Franoise Hardy - Il pretesto (It hurts to say goodbye) - 1968 - stereo

Françoise Madeleine Hardy - Il pretesto (It hurts to say goodbye) Comment te dire adieu (1968) - È domenica, ma senza impegno 1969 - stereo. Written-By – Harnold Goland, Daiano (Claudio Fontana), Jack Gold. Jean-Pierre Sabar Et Son Orchestre. Original title: “It Hurts to Say Goodbye“. First performed by: Margaret Whiting, 1966. Françoise Hardy heard an “American instrumental version“ of the song and her manager asked Serge Gainsbourg to provide suitable lyrics for it. The resultant “Comment te dire adieu“ was combined with an arrangement relatively closer to the Caravelli version and included on Hardy’s 1968 album. Hardy also recorded the song in Italiano (“Il pretesto“, 1968) and German (“Was mache’ ich ohne dich“, 1970; collected in the album Träume, 1970.) The French lyrics are notable for their uncommon rhymes in “ex“, within the subject of the song having a sense of “ex“ as in “ex-boyfriend“