Eddy Mitchell
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Eddy Mitchell is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks), taking his name from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine
(later the star of Jean-Luc Godard
's Alphaville). The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Le Golf Drouot before signing to Barclay Records
and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records.
Heavily influenced by American rock & roll, Mitchell (who went solo in 1963) has often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis
and Nashville, Tennessee
. Guitarist Big Jim Sullivan
, Jimmy Page
and drummer Bobby Graham
were among the British session musicians who regularly supported him in London. For his American recordings he employed session men such as Roger Hawkins
, David Hood
, Jimmy Johnson
, Kenneth Buttrey, Reggie Young
, David Briggs
, Charlie McCoy
and others.
He is the voice of Flappy in the French version of the 2005 film of The Magic Roundabout
.
Eddie Constantine
Eddie Constantine was an American-born French actor and singer who spent his career working in Europe....
(later the star of Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....
's Alphaville). The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Le Golf Drouot before signing to Barclay Records
Barclay Records
Barclay Records is a French record label founded in the mid-1950s by Eddie Barclay under the alias, Edouard Ruault. Eddie Barclay also founded the Riviera label in the early-1950s....
and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records.
Heavily influenced by American rock & roll, Mitchell (who went solo in 1963) has often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
and Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
. Guitarist Big Jim Sullivan
Big Jim Sullivan
Big Jim Sullivan is an English musician, whose career started in 1959. He is best known as a session guitarist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Sullivan was one of the most "in-demand" studio musicians in the UK, and performed in more than one thousand charting singles over his career...
, Jimmy Page
Jimmy Page
James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.Jimmy Page...
and drummer Bobby Graham
Bobby Graham
Bobby Graham was an English session drummer, composer, arranger and record producer. Shel Talmy, who produced The Kinks, David Bowie and The Who, described Graham as "the greatest drummer the UK has ever produced."...
were among the British session musicians who regularly supported him in London. For his American recordings he employed session men such as Roger Hawkins
Roger Hawkins
Roger G Hawkins , is an American drummer best known for playing as part of the studio backing band known as The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section of Alabama...
, David Hood
David Hood
David Hood , is a bassist from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He also plays the trombone and is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame....
, Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson (musician)
Jimmy Johnson is an American a member of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section that was attached to FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for a period in the 1960s and 1970s, and later was the a founder of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio located at first on 3614 Jackson Highway in Sheffield, Alabama and at...
, Kenneth Buttrey, Reggie Young
Reggie Young
Reggie Young was lead guitarist in the American Sound Studios Band , and is a leading session musician. He played on various recordings with artists such as Elvis Presley, B.J. Thomas, John Prine, Dusty Springfield, J.J...
, David Briggs
David Briggs
David Briggs may refer to:*David Briggs , American record producer*David Briggs , American keyboardist and record producer*David Briggs , English organist and composer...
, Charlie McCoy
Charlie McCoy
Charles "Charlie" Ray McCoy is an American musician noted for his harmonica playing. In his career, McCoy has backed several notable musicians including Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Tom Astor, Elvis Presley and Ween. He has also recorded thirty-seven studio albums, including fourteen for Monument Records...
and others.
He is the voice of Flappy in the French version of the 2005 film of The Magic Roundabout
The Magic Roundabout (film)
The Magic Roundabout, , is a 2005 British computer-animated film based on the television series of the same name...
.
Filmography
- Les Parisiennes, in the segment Ella (Jacques PoitrenaudJacques PoitrenaudJacques Poitrenaud, born May 22 1922, in Lille, died April 5 2005 in Paris, is a French film director and actor.- Director :* 1956 : Saint-Germain-en-Laye, cité royale * 1957 : Enfants, Touraine...
,1962 - Comment réussir en amour (Michel BoisrondMichel BoisrondMichel Jacques Boisrond was a French film director and writer...
, 1963) - NanouNanouNanou is a town in the Boromo Department of Balé Province in south-western Burkina Faso in Africa. The town has a population of 2376.-References:Girls Name, nickname for An, or Anne, in French, origin in Hebrew language, meaning the loveliness....
, TV series (Georges Régnier, 1970) - Ça va plaire, TV musical (Jean-Pierre CasselJean-Pierre CasselJean-Pierre Cassel was a French actor.-Life and career:Cassel was born Jean-Pierre Crochon in Paris, the son of Louise-Marguerite , an opera singer, and Georges Crochon, a doctor. Cassel was discovered by Gene Kelly as he tap danced on stage, and later cast in the 1957 film The Happy Road...
et Bernard Lion, 1980) - Gaston Lapouge, TV film (Frank Apprederis, 1981)
- Coup de torchonCoup de TorchonCoup de Torchon is a 1981 French film adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film follows the novel relatively faithfully, but changes its setting from a West Texas boom town to a small town in French West Africa.-Plot:Lucien Cordier is an...
(Bertrand TavernierBertrand TavernierBertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...
, 1981) - Attention! Une femme peut en cacher une autre (Georges LautnerGeorges LautnerGeorges Lautner is a French film director and screenwriter.He was born in Nice, the son of actress Renée Saint-Cyr.- As director :* 1958 : La Môme aux boutons* 1960 : Arrêtez les tambours* 1960 : Marche ou crève...
, 1983) - Ronde de nuit (Jean-Claude Missiaen, 1984)
- A mort l'arbitre! (Jean-Pierre MockyJean-Pierre MockyJean-Pierre Mocky is the pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer...
, 1983) - Frankenstein 90 (Alain JessuaAlain JessuaAlain Jessua is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed ten films between 1956 and 1997. His 1967 film Jeu de massacre was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Screenplay....
, 1984) - La Galette du roi (Jean-Michel RibesJean-Michel RibesJean-Michel Ribes is a French actor, playwright, screenwriter, theatre director and film maker. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point.- Awards :* 2001: Plaisir du Théâtre Award...
, 1986) - I Love YouI Love You (1986 film)I Love You is a 1986 French-Italian drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Christopher Lambert - Michel * Eddy Mitchell - Yves* Flora Barillaro - Maria...
(Marco Ferreri, 1986) - Autour de minuit (Round MidnightRound Midnight (film)Round Midnight is a 1986 film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by David Rayfiel and Bertrand Tavernier. It tells the story of an African American tenor saxophone player in Paris in the 1950s who is befriended by an unsuccessful French graphic designer who idolizes the musician and who...
)(cameo) (Bertrand TavernierBertrand TavernierBertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...
, 1986) - Un père et passe (Sébastien Grall, 1989)
- Promotion canapé (Didier Kaminka, 1990)
- Until the End of the WorldUntil the End of the WorldUntil the End of the World is a 1991 film by the German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the screenplay was written by American filmmaker Michael Almereyda...
(Bis ans Ende der Welt) (Wim WendersWim WendersErnst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
, 1991) - La Totale!La Totale!-Plot:Everyone thinks that François Voisin is a model executive with a calm and orderly life, but it is only a front. In reality, François is a secret agent, one of the best: in the game he is nicknamed l'Épée, "the Sword". But even as he infiltrates arms-smuggling rings and prevents terrorist...
(Claude ZidiClaude ZidiClaude Zidi is a French film director and screenwriter who is noted for his mainstream burlesque comedies. Born in Paris, he started as a cameraman and then cinematographer, and made his directorial and screenwriting debut in 1971...
, 1991) - Ville à vendre (Jean-Pierre MockyJean-Pierre MockyJean-Pierre Mocky is the pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer...
, 1992) - La Cité de la peurLa Cité de la peurLa Cité de la peur, or Le film de Les Nuls, is a French comedy film written by the comedy group Les Nuls and directed by Alain Berbérian in 1994....
(Alain BerbérianAlain BerbérianAlain Berbérian is a French film director and writer of Armenian descent.-Filmography:Director:* 1989 : ABCD Nuls , with Les Nuls* 1990 : Histoire de la télévision , with Les Nuls...
, 1994) - Le bonheur est dans le pré (Étienne ChatiliezÉtienne ChatiliezÉtienne Chatiliez is a French film director. He was born in Roubaix, France.After starting out directing many advertising clips, he is now a well-known director of feature-length films with some success.- Filmography :...
, 1995) - Cuisine américaine (Jean-Yves Pitoun, 1998)
- Kitchendales (Chantal Lauby, 2000)
- Lovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérésLovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérésLovely Rita, sainte patronne des cas désespérés is a French film directed by Stéphane Clavier in 2003.- Synopsis :Accounts expert Edgar Lamark is auditing the naval base of Thierry Ferrand on the Côte d'Azur is offered a prostitute recruited from a special website, but has to get ready of the body...
(Stéphane Clavier, 2003) - Les Clefs de bagnole (Laurent Baffie, 2003)
- Frank Passingham, 2005)
- Un printemps à Paris (Springtime in Paris) (Jacques Bral, 2006)
by Eddy Mitchell
- Galas, galères, autobiography (Éditions Jacques Grancher, 1979)
- Cocktail Story, recipes and anecdotes (R.M.C. Éditions, 1986)
- P'tit Claude, novel (L'Arbre à cames, 1994)