From the album HiFi 77 20 TOPs Instrumentals
First release in 1977, and remastered in 2014 for a special 4 CDs box: Coffret 2014

Holiday for strings

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.


Mijn goedheid is mijn zwakte.

"Zachte heelmeesters maken stinkende wonden."
One person can break the fabric of an entire group. If you don't care about this then why do we? E. Pompuras

From France: Florian candy

Surge recovery.
72 uur vasten, 30g proteine. Je moet eten in het licht anders maak insuline van je eten vetcellen ipv dat je cellen de glucose opnemen. in je spieren zitten insulinereceptoren die je slank houden. Cardio verhoogt je cortisol, het is alleen goed voor mental health (endorphines). Je moet gewicht heffen voor spieren om af te vallen en het vasten breken met 30g proteine.
Er moet 8 uur tussen je maaltijden 1 en 2 zitten (alleen in het licht).

Wisdom 2023
"One who gives a good answer is both wrong and right." - Herman van Veen

"Relationships are not problems that you solve, they are paradoxes that you manage." - E. Perel

Sommigen vonden je goedheid een zwakte. Maar ik vind dat je jezelf niet teveel aan anderen moet aanpassen.

Being bullied is social death. 90% of people who are being bullied at work disappear from their jobs. Fired, move on, die form stress-related illness or they die A. Cuddy. 


"Nostalgia is a very strong and prone to bias memory/emotion, so it is perfectly misused for propaganda purposed like the slogan 'Make America Great Again' was used. - Dr. J. Shaw

“You want to just fight for what you believe in; you don’t want to be fighting to survive and I think there’s a big difference.”

- Economic wellfare is extremely important for freedom and human rights, for it overdominates the geopolitical predation of foreign dictatorships.

- Rats can laugh thus the importance of play and simulating morals and danger does exist in aminals like it exists in humans.

- It has been known for 25 years in research that men tend to like things more and women tend to like other humans more (as shown by personality tests). In fact, research has suggested that the more equalitarian a state is, the bigger the difference between (more stereotypical) the occupational choices that are being made by both opposing genders becomes. Engineers vs. nurses, ect. So equal freedom and opportunities of choice lead to biological tendicies (taken heterosexuality is the standard here).

- The  conscience has the purpose of improving an organisms' efficiency, however, while being fragile at the same time, so it has reasons to improve it.

Wisdom 2022:
- There is a clear difference between responsibility and ownership. However, some people tend to often confuse the two.
- People are enjoying their rights but have no sense of the duty that is necessary to keep them.
- I have spoken to 2 people from NASA and they are both worried for the future of our planet. Fearsome of power and big companies.

Holiday for strings

Franck Pourcel