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Beau Dommage – Harmonie du soir à Châteauguay

"Harmonie du soir à Châteauguay" is the first track on the second side of Beau Dommage's eponymous debut album, released in December 1974. In 1975, it was released as a single with "La Complainte du phoque en Alaska" and became a monster hit. The song is included in Roger Chamberland and André Gaulin's La Chanson Québécoise anthology.

In the summer of 1977, I went on a bicycle trip from the Sault to a Bible camp near Rouyn-Noranda with my brother Tim, who was then living in Quebec City. I suspect that is when I was first turned on to contemporary Quebecois music.

Hometown: Montreal
Canadian Content: the song is about a Sunday evening on the Châteauguay River
Release Date: December 1974
Composer: Robert Léger
Album: Beau Dommage
Style: folk rock
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