Only you (and you alone)

i like… trains.
and slowed songs, I sometimes do edits of it or just make my own songs.

Jens Christian Grün (Jens Gruen) - geb. 1965, in Ulm-Söflingen
Guitar, Vocal, Keyboard - Piano
Selfmademan -  autodidaktischer Musiker seit 45 Jahren

War im Gospelchor - Langenau und bleibt ihm treu…

„Musik muss Spass machen - darf aber auch gerne mal Traurig sein“
Zitat vom Balladenmann - der schon immer nur Ballade kann … nicht ganz ernst gemeint

Seit 2014 an Parkinson erkrankt. 
Mag seine Parkinsongruppe, seine Therapeuten,
jegliche Art von Musik - Live oder von Konserve -
SWR1 und seinen Marcello. Arbeitet gerne mit der
Nachbarschaftshilfe „gemeinsam“ zusammen.

Die Musik von Peter Maffay, Smokie, Mark Knopfler  und Queen hat mich schon immer begleitet und fasziniert. Ich entdecke gerade die klassische Musik für mich….. und mache immer weiter ..

Meine Haupt-Instrumente sind:
Stimme - na ja - manchmal scho …
Willis Klavier - Landshut - 1980 - Deutschland
Roland V-Piano - Japan
Tanglewood Acc Sundance Pro - UK
Framus Texan 5/196 - 1964 - Deutschland 
Kirkland Acc - US
Resch Mellotron - MD4000D - Sweden
iPad 
Korg iS40 - Japan
Roland SC8850 - Japan
Roland JV800 - Japan

Immer wieder Montags:
Yamaha C5 (made in England) - pausiert

مُدَوِنْ ومُتلذِذ مُوسيقي 🛸 ♫ 🎢

قنواتي الاخرى تحت

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.


Only you (and you alone)

Franck Pourcel