[1] Airing Sunday afternoons on CBC Radio 2, and repeated Saturday nights on CBC Radio One, the program presented songs and other music performed in French of Canadian and international origins for English-speaking audiences.
[2] Hosted by Jim Corcoran, a fluently bilingual Quebec musician,[2] this show first aired on November 5, 1988.
[3] To aid in listener comprehension of the music, Corcoran would often recite an English translation of a song's lyrics.
The idea to present translations of lyrics into English was suggested to Corcoran by the show's long time producer and recording engineer Frank Opolko.
[1] It was replaced on the CBC Radio schedule by C'est formidable!, a similar show hosted by musician Florence K.[1]