Franck Pourcel

soft music

Frank Pourcil

leggera

Released in 1968 on the LP Amour Danse et Violons vol 31
This very famous song from Columbian composer Eliseo Herrera

La Burrita

Les feuilles mortes: Prévert/Cosma
One of the most famous french song around the world
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Les Feuilles Mortes

All That Matters Piano Version

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beegRWYRKDY&feature=youtu.be

Piano:Murtadha Mansour.
 Music Arranging: Jaffer Ibrahim.
بيانو: مرتضى منصور
عزف مصاحب وتوزيع: جعفر ابراهيم

Song From A Secret Garden

Flots du Danube

Le beau Danube bleu

I will survive

Titles composed by Farid El Atrash, for Franck Pourcel, and released on this new downloadable CD

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Leila (Danse De Leïla)

Eddie Calvert - Lonelyness (3-29)(www.muzico.ru)

a medley of some famous songs created by Edith Piaf. This medley included among other tracks on Franck Pourcel's EDITH ET POURCEL

MEDLEY (la Goualante Du Pauvre Jean.Mon Manege A Moi..Milord)

Song composed specially for Franck, by Farid El Atrash.
The EP was first released in 1963 "Mosaïque Orientale", and remastered in 2014 for download only

Nougoum Elleïl

Romantica

Music composed by Farid El Atrash for Franck Pourcel

Habib Elomr (Amour De Ma Vie)

Won the Eurovision song contest in 1960.
The song was interpreted by Jacqueline Boyer
The orchestra was conducted by Franck Pourcel

Tom Pillibi

Mantovani Orchestra - Charmane
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Mantovani Orchestra - Charmane

Mantovani Orchestra - Green Sleeves
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Mantovani Orchestra - Green Sleeves

Mantovani Orchestra - Summertime  In Venice
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Mantovani Orchestra - Summertime  In Venice

soundtrack from the film
First released in 1972 remastered in 2012


The Magnificent Seven (Les 7 mercenaires)

Rchrd Clydrmn - A Comme Amour

In performance at the White House - Burt Bacharach & Hal David tribute

Diana Krall -   The Look of Love - Burt Bacharach & Hal David tribute

A petite (1st movement) version of this classic piece from J. Brahms

HUNGARIAN DANCE NO.4

Hungarian Dance #4 (petite arrangment) ~ Brahms

released in 1975 on the album AMOUR DANSE ET VIOLONS vol 45

Chuva do Brasil

from the album "Edith et Pourcel"
Edith Piaf's songs "à la Pourcel"
This CD is included in the 4CD box special 100th birth anniversary

MEDLEY (La foule,L'accordeoniste,Padam...l' orgue des amoureux)

Born in Marseilles August 11, 1913
His father, a musician in the navy in Marseilles, starts teaching him music at 6 years old
He learns violin at the Conservatoire in Marseilles but alsos drums because he loves jazz. Then he spends a year in Paris at the Conservatoire.
1931: he works as a violonist at the Théâtre des Variétés in marseilles
June 10, 1939 he marries Odette.
At that period he becomes the musical director of some singers, among them Yves Montand, and Lucienne Boyer, with whom he is going to tour the world.
1946: he has a baby- girl named Françoise.
1952: he emigrates to US, and get the Green card and the musician  Union card, because he wants to produce a big band orchestra.
1953, a french producer Maurice Tézé, calls him back in France to record his first record Blue Tango and the follow up Limelight
He gets his first success with this record, and from now, all french singers want to hire Franck, called ‘The American » to be their musical director.
1954 he records his first LP under the label Pathé-Marconi- he will record 9 LPs in 3 years. and will create the serie Amour Danse et Violons which will include 54 LPs
1956, he records his version of  Only You, the success created by yhe Platters ; he will sell over 3 millions copies in the US
Between 1956 and 1972 he is the regular conductor for France at the Eurovision song contest.
1958 he starts recording classical music ; with his serie Pages Célèbres he will record popular classical pieces with 80 musicians, so leading his « Varieties » public to the discovery and appreciation of classical music.
His Pages Célèbres give him the chance to direct famous classical orchestras like :

The London Symphony orchestra
The Society of Concerts for the Conservatoirte
The BBC orchestra ar the Royal Festival Hall
The Lamoureux Orchestra at the Salle Pleyel

His records are distributed in over 50 countries
1962: he composes together with Paul Mauriat and Raymond Lefèvre the famous hit « Chariot » created by Petula Clark and followed up by Little Peggy March as « I will follow Him ».
In 1992 the song will become the main theme of the motion picture Sister Act 1 & 2.

He will record until 1995 with EMI

He achieves, among many other distinctions:

1956: The Grand prix du disque Français
1957: The Grand prix du disque in Brazil
1963: The Golden disc in Venezuela
1965: Amsterdam: The Edison Price (The equivalent of the film Oscars) for his orchestrations of Pop music
1965: Award of the “DISQUE POPULAIRE”
1967: Back to the USA for an important promotion journey. He conducts in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Hollywood…
1968: Golden disc in Colombia for his popularity in this country-Disco Mundo
1969: Grand Prix du disque of the Charles Cros Academy in Paris
1970: Gold record in Japan, for the album “FOR YOUR LOVELY BABY”
1976:Gold record in Japan for “ADORO”

Franck has broken all the selling records of the European orchestras

He dies on November 12, 2000 in Neuilly-France, from Parkinson desease.

Active years: 50s,60s,70s,80s,90s.
