Yesterday for Song of the Day I related the story of Serge Gainsbourg’s disastrous first date with Brigitte Bardot, who was married at the time, and how she told him that to make it up to her he should write “the most beautiful love song he could imagine.” He wrote the steamy duet “Je T’Aime…Moi Non Plus.”
Just to be sure, Gainsbourg also wrote a second tune that night. “Bonnie and Clyde” piggybacked on the successful Warren Beatty film of 1967, with Gainsbourg basing his lyrics on a poem by Bonnie Parker, “The Trail’s End.” Unlike “Je T’Aime,” the song was released soon after, and became a hit in Belgium, of all places. The couple filmed a performance for a Bardot TV special broadcast Dec. 31, 1967.
