Bulles is an album by French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Michel Polnareff

Michel Polnareff

Michel Polnareff, born in Nérac on 3 July 1944, is a French singer-songwriter who was very popular from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s...

 released in 1981

1981 in music

See also:* Timeline of musical eventsThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1981.-January–April:*January 10 – A revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadway's Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith.*January 24 –...

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With this album, the singer found more success, as it sold 800,000 copies. "Radio", "Je t'aime", and "Tam-Tam" were put into heavy rotation on french radio stations. Although mostly rock-oriented, Polnareff maintains his personality lyrically and musically.
In 2001, the album was re-issued by Universal-Polygram.

Track listing

Music by Michel Polnareff, lyrics by Michel Polnareff and J.P. Dréau.

Side A

1. "Tam tam"
2. "Elle rit" (Translation: "She Laughs")
3. "Radio"
4. "Je t'aime" (Translation: "I Love You")

Side B

1. "Où est la tosca?"
2. "Joue moi de toi"
3. "365 jours par an" (Translation: "365 Days A Year")
4. "Bulles de savon" (Translation: "Soap Bubbles")

Personnel

• Ricky Hitchcock — guitars
• Mo Foster
  Mo Foster
  Mo Foster is a British session musician, playing primarily jazz, jazz-fusion and rock bass guitar. He is also a music producer and songwriter/composer. In over 40 years as a musician Foster has played on and produced countless albums, singles, and film soundtracks...
  
   — bass
• Michel Polnareff — vocals, piano, keyboards, percussion, male and female chorus, arranger
• Richard Myhill — piano, keyboards, male chorus, musicians director
• Graham Preskett — keyboards, violin solo
• Hans Zimmer
  Hans Zimmer
  Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film composer and music producer. He has composed music for over 100 films, including critically acclaimed film scores for The Lion King , Crimson Tide , The Thin Red Line , Gladiator , The Dark Knight and Inception .Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the...
  
   — keyboards, keyboards layout
• Robin Landridge — keyboards
• Peter Van Hooke
  Peter Van Hooke
  Peter Van Hooke was drummer in the English band Mike + The Mechanics as well as having drummed for Cliff Richard, Van Morrison's band, Headstone, and Ezio. During the 1980s he successfully co-produced many of Tanita Tikaram's hits.Van Hooke grew up in Stanmore, Middlesex and attended Mill Hill...
  
   — drums
• Brett Morgan — drums
• Frank Ricotti
  Frank Ricotti
  Frank Ricotti is an English jazz vibraphonist and percussionist.Ricotti played in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra while a teenager, then attended Trinity College of Music...
  
  — drums
• Mac Tontoh — drums
• Daku Potato — drums
• Allan Parker — banjo
• Linda Jardim — female chorus
• Modesty Forbids — female chorus
• Ray Springfield — flute

Production

• Producer – M. Polnareff
• Engineer – Brad Davis, Steve Allan
• Mixing – R. Myhill, M. Polnareff, G. Preskett
• Mastering – B. Davis
• Album cover design – Hicks and Hayes
• Photography – John Thornton

Recorded at studios Snake Ranch, Nova, Marcus Music.