Fredericks Goldman Jones is a 1990 album recorded by the trio Carole Fredericks

Carole Fredericks

Carole Denise Fredericks was an American singer most famous for her recordings in France. Carole emerged from the shadow of her brother, the legendary blues musicologist Taj Mahal, to achieve fame and popularity in Europe and the French-speaking world...

, Jean-Jacques Goldman

Jean-Jacques Goldman

Jean-Jacques Goldman is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.- Biography :...

 and Michael Jones

Michael Jones (Welsh musician)

Michael Jones is a Welsh singer, guitarist, and song writer who lives in France. He has made several hit albums and toured as trio Fredericks Goldman Jones and collaborated on a number of songs with Goldman.-Biography:Jones was born in Welshpool...

. It was the trio's first studio album and was recorded at the studios ICP and Guillaume Tell, in Paris. The album was released on 28 November 1990 and spawned six singles which achieved success in France : "Nuit" (#6), "À nos actes manqués" (#2), "Né en 17 à Leidenstadt" (#11), "C'est pas l'amour" (#11), "Un, deux, trois" (#8) and "Tu manques" (#12). The album itself was successful : it debuted at number one on 4 January 1991 and stayed there for eight consecutive weeks. It was ranked for 51 weeks in the top ten and 87 weeks in the top 50. In 1991, it earned a Diamond disc

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 for over 1,000,000 copies sold.

Track listings

All tracks written and composed by Jean-Jacques Goldman.

All tracks performed by Carole Frederics, Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michael Jones, except "Tu manques" (Goldman only).

1. "C'est pas l'amour" — 4:57
2. "Vivre cent vies" — 4:41
3. "Né en 17 à Leidenstadt
   Né en 17 à Leidenstadt
   "Né en 17 à Leidenstadt" is a 1990 song written by Jean-Jacques Goldman. It was the third single from their debut album, Fredericks Goldman Jones, and was released in July 1991. It has been performed twice by Goldman alone, and also by Goldman with Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones, each with a...
   
   " — 3:54
4. "Un, deux, trois" — 4:18
5. "Nuit
   Nuit (song)
   "Nuit" is the name of a 1990 song recorded by the French trio Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones. It was the first single from their debut album, Fredericks Goldman Jones, on which the song features as the fifth track...
   
   " — 5:40
6. "Je l'aime aussi" — 6:14
7. "Chanson d'amour (...!)" — 4:07
8. "À nos actes manqués
   À nos actes manqués
   "À nos actes manqués" is a 1991 song recorded by the French trio Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones . Released as the second single from their eponymous album, the song was one of the summer hits in France and was the trio's most successful single in terms of ranks on the...
   
   " — 4:42
9. "Peurs" — 4:58
10. "Tu manques
    Tu manques
    "Tu manques" is a 1990 song recorded by Carole Fredericks, Jean-Jacques Goldman and Michael Jones. It was the sixth and last single from the album Fredericks Goldman Jones on which it appears as the last track and was released in May 1992. Although the three singers are credited on the single...
    
    " — 9:13

Source : Allmusic.

Personnel

• Nicole Amovin, Carole Fredericks, Julia Fenere Sarr – choir, chorus
• Gildas Arzel – acoustic guitar
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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• Alain Aubert, John Hastry – engineer
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  , mixing
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• Georges Baux, Jean Louis Pujade, Andy Scott – producer
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• Erick Benzi
  Erick Benzi
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   – synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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  , keyboards
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  , producer
• Simon Clarke, Kick Horns, Roddy Lorimer, J. Neil Sidwell – brass
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• Jean Yves d'Angelo – piano
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• Claude Gassian – photo
• Jean-Jacques Goldman – guitar, harmonica
  Harmonica
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  , piano, arranger, choir, chorus, producer
• Michael Jones – guitar, electric guitar, choir, chorus, co-arranger
• Basil Leroux, Patrice Tison – guitar
• Pino Palladino – bass
• Gerald Manceau, Claude Salmieri – drums
• Tim Sanders – sax, brass
• Paul Spong – trumpet
  Trumpet
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  , brass