Camille Sauvage

Camille André Sauvage ( pseudonyms : Eric Framond and Willy Lee , born April 4, 1910 in Ferrière-la-Petite , Nord-Pas-de-Calais , † October 30, 1981 in Paris ) was a French clarinetist , band leader , film composer and arranger .

Life

Sauvage's father was a railroad engineer. Camille started playing the violin at an early age and completed a classical music education at the Valenciennes Conservatory and then at the Conservatoire de Paris . In the early 1940s he began to be interested in American jazz and played as a saxophonist and clarinetist in the orchestras of Ray Ventura and Raymond Legrand (1943/44). He worked with jazz musicians such as Hubert Rostaing , Noël Chiboust , Aimé Barelli , André Paquinet , Loulou Gasté , Armand Molinetti and Michel Warlop . After the end of the war, he toured northern France and Belgium with his own band. The title Seven Come Eleven (Pacific JF 6.001) was released on the French label Pacific around 1946 , recorded by Camille Sauvage & son Orchester . On Odeon he published his cover version of the Glenn Miller hit In the Mood and the vocal number Slim Boogie (Odeon 281739) The other repertoire of his Odeon recordings consisted of cheerful numbers such as Hello, baby Mademoiselle, Fifi jaune d'oeuf or Sous le ciel bleu you Texas .

Sauvage founded a dance orchestra in 1947; In 1948 he appeared on the RTF radio broadcasts Surprise-party and had success between 1948 and 1953 with titles such as Oh! Venez au Vénéuzela, Ah! Qu'elle est belle ma chanson, La mi-août, Un petit coup de rouge, Bella Musica or Marie s'promène , which he recorded for Philips from 1951 and for RCA Records and Columbia Records from 1954 . From the 1950s his orchestra played a mixture of easy listening , Latin , soul , pop and jazz music . At the end of the 1950s he had to give up the orchestra. In the 1960s Sauvage increasingly incorporated electrically amplified instruments into his record productions. He also composed numerous film scores, including a. for films like Le hasard mène l'enquête (1951), Chaque minute compte (1960), L'assassin viendra ce soir (1962) or La Malédiction de Belphégor (1967). He also experimented with electronic music for several soundtracks such as Adventures of a Private Eye (1977) . For the label Editions Montparnasse 2000 he recorded a number of records that were intended as background music for radio, television and cinema.

Filmography (selection)

• 1955: At night on Montmartre (Les nuits de Montmartre)
• 1960: The trail leads to Caracas (Le bal des espions)
• 1960: The girls traffickers of Paris (Chaque minute compte)
• 1965: The Eerie Murderer (Sursis pour un espion)
• 1969: Wild Games - Hot Girls (Trafic de filles)
• 1970: In the claws of the invisible (La vie amoureuse de l'homme invisible)
• 1971: frustration
• 1976: Paris intimate (Paris porno)

Web links

• Detailed portrait (French)
• Camille Sauvage in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Camille Sauvage at Discogs (English)
• Compositions of film music on cinema-francais.fr (French)