Rare live performances and historical moments from the french master of lounge and easy listening
Franck est considéré dans le monde entier comme le créateur de la musique d'ambiance. Il a enregistré plus de 2000 titres, variété et classiques dans les série Amour Danse et violons et Pages Célèbres avec son style inimitable. Pour la première fois un DVD nous raconte le monde musical en image.
Tous ses enregistrements sont (p) Warner Music France

Franck Pourcel : L'inimitable the DVD playlist

from the album Amour danse et violons 21 released in 1964 Warner Music

ADV 21

Et pourtant

ADV 25

What's New Pussycat

track included in the DVD L'INIMITABLE (2021)

ADV 23

Le temps

From Pages Celebres vol 4
track included in the DVD L'INIMITABLE

Marche Militaire en re majeur

track from the album Musique et couleurs Amour Danse et violons 29 released in 1968, and included in the DVD L'INIMITABLE

ADV 29

Le Neon

From "Le carnaval des animaux"
Composer : St Saens

Le cygne

Mon coeur est un violon

I love you

First recording on the LP: IN A NOSTALGIA MOOD (1983)

Tweedle dee

composed by Charles Aznavour this song was first released on the album Amour Danse et violons vol 17

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Il faut savoir

Western

La Joie d'aimer (The Unforgiven) (Du film "Le Vent dans la plaine")

Hi-Fi 77 - 20 Top Instrumentals

Petite fleur (Remasterisé En 2014)

Love Story

Dr Zhivago (Lara's Theme)

Blue Tango (Remasterisé En 2014)

Platinum collection

Tous les bateaux, tous les oiseaux

Pages célèbres, Vol. 9

Danse des clowns (De "Songe d'une nuit d'été" ; Remasterisé en 2012)

Chanson composée par Franck Pourcel
Paroles Charles Aznavour
Composed by Franck Pourcel/Lyrics Charles Aznavour

In Spanish: "Con"

Avec

Amour, danse et violons n°50

Marching Violins (Remasterisé en 2019)

100 All Time Greatest Hits

Aranjuez mon amour

Mouvement perpétuel

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.
