Hold up by Louis Chédid: 1984 Version

Bouncy keyboards, soaring synths, doodle-y bass, and lots of sound effects (sirens, menacing shouts) are the '80s remake of Hold up that Louis Chédid did of his own hit from 1974. In both versions he uses a woman's voice announcing the passing minutes on a loudspeaker to build suspense.

The video for the 80s Hold up is a mini-film, with actor Claude Brasseur and singer/actor Alain Souchon starring alongside Chédid as bank robbers and as moviegoers watching themselves commit the crime. France was ahead of the pack with videos thanks to Scopitone technology and had been making them for over two decades by the time America started watching MTV in the mid-80s.