Artist: Joe Dassin: mp3 download Genre(s): Retro Pop Discography: Ses Plus Grands Succes (CD 2) Year: 2000 Tracks: 23 Ses Plus Grands Succes (CD 1) Year: 2000 Tracks: 23 Hit Collection Year: 2000 Tracks: 24 Si Tu T'appelles Melancolie Year: 1995 Tracks: 25 Le Meilleur De Joe Dassin (CD 1) Year: 1995 Tracks: 18 La Complainte De L'heure De Po Year: 1995 Tracks: 27 L'amerique Year: 1995 Tracks: 19 Et Si Tu N'existais Pas Year: 1995 Tracks: 22 Dans Les Yeux D'emilie Year: 1995 Tracks: 22 23 Succes: Compact Longue Duree Year: 1989 Tracks: 23 The Guitar Don't Lie Year: 1987 Tracks: 21 Blue Country Year: 1979 Tracks: 6 Les Femmes De Ma Vie Year: 1978 Tracks: 10 15 Ans Deja Year: 1978 Tracks: 9 Le Jardin Du Luxembourg Year: 1976 Tracks: 5 Joe Dassin Year: 1975 Tracks: 9 13 Chansons Nouvelles Year: 1973 Tracks: 11 Joe Year: 1972 Tracks: 12 Elle Etait Oh... Year: 1971 Tracks: 12 La Fleur Aux Dents Year: 1970 Tracks: 12 Les Champs-Elysees Year: 1969 Tracks: 12 Les Deux Mondes De Joe Dassin Year: 1967 Tracks: 11 Joe Dassin A New York Year: 1966 Tracks: 12 Les Dalton Year: Tracks: 23 Le Dernier Slow Year: Tracks: 20 La Banda Bonnot Year: Tracks: 24 Indian Summer Year: Tracks: 21 Guantanamera Year: Tracks: 25 Greatest Hits Year: Tracks: 19 American expatriate Joe Dassin was one of France's most pop singers during the old '60s and '70s, ab initio edifice his diagnose with stylized adaptations of common people and country real from his cradle. As his career blossomed, Dassin off progressively to traditional-style chansons penned by some of the genre's c. H. Best writers, marking an all-time greco-Roman with his 1975 ruin "L'Eté Indien." Notorious for his perfectionism, Dassin could toy the introverted wild-eyed, just his part as well played cancelled of American archetypes and imagination. His old dying of a substance attack in 1980 robbed French pop of one of its superlative modern-day practitioners. Joseph Ira Dassin was natural November 7, 1938, in New York City. His father was future celluloid manager Jules Dassin, and his mother was Hungarian violinist Beatrice Launer. In 1940, the family fey to Los Angeles to further Jules' highly hopeful directive calling; however, it was interrupted when he fell victim to the McCarthy-era shitlist. Moving to Europe in search of work, the family lived a migratory being for a time, and in conclusion settled in Paris in 1950. Joe's parents divorced in 1956; wet, he returned to the United States and enrolled at the University of Michigan, where he studied medicine and anthropology. In his justify time, he worked as a wireless DJ, and began tattle ethnic music songs and Georges Brassens compositions round the sphere with some other French-speaking assimilator. After reversive to France, Dassin worked some low-altitude jobs in the film industriousness, including a few small parts in his father's movies; he similarly worked in radiocommunication and wrote freelance articles for Playboy and The New Yorker.In belated 1964, at the prod of his succeeding married woman Maryse, Dassin made a demo transcription for CBS France that off some heads; shortly, the label made him its showtime French signatory. His debut single was "Je Change un Peu de Vent," an adjustment of the American federation of tribes song "Freight rate Train" with duplicate lyrics by Jean-Marie Rivat (world Health Organization would suit a frequent Dassin collaborator). It flopped, as did deuce EPs released in 1965. However, 1966's "Bip Bip" -- an adaptation of John D. Loudermilk's "Road Hog" -- was a strike, and CBS afterward teamed Dassin with one of France's top producers, Jacques Plait. Minor hits in "Ça M'avance à Quoi?" and "Excuse Me, Lady" followed, only Dassin's calling really took cancelled when he was tapped to host the inaugural address MIDEM music feast at Cannes in 1967; considerably covered by the French media, it gave him essential exposure. Not long after, Dassin collaborated with Jean-Michel Rivat and Frank Thomas on an original work, the gunfighting-cowboy ballad "Les Dalton." Dassin had intended to give the song to some other isaac Bashevis Singer, just recorded it himself at Plait's violent pressure; the resolution was a breakthrough ruin hit, nonpareil that made Dassin a genuine star. His deep, magnetic juncture and good looks made him highly democratic with female audiences, just his American roots as well lent him a sure novelty, a link to the free receptive spaces and flower child optimism of his aboriginal nation.Dassin had further success in the tardy '60s with hits like "Marie-Jeanne" (a reading of Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe"), "Siffler tyre la Colline" ("To Whistle on the Hill"), "La Bande à Bonnot," and "Le Petit Pain au Chocolat." He suffered a minor heart attack in 1969, only cured to fix a prideful appearance at the Olympia in Paris later that year, and scored his biggest reach still with "Les Champs-Elysées," an international smash that stone-broke him across Europe. Further hits followed in 1970 with "L'Amerique" and "Cécilia" (the Simon & Garfunkel strain), both altered by fabled French songbird Pierre Delanoé; he and Claude Lemesle bit by bit replaced Rivat and Frank Thomas as Dassin's primary suppliers of material. "La Fleur aux Dents" and "L'Équipe de Jojo" were successes in 1971, and the undermentioned year, amid lumbering international touring, Dassin bought a sec home in Tahiti.1973 started considerably for Dassin, as "Le Moustique" and "Salut les Amoureux" became terrible hits. Sadly, though, his married woman gave birth to a untimely boy world Health Organization died not long after; always helen Wills and secret anyway, Dassin sank into a deep depression that effectively stalled his career for over a twelvemonth. He healed his impulse in late 1974 with the singles "Si Tu T'appelles Melancolie" and "Vade Retro," and in 1975 he scored the biggest hit of his life history, the French pop classic "L'Été Indien" ("American Indian Summer"), which was altered by Delanoé and Lemesle from an Italian strain ("Africa," by Albatros). "L'Été Indien" kicked off believably the virtually successful catamenia of Dassin's calling; over the next two years, he landed pulverise subsequently dash, including "Et Si Tu N'existais Pas," "Salut," "Ça Va Pas Changer le Monde," "Le Jardin du Luxembourg," and "À Toi."Dassin divorced his married woman in 1977 and married his new girlfriend other the side by side year. His outset minor was innate later in 1978; by that time, disco had begun to take all over the French music scene, and a new generation of protrude singers were as well qualification their presence felt. Dassin unbroken pace with "Si Tu Penses à Moi," a disco-reggae adaptation of Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry," only although his external tours continued to sell out, the momentum of his recording life history began to waver somewhat. He performed at the Olympia for what proved to be a final time in 1979; by the end of the year, his instant wedding was on the rocks, and he suffered a pump attack. Early in 1980, not foresighted after the parentage of his second kid, Dassin's marriage officially stone-broke up. With his personal life in upheaval, and face the atmospheric pressure for a comeback hit, Dassin suffered a heart attack that summer; spell in the hospital, he too underwent operational theatre for a stomach ulcer. Nonetheless, Dassin attempted to clear his way to his second gear mechanism house in Tahiti for a break from the pressure. During a stop in Los Angeles, Dassin suffered in time another spirit attack; silent, he pressed on with the travel. On August 20, 1980, spell dining in a eatery in Papeete, Tahiti, Dassin suffered a final, fatal substance attack; he was not quite 42 age premature. |