Ricky Shayne (born 4 June 1944) is a pop singer and an actor of French and Lebanese descent who was popular in Europe in the
1960s, especially in
Germanophone
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countries.
Biography
Shayne was born George Albert Tabett on 4 June 1944 in
Cairo
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,
Egypt
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, to a
Lebanese father and a French mother.
[Ich bin ein Rock'n'Roller: Ricky Shayne gibt Kiosk auf]
("I'm a Rock'n'Roller :
Ricky Shayne gives up kiosk"), n-tv
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History
n-tv beg ...
, 3 November 2010 (in German) Young Tabett moved to Paris when he was 15 years old, with his mother, and took music lessons for two years.
He then moved to Italy where, in 1965, under the stage name "Ricky Shayne," he had his first
hit
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* Hit, a fictional character from '' Dragon Ball Super''
* Homicide International Trust, or HIT, a fictional organization ...
with the single "Uno dei Mods" ("One of the Mods"), written by
Gianni Meccia
Giovanni "Gianni" Meccia (born 2 June 1931) is an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. He is often associated with Jimmy Fontana.
Life and career
Born in Ferrara, in 1950 Meccia moved to Rome to pursue an acting caree ...
and
Franco Migliacci
Francesco "Franco" Migliacci (born 28 October 1930 in Mantua) is a lyricist, producer, and actor.
Biography
He studied in Florence where his family had settled, here he entered in a competition for young players, in which he won a stay of ...
. It was featured in the Italian-German 1966 musical film ' (The battle of the Mods)
La battaglia dei Mods
' (1966), IMDb
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in which Shayne played the role of a "disaffected young man" and sang. The film also featured
Udo Jürgens
Udo Jürgens (born Jürgen Udo Bockelmann; 30 September 1934 – 21 December 2014) was an Austrian composer and singer of popular music whose career spanned over 50 years. He won the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 for Austria, composed close ...
,
Joachim Fuchsberger
Joachim "Blacky" Fuchsberger (pronounced ; 11 March 1927 – 11 September 2014) was a German actor and television host, best known to a wide German-speaking audience as one of the recurring actors in various Edgar Wallace movies (often a Detecti ...
,
Elga Andersen
Elga Andersen (née Helga Hymen or Hymmen) (2 February 1935 – 7 December 1994) was a German actress and singer. She starred in more than one dozen French films in the 1950s and 1960s and also debuted as a recording artist in the 1950s. She per ...
, and others, and Shayne moved to (Germany) for the duration of the production.
While in Germany, Shayne recorded the single "Ich sprenge alle Ketten" ("I bust all the chains"), composed by then-unknowns
Giorgio Moroder and
Michael Holm
Michael Holm (born Lothar Walter; on 29 July 1943) is a German singer, musician, songwriter and record producer.
He is primarily known as a singer of Schlager music. Although his first appearance in the hit parade was in 1962 ("Lauter Schön ...
, which became a national hit and made Shayne an idol among young German fans of pop music. Shayne followed this success with the 1967 singles "Das hat die Welt noch nicht gesehn" ("The world has not yet seen that"), "Es wird ein Bettler zum König" ("Beggar becomes king"), and "Ich mache keine Komplimente" ("I make no compliments").
In 1971, Shayne released his German version of the international hit song "
Mamy Blue
"Mamy Blue" is a 1970 song by French songwriter Hubert Giraud. Originally written with French lyrics, the song was rendered in English in 1971 to become an international hit for the Pop-Tops, Joël Daydé ( fr) and Roger Whittaker. A hit in It ...
" that was originally composed in French by
Hubert Giraud
Hubert Yves Adrian Giraud (3 March 1920 – 16 January 2016) was a French composer and lyricist.
Career
Giraud began his career playing the harmonica with Django Reinhardt's jazz group, the Quintette du Hot Club de France. In 1941, he was recr ...
, which became his greatest success, peaking at No. 7 in the country's national chart. His english version of "Mamy blue" was a No. 8 hit in france, top ten hits in french Belgium and Japan and No. 1 in Argentina and Brazil. The same year, he starred in the German comedy ''Hurra, wir sind mal wieder Junggesellen!'' (').
He moved to the United States in 1975, occasionally returning to Germany for business ventures and nostalgia concerts.
Discography
Singles
* 1967: "Ich sprenge alle Ketten"
* 1967: "Heiss wie ein Vulkan"
* 1968: "Du bist zu schön, um allein zu sein"
* 1968: "Buona Notte, Maria"
* 1969: "Ich mache keine Komplimente"
See also
*
Mods and rockers
References
Other sources
* "Ricky Shayne" by Roberto Ruggeri, in G. Castaldo (editor) ''Dizionario della canzone italiana'', Curcio, 1990 (in Italian)
External links
*
Mods v Rockers: Two tribes go to war by
Jon Savage
Jon Savage (born Jonathan Malcolm Sage; 2 September 1953 in Paddington, London) is an English writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his history of the Sex Pistols and punk music, ''England's Dreaming'', published in 199 ...
, BBC, 21 October 2014
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1944 births
Schlager musicians
20th-century Egyptian male singers
Living people
Hansa Records artists