Ca Plane Pour Moi: the New York Dolls' legacy

Ca Plane Pour Moi, the iconic Plastic Bertrand song. People have more chance of remembering their first hearing of this than where they were on 11/9/01, or when Kennedy was shot.

In a moment of idleness, I set about capturing a list of covers with youtube or similar links. Mercifully, early on in this pointless exercise I discovered a shrine to this immortal song. Whoever did this work has done a more than thorough job. Go see.

Do not miss:

• The deeply poignant original by Elton Mortello, Jet Boy, Jet Girl.
• Hemmi Gunn's version, translated into Icelandic as Einn dans við mig.
• The dancing video in Thee headcoatees version.
• Seriously foxy ladies in the Swiss band Tears.
• Pigloo - hahahahahahaha!
• Andre Vershuren's accordion instrumental.

(Apropos of Elton Mortello's version, he must have known of Jet Boy by the NYD, which I saw performed live in York in, ummm, 1974.)

My French is appalling, but I also commend David Gibb's attempted translation of the lyrics - My cat Splash indeed. An Aussie chat show has these lyrics overlaid on the PB original.

Ca plane pour moi - ganz wahr.