OK, I realise this is a cheap way of filling blog posts on my first week back at work, but don't blame me - blame all these songwriters who were obsessed with the late Ms. B.
Last lot today, I promise. Though I did leave a load out... and probably missed a bunch too.
We'll start with a suggestion from The Swede, which I'm kicking myself I didn't remember...
Will Serge's own 'Initials BB' will be making an appearance?
And the reason I'm kicking myself? I'm a big fan of the Mick Harvey version...
On with the show... and I suppose we have to get this one out of the way...
The Bollock Brothers - Brigitte Bardot
Now let's move up to something with a bit more class.
I'm in love with Sophia Loren
I'm in love with Bridget Bardot
I'm in love with the whole dumb scene
The Psychedelic Furs - We Love You
Zig-zag, walk like Marilyn Monroe
Zig-zag, talk like Brigitte Bardot
No stone gonna be unturned
When you're out there, walkin' and a talkin'
Baby, doin' the Zig-Zag Walk
You know what, you're a supersonic flight
A song by Lennon and McCartney
A Mohammed Ali fight
You're like Brigitte Bardot
No way Danny La Rue...
But most important of all
You are you
Gilbert O`Sullivan - You Are You
Marilyn, Sophia, Danny La Rue... who else might Brigitte get compared to?
She smiles like Richard Nixon
Walks like Brigitte Bardot
And I love her, but I can't trust her
The Bad Examples - She Smiles Like Richard Nixon
That's the problem with being an icon. You can choose your lyrical bedfellows. Still, given what C said about Brigitte's latter-day politics, maybe she'd appreciate spending time with Tricky Dicky?
Well you may not look like Brigitte Bardot
But you got rhythm in your big black toe
Colin Blunstone - Pay Me Later
That's got to be the weirdest lyric yet. Can Noddy beat that?
I get weird imaginin's about all different kinds of things, but I always try
To get fantasising thoughts, maybe Bardot in her shorts, like a natural guy
So I took a trip to Tutankhamen's tomb
He was alone and said he hoped I'd come back soon
Of course he can.
Bobby boy's full of bravado
His girlfriend looks like Bridgette Bardot
You know, I wouldn't normally lower myself to the Menswear level, but credit where it's due - that's one of the better rhymes I've seen since starting this list.
Can anyone find a better rhyme for Bardot?
I should be raising the bar high, avoiding the bar low
I'll write a million songs for you as if I was Barlow
'Cause you're my Bridget Bardot, my precious cargo
I'm tryna speak my mind but I don't get very far though
The first time that you saw Bardot
Inside you really glow
But I feel better than that
(I feel better than that)
Lots of blokes squeezing her into their songs? What about a lady for a change?
Every time I see you, I see Paris in your eyes
A hint of the forbidden, Brigitte Bardot style
Every time I dream of you, I dream that distant land
Where I once held tomorrow in my hand
Janis Ian - Paris In Your Eyes
And another female perspective... from a male songwriter.
'Cause when I was a little girl, you'd dress me like Bardot
And the hallway'd become a catwalk, and you'd watch me go to the show
Said, "All the little girls were pretty, but I was pretty like fresh flowers"
I was a superhero, mama, with superpowers
And to close - this really is the end of our Bardot tribute, I promise! - here's the theme to Eurotrash, by Francis Lai... and a certain Ms. Bardot.
