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This Week's Guest:
Sacha Distel
Sunday 15 February
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Friday 20 February | | |  |
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Photo by Jacky Mauro
This week Sue Lawley's castaway is one of France’s best known exports – the singer Sacha Distel.
Born into a loving family in thirties Paris, his father was a Russian émigré who’d fled the Red Army in 1917 and walked to Paris where he eventually set up an electrical goods shop. His mother was a talented musician and she instilled a love of music in her son at a young age – especially the piano. The family was traumatised during the second World War, when his mother, who was Jewish, was interred in a Nazi camp for 19 months. After the war they were reunited but Sacha has said the experience left him with a long lasting sense of insecurity.
He continued playing the piano but was increasingly drawn to the guitar – encouraged by the Uncle who was the successful jazz band leader Ray Ventura. He soon demonstrated enormous talent for the instrument and after graduating from college he was playing with the likes of Lionel Hampton, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davies. However it was his affair and engagement to Brigitte Bardot which catapaulted him to international fame. The liaison failed but he was to go on to become a household name, both in here and in France, with his distinct vocal style and image as a sex symbol.
Now about to turn 71, Sacha is still touring and has just released a new CD.
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1. These foolish things (remind me of you)
Performer Tony Bennett
Composer H. Marvell/J. Strachey/ H Link
Publisher Bourne Co/EMI Blackwood music
CD Title Tony Bennett - On holiday
Track 14
Label Columbia
Rec No: 487 2632
2. La Valse
Performer Charles Dutoit & Montreal Symphony Orch
Composer Ravel
Publisher Decca record
CD Title Bolero, La Valse
Track 2
Label Decca
Rec No: MCPS 414 406-2
3. Ebb Tide
Performer Frank Sinatra
Composer R Maxwell/C Sigman
Publisher Capitol records
CD Title Only the Lonely
Track 9
Label Capitol
Rec No: 496 996-2
4. When lights are low
Performer Miles Davis Quintet
Composer Carter/Williams
Publisher Prestige records
CD Title Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
Track 4
Label Prestige
Rec No: OJCCD 128-2
5. Corcovado
Performer Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto
Composer Antonio Carlos Jobim
Publisher Polygram
CD Title Getz/Gilberto
Track 10
Label Verve
Rec No: 521 414-2
6. My funny Valentine
Performer Sacha Distel with Martin Taylor
Composer Hart/Rogers
Publisher Chappell
CD Title When I fall in Love
Track 5
Label UCJ
Rec No: 981 635-1
7. Airegin
Performer Wes Montgomery
Composer Rollins
Publisher Riverside
CD Title Incredible Jazz Guitar
Track 1
Label Riverside
Rec No: OJCCD 036-2
8. Come Rain or come shine
Performer Frank Sinatra
Composer Arlen/Mercer
Publisher Reprise records
CD Title The Reprise Years
Track 2
Label Reprise
Rec No: 7599 265222
Record: Come Rain or Come Shine
Book: The Alchemist -A fable about following your dream
by Paulo Coelho
Luxury: Grand piano
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