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Fredericks Goldman Jones
Fredericks Goldman Jones was the name of a famous French musical trio made up of Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones. Established in 1990, it remained active until 1996. After the amicable separation of the trio and the continuation of each in their solo musical careers, the three remained very close friends and continued to perform on special concerts together. The trio released two hugely successful albums, the self-titled ''Fredericks Goldman Jones'' in 1990 and ''Rouge'' in 1993. The song " À nos actes manqués" remains their most famous song. Other famous songs include " Né en 17 à Leidenstadt", "Juste après" and "Nuit". The order of the names was decided strictly on an alphabetical order of the family names of the trio. Roles In the albums released by the trio, and despite the prominence of Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones were involved as main singers and not as guitarist in case of Jones or backing vocalist in case of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredericks Goldman Jones (album)
''Fredericks Goldman Jones'' is a 1990 album recorded by the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones. It was the trio's first studio album and was recorded at the studios ICP and Guillaume Tell, in Paris. The album was released on 28 November 1990 and spawned six singles which achieved success in France : "Nuit" (#6), "À nos actes manqués" (#2), "Né en 17 à Leidenstadt" (#11), "C'est pas l'amour" (#11), "Un, deux, trois" (#8) and "Tu manques" (#12). The album itself was successful : it debuted at number one on 4 January 1991 and stayed there for eight consecutive weeks. It was ranked for 51 weeks in the top ten and 87 weeks in the top 50. In 1991, it earned a Diamond disc for over 1,000,000 copies sold. Track listing All tracks written and composed by Jean-Jacques Goldman. All tracks performed by Carole Fredericks, Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michael Jones, except "Tu manques" (Goldman only). # "C'est pas d'l'amour" — 4:57 # "Vivre cent vies" — 4:41 # " Né en 17 à Leidenstadt" — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Fredericks
Carole Denise Fredericks (June 5, 1952 – June 7, 2001) was an American singer best known for her work in French music. She was the younger sister of Taj Mahal. Between 1990 and 1996 she was in the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones alongside singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman and Welsh–French guitarist Michael Jones. Biography Early Years Carole Denise Fredericks was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on June 5, 1952, the youngest of Mildred and Harry Fredericks' five children. She and her siblings were raised in Springfield and were educated in the public school system. Her mother who was originally from Bennettsville, South Carolina, sang with Big Bands and on Sundays was the lead singer for a local gospel choir. Her father, the son of immigrants from the island of Saint Kitts, was a pianist and wrote arrangements for jazz trios. Growing up in her household, Fredericks was exposed to music from around the world.DiCaire, 9 Her parents encouraged creative expression i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman (; born 11 October 1951) is a French singer-songwriter and music record producer. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world. Since the death of Johnny Hallyday in 2017 he has been the highest grossing living French pop rock act. Born in Paris and active in the music scene since 1975, he had a highly successful solo career in the 1980s, and was part of the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones, releasing another string of hits in the 1990s. He also wrote successful albums and songs for many artists, including ''D'eux'' for Céline Dion, which is the most successful French language record to date. He was also part of the Les Enfoirés charity collective from 1986 to 2016, and got his most notable official recognition in the English-speaking world for winning a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1997, as a co-author of three tracks on Céline Dion's ''Falling into You''. Despite a voluntary retirement from the music scene in the early 2000s, he remains highly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Jones (Welsh-French Musician)
Michael Jones (born 28 January 1952) is a Welsh singer, guitarist, and songwriter who lives in France. He has made several hit albums and toured as trio Fredericks Goldman Jones (formed by Michael Jones, French singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman and American singer Carole Fredericks) and collaborated on a number of songs with Goldman. Biography Jones was born in Welshpool of a Welsh father, John Merick Jones (who landed in Normandy during World War II) and a French mother from Normandy, Simone Lalleman. As a young man, he studied drums and guitar. In 1966, he started his first group: Urban District Council Dib Bob Band. At 19, he went to France on vacation and never left. He played guitar and sang with a Norman group called Travert & Cie from 1971 to 1979 and with the group BUDDY C from 1979 to 1983. Later, he joined the group Taï Phong, where he met Jean-Jacques Goldman, whom he replaced on tour. In 1979, he performed with the group from Toulouse Week-end Millionnaire. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rouge (Fredericks Goldman Jones Album)
' is a 1993 album recorded by the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones. It was their second studio album and was recorded at the studios , ICP and , located in France and Belgium. The album was released on 29 November 1993 and was not as successful as the singers' first studio album, but still spawned three singles which achieved some success in France : "" (#14), "" (#32) and "" (#33). Album information The collector edition of ' has a box in aluminium, whose front cover is entirely carved, and some elements of which are painted red. The Alexandrov Ensemble participated in this recording, on the song "". The album debuted at number one on 5 December 1993 and stayed there for seven consecutive weeks. It was ranked for 17 weeks in the top ten and for 42 weeks in the top 50. In 1995, it earned a Diamond disc for over 1,000,000 copies sold. The album was briefly ranked at #41 in Switzerland. Track listing All tracks written and composed by . # "" — 2:18 # "" — 5:55 # "" — 4:54 # "" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
À Nos Actes Manqués
"À nos actes manqués" is a 1991 song recorded by the French trio Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones (the song was credited to Fredericks Goldman Jones). Released as the second single from their eponymous album, the song was one of the summer hits in France and was the trio's most successful single in terms of ranks on the chart. In 2011, M. Pokora covered the song on his album '' Mise à Jour'' and released it as a single, which achieved some success in French-speaking countries. The trio also released an English version, ''To The Deeds We Missed''. Music and lyrics The song was written and produced by Jean-Jacques Goldman. It was described by Elia Habib, an expert of French charts, as having "a lively melody with African accents, tcelebrates in its lyrics the small failures of the everyday life with a lot of tenderness and humor". The refrain is performed by Carole Fredericks, while the verses are sung in turn by Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michael Jones. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Né En 17 à Leidenstadt
"Né en 17 à Leidenstadt" (English: "Born in '17 in Leidenstadt") is a 1990 song written by Jean-Jacques Goldman for his group Fredericks Goldman Jones. It was the third single from their debut album, '' Fredericks Goldman Jones'', and was released in July 1991. It has been performed twice by Goldman alone, and also by Goldman with Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones, each with a specific verse to sing. An English version exists in which Fredericks and Jones sing in their native language. Lyrics and music In this song, the three singers are wondering if they would have acted differently if they had been in the situation of Germans after the 1918 defeat and during the rise of Nazism (stating that the composer, Jean-Jacques Goldman, had Polish and Jewish origins and that his mother is German), or in that of Northern Irish who were into civil war, or if they would show more solidarity with blacks if they were born as being white and rich in Johannesburg, South Africa. Therefore, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuit (song)
"Nuit" is a song recorded by the French trio Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones. It was the first single from their debut album, ''Fredericks Goldman Jones'', on which the song features as the fifth track. It achieved success in terms of sales in France. Background, lyrics and music Goldman explained that "Nuit" was written in a very short time, i.e. just a few hours. He confessed that he was proud of this song, especially for its text. The music is inspired by Peter Green. The choice of "Nuit" as the first single from the album was difficult : the three singers did not agree initially, but ultimately chose this song, considering that it was very representative of the album which is "really based on vocals and guitars". The song includes lyrics in French-language (written by Goldman) and in English-language (written by Jones and sung by Fredericks). According to Elia Habib, a specialist of French charts, this song is characterized by its "sweetness and lu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tu Manques
"Tu manques" is a 1990 song recorded by Carole Fredericks, Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michael Jones. It was the sixth and last single from the album ''Fredericks Goldman Jones'' on which it appears as the last track and was released in May 1992. Although the three singers are credited on the single cover, only Goldman performed it. It was a top 15 hit in France. Music and lyrics According to Goldman, "Tu manques" is a very "intimate song". Composed of three chords, the song was written very quickly during a night. It deals with the absence of a loved person and the painful consequences that this situation generates. The song is autobiographical and refers to Goldman's father who died at the time. In an interview by Nagui on RTL, the singer said that "Tu manques" would never be released as a single and never performed on stage (finally, the song came out, but it was actually never sung live). According to an analysis, the "rhythm is slow", the "sentences are widely spaced", "there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MVD Ensemble
The Rosgvardia Academic Song and Dance Ensemble, formerly known as the MVD Ensemble, is an official academic ensemble of the National Guard of Russia (Rosgvardia) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia), Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (Russian MVD). Established in 1939, the ensemble carries on the tradition of choirs and ballets of the Soviet Red Army, with singers, musicians and dancers. History The MVD Ensemble was born to serve and sustain the Soviet state. The Alexandrov Ensemble, under the patronage of the Ministry of Defense, was founded in 1928, and The MVD Ensemble under that of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1939 but dissolved until 1974. Ensemble MVD was established in 1939 under the direction of Alexander Vassilivitch. General Victor Eliseev recreated the ensemble in 1974 when he joined as chief of choir, then becoming director of MVD Ensemble in 1985. Since the 1980s, The Ensemble MVD has performed on all continents after moderni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sur Scène
''Sur scène'' is a 1992 album recorded by the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones. It was their first live album and second album overall. It was recorded between August and November 1991 in Vienna, Aix-les-Bains and Lyon and was released on 26 November 1992. It spawned a sole single which achieved success in France : "Il suffira d'un signe (live)" (#14), which was originally recorded for Goldman's first studio album, '' Démodé''. Album information The album contains seven songs from the trio's first studio album, plus four songs previously recorded in a studio version on his 1980s solo albums. The album debuted at number five on 16 December 1992 and climbed to number one two weeks later and stayed there for three consecutive weeks. It was ranked for 14 weeks in the top ten and for 26 weeks in the top 50. In 2000, it earned a Double platinum disc for over 600,000 copies sold. Track listing All tracks written and composed by Goldman (unless notified). # " Nuit" (Jean-Jacques Goldm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
