover was itself later covered by a Slovenian punk cover band Odprava zelenega zmaja.

"Les Champs-Élysées" was covered by American punk icons NOFX on their 1997 album So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes.

The entire song plays under the closing credits of Wes Anderson's film The Darjeeling Limited (2007).

The melody of Les Champs-Élysées was later used for the television commercial of CJ CheilJedang's dessert brand Petitzel Eclair in 2016, with lyrics sung by I.O.I.

The refrain of the song, accompanied by a yellow bouncing ball over the lyrics, was played during breaks in NBCSN's coverage of the 2018 Tour de France.

In 2018, the song was remade by Paul Pogba and Benjamin Mendy to honor Chelsea Football Club and France National Football Team star N'Golo Kante.^[7] This adaptation achieved great popularity in France during the French team's title run in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and also among Kante's teammates.^[8]

The song is performed in the ninth episode (titled "Evil Patrol") of the third season of the DC Comics television show Doom Patrol in 2021 by Riley Shanahan (Ultimax the Brain) and Jonathan Lipow (Monsieur Mallah).

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