Jean-Pierre Ferland – Le Petit Roi

"Let Petit Roi," the lead-off track (after "Prologue") on Jean-Pierre Feland's ground-breaking Jaune album, was never released as a single, as far as I know (except on a CKRL radio station sampler), but is considered one of the most important songs in Quebec history, as noted in Roger Chamberland and André Gaulin's La Chanson Québécoise, which is somewhat surprising since the chorus includes the phrase, "Hey boule de gomme, S'rais-tu dev'nu un homme" ("Hey gumball, would you have become a man"). In Bob Mersereau'sThe Top 100 Canadian Singles book, "Le Petit Roi" placed fifth among French-Canadian singles and eighty-fourth overall.

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• the original album version
• a 1970 live TV version
• a Kevin Parent cover version

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Personnel

• Jean-Pierre Ferland – vocals
• Michel Robidoux – keyboards, synthesizers, arrangements
• Jim Young – drums
• David Spinozza – guitars
• Tony Levin – bass
• Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal – chorus
• Josianne Roy – strings
• Guido Basso – brass