Jane Birkin sings 'Jane B' from the 1969 Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg Fontana album 'Je T'Aime - Beautiful Love' (also known as 'Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg' and 'Je t'aime... moi non plus'). The lyrics are in the video and below with comments about the singer and album.

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Jane B (Singer: Jane Birkin)

Signalement
Yeux bleus
Cheveux châtains
Jane B.
Anglaise
De sexe féminin
Âge entre 20 et 21
Apprend le dessin
Domiciliée chez ses parents

Yeux bleus
Cheveux châtains
Jane B.
Teint pâle, le nez aquilin
Portée disparue ce matin
À cinq heures moins vingt

Yeux bleus
Cheveux châtains
Jane B.
Tu dors au bord du chemin
Une fleur, deux sons
À la main

Songwriter: Serge Gainsbourg (After a Prelude of Chopin)
[Lyrics from Musixmatch]

English Translation:

Reporting
Blue eyes
Brown hair
Jane B.
English
Female
Age between 20 and 21
Learn drawing
Living with her parents

Blue eyes
Brown hair
Jane B.
Pale complexion, aquiline nose
Missing this morning
At twenty to five

Blue eyes
Brown hair
Jane B.
You sleep by the side of the road
One flower, two sounds
By hand

Wikipedia states:

Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE (born 14 December 1946) is an English singer, songwriter, actress and former model. She attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. She also had a prolific career as an actress in British and French cinema.

A native of London, Birkin began her career as an actress, appearing in minor roles in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (1966), and Kaleidoscope (1966). In 1968, she met Serge Gainsbourg while co-starring with him in Slogan, which marked the beginning of a years-long working and personal relationship. The duo released their debut album Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg (1969), and Birkin also appeared in the controversial film Je t'aime moi non plus (1976) under Gainsbourg's direction.

Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg (also known as Je t'aime... moi non plus) is an album featuring duets and solo performances by Serge Gainsbourg and his then lover, Jane Birkin. It was released in 1969 and included the worldwide hit "Je t'aime... moi non plus", which achieved notoriety for its salacious lyrics with a backing of ecstatic female moaning, culminating in an apparent orgasm at the song's finale.

Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg received critical acclaim. Allmusic noted that the album includes "kitsch masterpieces like "69 Annee Erotique" and Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's chart-topping "Je t'aime... moi non plus," in a procession of jazzy instrumentals accompanied by Gainsbourg's throaty, Gitanes-coated vocals and the pertly sexy interpolations of his [Gainsbourg's] stunning wife." D.M. Edwards of PopMatters stated: "The arrangements by Arthur Greenslade are excellent and there are plenty of glimpses of the experimentation which would be a feature of Gainsbourg’s music," further describing the album as "sophisticated, timeless pop music."

In 2017, Pitchfork placed it at number 44 on the "200 Best Albums of the 1960s" list. Writing for Pitchfork, Cameron Cook called it "a love letter read out loud by its recipient: Every note and lyric is meant to highlight a certain aspect of Birkin's persona though Gainsbourg's lens, from her breathless delivery of every line to her heavily accented, coquettish French."

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