Editing Dalida (section)

==== "La Leçon de Twist", "Le Petit Gonzales", exhaustive tours and scopitones ====

[[File:Dalida and Chet Baker 2.jpg|thumb|Dalida with [[Chet Baker]] on 13 April 1961, Italy]]
After a short break Dalida was back on tour, this time starting in Canada where "{{lang|fr|Tu peux le prendre|i=no}} had reached number one.<ref name=":0" /> On 5 February, on the popular French youth TV program {{lang|fr|Toute la Chanson}}, Dalida performed her latest yé-yé release "{{lang|fr|La Leçon de Twist|i=no}}". Accompanied on the piano by then leading French teen idol [[Johnny Hallyday]], he also taught Dalida the dance moves, about what she said: "he really showed himself, the most friendly of teachers of this new rhythm".<ref name=":2" /> The performance caused a sensation, rocketing her track straight to the top of French and Belgian charts.<ref name=":13">{{cite web|url=http://www.infodisc.fr/Number1_60.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080323145835/http://www.infodisc.fr/Number1_60.php|archive-date=23 March 2008|title=InfoDisc : Tout les Titres N° 1 des 60's|date=23 March 2008|access-date=14 March 2019}}</ref> "{{lang|fr|La Leçon de Twist|i=no}}" was followed by another success in the same genre "{{lang|fr|Achète-moi un juke-box|i=no}}", with the lyrics "Oh dad, buy me a jukebox, to listen to [[Elvis Presley]], [[Les Chaussettes Noires]], and [[Johnny Hallyday]] – And Dalida? But what is she doing here, they still listen to her?",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dalida.com/paroles-de-chansons-france/a/123-achete-moi-un-juke-box.html|title=Dalida site Officiel – Achète moi un Juke-Box|website=dalida.com|access-date=14 March 2019}}</ref> Dalida was making a joke at her own expense referring to the current situation in France where the young people were fond of young singers, despite her success during the yé-yé era. The record spent two weeks at number one during the spring.<ref name=":13" />

From April to July Dalida toured Italy and [[Vietnam]]. In [[Ho Chi Minh City|Saigon]], her popularity led to traffic congestion when she performed, but the local authorities interrupted her show during a rendition of "{{lang|fr|La Leçon de Twist|i=no}}" because the song was considered to be a political act.<ref name=":8" /> In May Dalida was back at the top of the international charts with "{{lang|fr|Le Petit Gonzales|i=no}}", a cover of "[[Speedy Gonzales (song)|Speedy Gonzales]]", which peaked in France, Belgium, Canada and [[Spain]] the following month and remains known as "one of the most memorable and nostalgic recordings of the yé-yé era", according to {{lang|fr|[[Le Parisien]]}} in 1987.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=May 1987|title=Adieu Dalida|journal=Le Parisien|page=1}}</ref> The [[Le petit Gonzales|album of the same name]] was issued later in the year.<ref name=":14">{{cite web|url=http://dalida.com/1961-1968.html|title=Dalida site Officiel – 1961 – 1968|website=dalida.com|access-date=14 March 2019|archive-date=20 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190120113216/http://dalida.com/1961-1968.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Although Dalida had filmed her first [[scopitone]] in 1961 for the song "{{lang|fr|Loin de moi|i=no}}", starting a series of music videos that were followed by almost all yé-yé newcomers, her best critically and commercially received scopitone was recorded in September 1962 for the song "{{lang|fr|Le Jour le plus long|i=no}}", in which she paid tribute to the [[Normandy landings|Allies' disembarkation in Normandy]] on 6 June 1944.<ref name=":1" /> Under the direction of the young [[Claude Lelouch]], who later became one of the most acclaimed French directors, Dalida dressed as a soldier and walked through a war-torn forest in the middle of bombing accompanied by real scenes from the [[World War II|Second World War]]. This unusual image of Dalida found an audience and was a hit in cafes. Alongside Dalida's performance of the song on 26 September, in front of a crowd of 2,000 people on the first floor of the [[Eiffel Tower]], "{{lang|fr|Le Jour le plus long|i=no}}" topped charts in France for two weeks and earned her another gold disc.<ref name=":11" />