Discover the story of the song > Mon vieux – Daniel Guichard

- The first interpretation of the song was by Jacques Boyer in 1963.
- In 1974, Daniel Guichard recorded the song and made it a success. This version is the best known.
- In 2000, a tribute album to Jean Ferrat was released, including a cover of Mon vieux by Charles Aznavour.
- Michelle Senlis wrote the text Mon vieux as a tribute to her father, a text that Jean Ferrat put to music in 1963.
- The same year, the song is interpreted by two singers, Jacques Boyer and Jean-Louis Stain.
- On November 7, 1963, the father of Michelle Senlis dies; the latter then asks that the song is no longer used.
- However, in 1974, she agreed to co-sign the cover of Daniel Guichard.
- Later, she said she regretted this gesture because she blamed Daniel Guichard for having interpreted the song in 1973 with retouched lyrics without her agreement and that "everyone" had hidden it from her at the time of signing.
- Moreover, following the enormous success collected by the cover of Daniel Guichard, Michelle Senlis says that she has badly lived the "false filiation" that the journalists made between Daniel Guichard and the song.