Eddie Barclay

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Eddie Barclay ; actually Édouard Ruault (born January 26, 1921 in Paris , † May 13, 2005 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) was a French music producer and music publisher .

Life

Édouard Ruault was the son of a cafe waiter and a postal worker. During his school days, his parents took over the Café de la Poste opposite the Gare de Lyon . They took him from school in 1936 so that he could help out in the café.

Beginnings

Édouard Ruault became a bar pianist in Pierre-Louis Guérin's nightclub and, in order to appear more American , took on the stage name Eddie Barclay . He got the idea for this name from a shop on avenue de l'Opera , where he bought his shirts. Out of admiration for everything American and especially Hollywood, he also grew a mustache à la Clark Gable . Before the Second World War he was friends with the artists Django Reinhardt and Boris Vian , and during the war he accompanied Django Reinhardt on his secret engagements. He had taught himself to play jazz on the piano through listening to contacts with Charles Delaunay (he never learned to read notes). Delaunay founded the record label Disques Swing in April 1937 , which specialized in American jazz. Eddie Barclay also made recordings for the label, such as his piano solo Péché-Mignon / Michèle Blues (recorded on June 19, 1942).

Own record labels

In February 1945, the founder of jazz and - Chanson - Fan Barclay next to a club in which existentialists met his future wife Nicole Vanden Busche the record company Blue Star . Her bathroom was initially used as a storage room for the 78 records, and Barclay himself delivered the records on a scooter. The first singles were recorded live in Guérin's nightclub as Eddie Barclay et son Orchester with the line- up Hubert Rostaing (clarinet), Christian Bellest (trumpet), Jack Diéval (piano) and Jerry Mengo (drums) on February 1, 1945; it was the tracks Goodnight Wherever You Are , A Lovely Day , I'll Walk Alone , Paper Dolls , Smiles and Blues for Sales . With Arthur Briggs (trumpet) and André Ekyan (saxophone), Body and Soul / You Belong to Me and One O'Clock Jump / Rosetta were created on March 19, 1945 . In 1947 Barclay founded his own jazz band with Harry Cooper (trumpet), Jean-Pierre Sasson (electric guitar) and Bobby Guidott (bass). In January 1947 he signed the first American jazz bands, including Tyree Glenn & His Orchestra , for the new label. By March 1947 Django Reinhardt had made recordings for the Paris label Swing; from April 1947 onwards he created six sessions for Blue Star with Reinhardt . The first session in the line-up Django Reinhardt (guitar), his brother Joseph Reinhardt (guitar), Michel de Villers (alto saxophone), Willy Lockwood (bass), Eddie Bernard (piano) and Al Craig (drums) took place on April 16, 1947 in the Pathé recording studios in Paris . On July 6, 1947, Django Reinhardt recorded his Blues for Barclay for Blue Star (republished on Pêche à la Mouche: The Great Blue Star Sessions 1947/1953 ). It was recorded in Barclays Technisonor Studio, which he had taken over from the Americans (AFN) in 1946. In May 1949 he appeared as a co-organizer of the Festival International 1949 de Jazz . In 1954, Barclay co-founded Jazz Magazine , which had a monthly circulation of 80,000.

In April 1954, he and his wife Nicole founded the Barclay Records label , which continued its predecessor Blue Star as a sub-label and initially specialized in jazz recordings in LP format. On April 17, 1954, the guitarist René Thomas and his orchestra recorded eight tracks for the LP René Thomas and his Orchestra in the Magellan recording studio in Paris , which are considered the first recordings for the Barclay catalog. However, this LP appeared numerically in the Barclay catalog with catalog no. 84030. The numerically first LP in the catalog came from trombonist Jimmy Archey with Georges Arvanitas & Michel Attenoux et son Orchester (LP Jazztime Paris , B 84001, recorded on January 27, 1955).

Discoveries

With artists like Dalida (from 1956), Henri Salvador (1958), Charles Aznavour (1959), Brigitte Bardot (1961), Jacques Brel (1961), Françoise Hardy (1962) and Juliette Gréco (1972), Barclay Records became the most important independent Label for the French chanson . The first success was Eddie Constantine's duet with his daughter Tania at L'homme et l'enfant (B 70007), which sold a total of 200,000 times from November 1955 and topped the French charts for 11 weeks from December 1955 .

Dalida's debut took place on April 9, 1956 with the French version of Stranger in Paradise (Etrangère au Paradis) at the Paris Olympia ; there she discovered Eddie Barclay, who mostly used Raymond Lefèvre as orchestral accompaniment for her recordings . On February 8, 1957, the third single Bambino / Por favor / Aime-moi / Eh! ben ' (70068) on the market. This recording was made with the Lefèvre orchestra in the label's own recording studio (1,800 m²) in Rue Hoche 9 in Paris , for which Barclay had hired the German sound engineer Gerhard Lehner (born January 26, 1921 in Gera, † May 13, 2005). The record was the number one hit on the French charts for a total of 31 weeks from April 1957 . On September 19, 1957, Dalida was the first female artist in France - and Barclay Records too - to receive the first gold record for more than 300,000 copies sold by Bambino .

Eddie and Nicole Barclay then acted as music producers for the first time for the Chet Baker quartet "Featuring Dick Twardzik ", which recorded a total of eight tracks for Barclay Records on October 11 and 14, 1955 . On June 24, 1957, Barclay put together a 20-man jazz band in which Stéphane Grappelli (violin) and Kenny Clarke (drums) played 14 titles . Quincy Jones , whom Nicole brought in and made musical director of Barclay Records , characterized Nicole Barclay in his autobiography as a talented businessman and her husband Eddie as a "handsome orchestra director and composer who loved life and women."

Eddie Barclay was also the discoverer of Mireille Mathieu . She made her debut on November 20, 1965 at the Olympia Theater in the Palmarès des Chansons competition , where Barclay became aware of her. After she had been able to sign a contract with the Olympic Theater, she also got a recording contract with Barclay Records in December 1965 and released a live LP from her Olympic performance in the same month (LP En Direct de l'Olympia , 80330; December 1966 ). In June 1967 this LP reached number 14 in the German LP charts. From 1966 Mireille Mathieu played a few singles for the Barclay label; the first single was Mon Credo (60683; March 1966), it was followed by C'Est ton nom (60684; March 1966). Mon credo developed into an immense success, which manifested itself in their first number one hit in the French charts and 1.7 million copies sold.

He discovered a variety of other French talents and produced music for Jacques Brel , among others , who had his breakthrough at Barclay Records from 1961. Also Eddy Mitchell (1960) and the Kelly Family (1984) were at Barclay Records. The Kellys arrived in Paris in the spring of 1983, in the winter of 1983 they played on the Place Saint-Michel , and in bad weather in the nearby metro station . Barcley had heard of the Kellys and went down to the Paris Métro for the first time in 30 years to hear their music.

meaning

By this time Barclay Records had risen to become the largest independent label in France. In May 1966 the label had a 40% share of the French pop market. The music publisher "Nouvelles Editions Barclay" founded by Barclay in November 1964 was also the largest independent music publisher in France, through which the original of My Way is also registered.

When Barclay sold its label to Polygram in July 1978 , it already had 350 employees. He kept a stake of 20% and remained managing director until 1983. In 1988 his autobiography Que la fête continue ("So that the party goes on") was published.

Pascal Nègre from the French Universal Music summarized Barclay's achievements: "Without Eddie Barclay, the French chanson would not have the meaning it has today."

Marriages

Barclay was married a total of nine times. Here is the list of spouses (marriage duration in brackets):

  • Michèle Barraud (1945–1947)
  • Nicole Vandenbusche (1949–1964)
  • Marie Christine Steinberg (1965–1969)
  • Béatrice Chatelier (1970–1972)
  • Michèle Demazures (1973–1982)
  • Danièle Poinsot (1982-1983)
  • Cathy Esposito (1984-1987)
  • Caroline Giganti (1988-1998)
  • Karen Teharuru (Tiare) (from 2002)

Together with Zsa Zsa Gabor , he tops the list of multiple marriages worldwide.

His second wife, Nicole Vandenbusche, who sang in his band under the name Eve Williams in Guérin's nightclub, founded his Blue Star label and Jazz Magazine with him (1954). In December 1948, Eddie Barclay founded the magazine "Jazz News", which also advertised Blue Star records. Together with Charles Delaunay, Nicole Barclay organized the Paris Jazz Festival in the summer of 1948, which took place for eight days from May 8, 1949. Barclay was dating Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías from 1970 and introduced her to her future husband, the singer of the Rolling Stones , Mick Jagger .

Eddie Barclay died of a heart attack in a hospital in Paris . His grave, decorated with fake long-playing records, lies on the Cimetière Marine de St. Tropez .

Film music

  • 1956: three o'clock at night
  • 1958: Every day holds a secret (Chaque jour a son secret)
  • 1964: Jack Clifton chases Vostok III (Coplan agent secret FX 18)
  • 1965: Shoot as long as you can (L'arme à gauche)
  • 1994: The Tenderness of the Tiger (Wonderboy)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guérin later became director of the famous Parisian Lido
  2. ↑ Michael Dregni, Django: The Life And Music of a Gypsy Legend , 2004, p. 234 f.
  3. ↑ a b Billboard Magazine, May 30, 1970, The Barcley Story , p. 68
  4. ↑ Other titles in the session were Vette , Swing 48 , Anniversary Song , For Sentimental Reasons , Danse Norvegienne , and Folie a Amphion . Hubert Rostaing, Joseph Reinhardt, Ladislas Czabanyck, Andre Jordan were involved
  5. ↑ Bertrand Dicale, Les chansons qui ont tout changé , 2011 o. S .
  6. ↑ Quincy Jones Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Random House 2002
  7. ↑ Chartsurfer.de on the LP En Direct de l'Olympia
  8. ^ Daniel Ichbiah, 50 ans des chansons Françaises , 2012, p. 1929
  9. ↑ Joey Kelly, Hysteria of the Body: The Course of My Life , 2011, no p.
  10. ↑ Billboard Magazine, May 28, 1966, Hot Roaster Making Barclay a Pop Giant , p. 32
  11. ↑ Billboard Magazine, May 30, 1970, They Did it Marouani's Way , p. 70
  12. ^ John Shepherd / David Horn / Peter Wicke / Dave Laing / Paul Oliver, Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Media , Volume 1, p. 690
  13. ↑ Billboard Magazine, May 28, 2005, Biz Legend Barclay Dies , p. 61
  14. ↑ Echolalistes, List De Mariees Et Maries Multiples Voire Compulsifs
  15. ^ Paul Combs, Dameronia , 2012, p. 95
personal data
SURNAME Barclay, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruault, Édouard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French music producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2005
Place of death Boulogne-Billancourt