JASON CREST - WATERLOO ROAD

WATERLOO ROAD

JASON CREST

SONGWRITERS: MICHAEL ANTONY DEIGHAN & MICHEL WILSHAW

PAROLIER: PIERRE DELANOË

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: LES CHAMP-ÉLYSÉES

RECORD: PHILIPS RECORDS

GENRE: PSYCHEDELIC POP

ANNÉE: 1968

Jason Crest (formerly The Good Thing Brigade) were an English, Tonbridge, Kent based psychedelic pop group, active from around 1967 to 1969. Despite releasing five singles on Philips from 1967 to 1968, (including a cover of The Move's "(Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree"), the band were never commercially successful and disbanded towards the end of the 1960s when their contract with Philips expired.

However, the singles "Black Mass", "Turquoise Tandem Cycle", "(Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree" and "Place in the Sun" have all appeared on the Rubble collection of British psychedelia and freakbeat, and the band garnered a modest cult reputation.

Jason Crest's fourth single, "Waterloo Road" (1968), reached number one in France when French singer Joe Dassin covered it under the title "Les Champs-Élysées".

I was walking down a street today

And I saw a girl along the way

I asked to where she's going

And she said "Come with me"

She took me down this avenue

Where we met some friends she knew

And there we start and stopped awhile

And passed the time away

Down the Champs-Élysées

Down the Champs-Élysées

Friday night, Saturday

Any night or any day

You'll find what you're looking for

On the Champs-Élysées

Sitting in the small café

We heard the street musician play

Some waltzes on his accordeon

All night long

He's playing sound wheezy

But the melody was so easy

Now we all got up and join the man

We sang this song

Down the Champs-Élysées

Down the Champs-Élysées

Friday night, Saturday

Any night or any day

You'll find what you're looking for

On the Champs-Élysées

Now the birds are cheeping

And we all feel kinda sleepy

The morning sun has risen and

The moon has gone

But still the feeling lingers

And still I hear the singers

As I walked along the avenue

And sing this song

Down the Champs-Élysées

Down the Champs-Élysées

Friday night, Saturday

Any night or any day

You'll find what you're looking for

On the Champs-Élysées.