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Georges Aber
Georges Poubennec (17 July 1930 – 16 March 2012), better known under the name Georges Aber, was a French singer-songwriter. Poubennec was born in Brest. During the 1960s, he adapted the lyrics of many popular songs from English into French. He died in Plougastel, aged 81. Selected discography As singer * "Mes frères" / "Mon cœur bat" / "Rue de la solitude" / "Plus grand" – EP, 1959, Véga V 45 P 1994 * "Qu'il fait bon vivre" / "Oh oh, Madeleine!" / "J’ai rêvé" / "Je sais"- EP, 1959, Véga V 45 P 2019 * "Monsieur Seguin" / "Jericho" / "Pourquoi (Ya ya)" / "Comme un tigre (Tiger)" – EP, 1960, Véga V 45 P 2068 * "Je ris quand j’ai le blues" / "Des ya ya, des yé yé" / "Bravo au héros!" / "Quelquefois j’ai…" – EP, 1963, Polydor 27016 As songwriter or adapter * For Johnny Hallyday : over fifty songs in all including: "Madison Twist" (1962; also covered by Sylvie Vartan), "Les Coups", ''French adaptation of "Uptight (Everything's Alright)'' (1966), " Noir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brest, France
Brest (; ) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon. The city is located on the western edge of continental France. With 142,722 inhabitants in a 2007 census, Brest forms Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area (with a population of 300,300 in total), ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 19th most populous city in France; moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany. Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the ''préfecture'' (regional capital) of the department is the much smaller Quimper. During the Middle Ages, the history of Brest was the history of its castle. Then Richelieu made it a military harbour in 1631. Brest grew around its arsenal unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quand Le Film Est Triste
"Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)" is a 1961 pop song by the American singer Sue Thompson. The song was written by John D. Loudermilk and appears on Thompson's 1962 Hickory Records album ''Meet Sue Thompson''. Background Although Thompson was in her thirties when she recorded "Sad Movies", her singing style and young-sounding voice appealed to many of the Baby Boomers whose influence was starting to become apparent on the US music charts. Loudermilk was inspired to write the song after a girlfriend of his went to see the 1960 film ''Spartacus'': "After the movie went off, they turned the bright lights on, and it was just an ambience killer. The person I was with had tears in her eyes and said, 'Sad movies make me cry'." Chart performance Released as a single in 1961, "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)" was Thompson's first song to appear on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at number five in October. The song also reached the top of the ''Billboard'' Easy Listening chart, which had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalida
Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (; 17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida, was an Italian-French singer and actress born in Egypt. She sang in eleven languages and sold millions of records internationally. Her best known songs are " Bambino", " Les enfants du Pirée", " Le temps des fleurs", " Darla dirladada", " J'attendrai", and " Paroles, paroles" featuring spoken word by Alain Delon. First an actress, she made her debut in the film '' A Glass and a Cigarette'' by Niazi Mustapha in 1955. One year later, having signed with the Barclay record company, Dalida achieved her first success as a singer with "Bambino". Following this, she became the most important seller of records in France between 1957 and 1961. Her music charted in many countries in Europe, Latin America, North America, and Asia. Among her greatest sales successes were " Le jour où la pluie viendra", " Gigi l'amoroso", " J'attendrai", and " Salama ya salama". She sang with singers such as Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caterina Valente
Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931) is a French multilingual singer, guitarist, and dancer of Italian ethnicity. Valente is a polyglot; she speaks six languages, and sings in eleven. While she is best known as a performer in Europe, Valente spent part of her career in the United States, where she performed alongside Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. Career In 1955, she was featured on ''The Colgate Comedy Hour'' with Gordon MacRae. In 1958, she filmed the musical comedy ''Hier bin ich – hier bleib ich'' (''Here I Am, Here I Stay'') which featured a guest appearance by Bill Haley & His Comets. During Haley's segment, Valente sang a duet with Haley on a newly recorded version of his song "Vive la Rock and Roll". Her brother - Italian Musician, Singer and film actor Silvio Francesco (1927-2000) - performed with her, sang many duets, danced, and played the clarinet in the shadow of his famous sister. In the mid-1960s, Valente worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Deréal
Colette Deréal (; born Colette Denise de Glarélial; 22 September 1927 – 12 April 1988) was a French actress and singer. Eurovision Song Contest 1961 Deréal was born in Saint-Cyr-l'École, Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines), France. In 1961, Deréal represented Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961, with the song " Allons, allons les enfants" (Let's go, let's go children). Deréal finished joint tenth place with the Finnish entry "Valoa ikkunassa" (The lights in the window) sung by Laila Kinnunen and the Dutch entry "Wat een dag" (What a day) sung by Greetje Kauffeld, receiving six points. She died in Monaco. Selected filmography * '' Boîte à vendre'' (1951) * '' The Convict'' (1951) * '' This Age Without Pity'' (1952) * ''Sergil Amongst the Girls'' (1952) * '' This Man Is Dangerous'' (1953) * ''Yours Truly, Blake'' (1954) * '' The Red Cloak'' (1955) * '' Three Sailors'' (1957) * ''Under the Sign of the Bull ''Under the Sign of the Bull'' (French: ''Sous le signe du t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William (singer)
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John William may refer to: Given name *John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1562–1609) *Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1530–1573) People *John William, Baron Ripperda (1680–1737), political adventurer and Spanish prime minister *John William (MP for Dartmouth), see Dartmouth *John William (MP for Southwark), see Southwark See also * *John Williams (other) John Williams (born 1932) is an American composer (specializing in film scores), conductor and pianist. John, Johnnie, or Johnny Williams may also refer to: People Businessmen * John Williams (football executive) (born 1939 or 1940), English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noël Deschamps
Noël St. Clair Deschamps (25 December 190812 May 2005) was an Australian public servant and diplomat. Early life and education Deschamps was born in Brisbane, the son of Jacqueline Hester née Irwin and Joseph Mark Deschamps. His paternal grandparents owned a vineyard. He was educated at Glamorgan Preparatory School in Toorak, Melbourne. He graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of Cambridge and spent a couple of years as a school-master in North Wales before returning to Australia. Diplomatic career Deschamps joined the Department of External Affairs in 1937. January 1940 saw Deschamps appointed official secretary to the Australian High Commissioner in Canada. Between 1946 and 1947 Deschamps was ''Charge d'Affaires'' in Moscow. While in Moscow his sister Yvonne visited. In March 1950 Deschamps presented his credentials as the head of the Australian Military Mission in Berlin to the three Allied High Commissioners at Bonn. In January 1952, Deschamps was appoin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danyel Gérard
Danyel Gérard (born Gérard Daniel Kherlakian; 7 March 1939) is a French pop singer and composer. Life and work Gérard was born in Paris, France to an Armenian father and an Corsican mother, but grew up mainly in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. In 1953, he returned to Paris and became a choir boy at Notre Dame. Following this he played in the rock and roll band The Dangers. In 1958 he made his first recordings: "Viens" (a cover of the Kalin Twins' hit " When") and "D'où reviens-tu Billy Boy" (adapted from Dorothy Collins' "Where Have You Been, Billy Boy"), making one of the first young French singers to successfully sing rock and roll (his only rivals at this stage were Richard Anthony, Claude Piron (later better known as Danny Boy) and Gabriel Dalar), although his commercial impact was very limited; despite a latter-day, revisionist recasting of him as the French Elvis Presley, he was nevertheless one of France's first rock stars. After cutting a further EP featuring a cover o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Chaussettes Noires
Les Chaussettes Noires ( en, 'The Black Socks') were a French rock and roll band founded in 1960, that was among the pioneer of rock music in France, together with Les Chats sauvages. It was originally composed of Claude Moine, a.k.a. Eddy Mitchell (vocals), William Benaïm (guitar solo), Tony D'Arpa (rhythm guitar), Aldo Martinez (bass guitar), and Jean-Pierre Chichportich (drums) Les Chaussettes Noires signed in late 1960 with Barclay Records, under which the band recorded a score of successful gramophone record A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), or simply a record, is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts nea ...s, including: "Be-Bop-A-Lula" (1960), "Tu parles trop" (1960), "Daniela" (1961) — which remains their biggest hit, "Eddie Sois Bon" (1961) — a French language, French adaptation of Chuck Berry's 1958 song "Johnny B. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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