Brigitte Bardot et Serge Gainsbourg – Bonnie and Clyde
“Bonnie and Clyde” – Single by Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg from the album Bonnie and Clyde
Released January 1968
Label Fontana/Phillips
Songwriter Serge Gainsbourg
Producer Claude Dejacques
“Bonnie And Clyde” is a song, recorded December 1967 at Studio Hoche, Paris, during the “Je T’Aime Moi Non Plus” session. Previously broadcasted on french tv show “Brigitte Bardot Show”, 1st January 1968.
“Bonnie and Clyde” is a 1968 French-language song written by Serge Gainsbourg, and performed by Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot. The song tells the story of the outlaw couple Bonnie and Clyde. It is based on an English language poem written by Bonnie Parker herself a few weeks before she and Clyde Barrow were shot, titled “The Trail’s End”. The French song was released on two albums in 1968: Gainsbourg’s album Initials B.B., and Gainsbourg and Bardot’s album Bonnie and Clyde.