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Maître Pierre (song)
"The Windmill Song" is the English version of the French popular song "Maître Pierre", composed in 1948 by Henri Betti with the lyrics by Jacques Plante. "Maître Pierre" had already been recorded by numerous French performers when Mitchell Parish wrote the English lyrics in 1951, titled "The Windmill Song", which became popular in the United States when performed by The Andrews Sisters that year. Story In 1948, Henri Betti met Jacques Plante at the SACEM who told him that he had the idea of writing a song referring to the 1947 strikes by coal miners in France. Plante told Betti that the song would speak about a young employee who works in the countryside in a mill which is directed by a man whose name is Maître Pierre. The employee is tired, and decides to leave and find a new job in Paris. Unable to find a job, he returns to the mill where he worked before. When he arrives at the mill and he sees the director again, he tells him : "Il fait bon chez vous Maître Pierre" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Andrews Sisters
The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the Swing music, swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia Andrews (July 6, 1911 – May 8, 1967), soprano Maxene Anglyn Andrews (January 3, 1916 – October 21, 1995), and mezzo-soprano Patricia "Patty" Marie Andrews (February 16, 1918 – January 30, 2013). The sisters have sold an estimated 80 million records. Their 1941 hit "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" can be considered an early example of jump blues. Other songs closely associated with the Andrews Sisters include their first major hit, "Bei Mir Bistu Shein, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (Means That You're Grand)" (1937), "Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)" (1939), "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" (1940), "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else but Me)" (1942), and "Rum and Coca Cola" (1945), which helped introduce American audiences to calypso music, calypso. The Andrews Sisters' harmonies and songs a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Ferrari
Louis Ferrari (1910–1987) was an Italian musette accordionist and composer who was active in France beginning in the 1930s. He established the Ferrari & Son Ensemble which played in Parisian clubs. Louis Ferrari was also the cousin of jazz accordionist Tony Muréna. His song ''Domino'' with French lyrics by Jacques Plante and English lyrics by Don Raye was popularized by singers including Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Tony Martin and Andy Williams. Works Selected works include: *''Domino Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces, commonly known as dominoes. Each domino is a rectangular tile, usually with a line dividing its face into two square ''ends''. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also ca ...'' (1951) *''Tonnerre d'Amour'' *''La varenne'' *''N'oublie Jamais'' (I Can't Forget) *''Soir de Paris'' Ferrari was also featured on a number of recordings. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrari, Louis Jazz accordionists Italian accordionists Folk j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Amont
Marcel Amont (; born Marcel Jean-Pierre Balthazar Miramon on April 1, 1929) is a French singer and actor of the 1960s and 1970s. Amont also recorded in Occitan and promoted Bearn culture from the 1950s.Cinéma - Numéros 301 à 312 1984 - - Page 56 "A part Marcel Amont, occitan, aucun acteur de renommée nationale. Mais des acteurs régionaux d'un niveau assez professionnel. Une difficulté qu'il faut avouer, peu de Jeunes, et encore moins d'enfants (et il nous en fallait), parlent occitan." He is a singer of great artistic career, being one of the most popular in France, and the most prolific of the French language with many years of career. He has sold 300 million albums, has recorded 30 albums, 79 singles 126 ep, 11 compilations and about 1,000 songs in different languages (English, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, German, Irish and Spanish). He is famous for having performed songs by composers such as Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré and Georges Moustaki. Inspired by American pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Lefèvre
Raymond Lefèvre (20 November 1929 – 27 June 2008) was a French easy listening orchestra leader, arranger and composer. Biography and career Born on 20 November 1929 in Calais, France, Raymond Lefèvre is best known for his interpretation of the 1968 theme "Soul Coaxing (Ame Caline)" (composed by Michel Polnareff), which became an international hit. He also wrote soundtracks for movies with Louis de Funès such as ''La Soupe Aux Choux'' (1981) or the series ''Le Gendarme de Saint Tropez''. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, he accompanied Dalida on most of her recordings (''Bambino'', ''Por Favor'', ''Tu peux tout faire de moi'', ''Quand on n'a que l'amour''), amongst many others. He started his musical career in 1956 on the Barclay Records label. His recordings were released in the United States on the Kapp and Four Corners record labels until 1969. Early career He was accepted at the Paris Conservatory when 17 years old. During the early 1950s he played the piano for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernand Gignac
Fernand Gignac (March 23, 1934 – August 18, 2006) was a French Canadian singer and actor. Beside his music career under the label Fleur-de-Lis, Gignac also starred in several television series (including '' Symphorien'', 1968). Gignac died on Friday, August 18, 2006, at the Hôpital Saint-Luc, Montreal, of complications due to hepatitis Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue. Some people or animals with hepatitis have no symptoms, whereas others develop yellow discoloration of the skin and whites of the eyes (jaundice), poor appetite, vomiting, tiredness, abdominal pa ..., aged 72. References External links * 1934 births 2006 deaths Deaths from hepatitis Canadian male television actors Canadian pop singers Male actors from Montreal Singers from Montreal 20th-century Canadian male singers {{Canada-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrex (actor)
Andrex (1907–1989) was a French film actor.Andrew p.125 Andrex was a close friend of the comedian Fernandel and appeared in many films alongside him. He was married to the actress Ginette Baudin. Partial filmography * ''Toine'' (1932) * ''Le coq du régiment'' (1933) * ''Les Bleus de la marine'' (1934) - Le lieutenant * ''Angèle'' (1934) - Louis * ''Toni'' (1935) - Gabi * ''Ferdinand le noceur'' (1935) - Un client du bordel (uncredited) * ''La brigade en jupons'' (1936) * '' Josette'' (1937) - Lucien * ''Les dégourdis de la 11ème'' (1937) - Le sergent * ''Ignace'' (1937) - Serge de Montroc * ''Life Dances On'' (1937) - Paul * ''Gribouille'' (1937) - Robert * ''L'affaire du courrier de Lyon'' (1937) - L'avocat de Lesurques * ''La Marseillaise'' (1938) - Honoré Arnaud * ''The Strange Monsieur Victor'' (1938) - Robert Cerani * ''Barnabé'' (1938) - André Dubreuil * ''Vacances payées'' (1938) - Gangster #1 * ''Le dompteur'' (1938) - Bertrand * ''Hôtel du Nord'' (1938) - Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Cariven
Marcel Auguste Antoine Cariven, (18 April 1894, Toulouse – 5 November 1979, Crosne near Paris)Bibliothèque nationale de France entry for Marcel Cariven accessed 31 January 2015. was a French conductor, particularly associated with light music and with operetta. Alain Pâris: ''Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interprétation musicale au XXe siècle.'' , Paris, 1995 (p890). Life and career Cariven u ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Durand
Paul Durand (1907–1977) was a French composer. He scored a number of films during the postwar era in France. He adapted the tune of "Bolero" for the 1950 hit song ''All My Love''.Tyler p.308 Selected filmography * '' Donne-moi tes yeux'' (1943) * '' La vie de plaisir'' (1944) * ''Scandal on the Champs-Élysées'' (1949) * ''The Girl from Maxim's'' (1950) * '' No Vacation for Mr. Mayor'' (1951) * ''Rasputin'' (1954) * '' The Contessa's Secret'' (1954) * '' Leguignon the Healer'' (1954) * ''Mademoiselle from Paris'' (1955) * ''The Whole Town Accuses'' (1956) * '' Paris, Palace Hotel'' (1956) *''A Kiss for a Killer'' (1957) * '' The Cow and I'' (1959) * ''Le Saint mène la danse'' (1960) * '' The Old Guard'' (1960) * '' Ravishing'' (1960) * ''Un soir sur la plage The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan McIver
Joseph Allan McIver (17 January 1904 – 15 June 1969) was a Canadian composer, arranger, pianist, and conductor. As a pianist he performed with orchestras in the Quebec region in his early career and was the longtime accompanist and arranger for Trio lyrique. He had a long and fruitful relationship with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, serving as a music director, composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist for nearly four decades. Early life, education, and career Born in Thetford Mines, McIver grew up in Sherbrooke. In his youth he studied the violin and the flute and was a piano student of Alfred Whitehead. He later studied harmony with Oscar O'Brien. He started his performance career playing for silent films in Montreal in 1926. He began performing on Canadian radio programs as a pianist and singer (baritone) around 1930. In the early 1930s he started appearing as a concert pianist with orchestras like the Ottawa Philharmonic Orchestra. Trio lyrique In 1932 McIver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucille Dumont
Lucille Dumont (born Lucelle Dumont; January 20, 1919 – July 29, 2016) was a Canadian singer and radio and television host. She is credited by the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame with having "served and personified Quebec popular music" and popularized the music of Quebec songwriters by singing their songs. She is also credited with being "at the birth of Quebec television," participating in Radio Canada's first television shows. She was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006 and was an Officer of the Order of Canada and an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. Early life Lucelle Dumont was born on January 20, 1919, in Montreal, Quebec. At a young age, she was encouraged by her mother – who possessed a somewhat unorthodox attitude for the time – to perform on a radio station. Career Dumont first performed under the name of Micheline Lalonde due to the then-prevailing societal stigma around being a performer. On October 16, 1935, at age 16, Dumo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Hélian
Jacques Mikaël Der Mikaëlian better known as Jacques Hélian (born in Paris, 7 June 1912 - died 29 June 1986), was a famous French orchestra conductor for French music-hall. Biography Born of an Armenian father (descendant of Armenian bourgeoisie) and a French mother, at 16 he entered school of dentistry, but left his studies to pursue his love of music studying saxophone with Raymond Legrand (Legrand married Jacques's sister Marcelle). He commenced his musical career playing saxo alto, saxo baryton and clarinet in Roland Dorsay's orchestra and later in Jo Bouillon's and in Ray Ventura's orchestra. He also performed in French live radio broadcasts releasing a number of recordings before World War II. Called for military service in 1939, he became a prisoner of war until his liberation in March 1943 for health reasons. After his release, he formed a small orchestra and performed on radio. After the liberation of France from Nazi occupation, Jacques Hélian gained huge populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
