Jacques Datin
Jacques Datin (14 June 1920 – 24 August 1973) was a French composer.
After his musical formation, he met with songwriter Maurice Vidalin, and they wrote many songs for several performers. Since 1954, they wrote for Juliette Greco, On en dira (written with Marc Lanjean). Since 1957, the association gave great musical success like, for example, Zon zon zon interpreted by Colette Renard and Michèle Arnaud (1957), Julie by Marcel Amont (1957), Les boutons dorés by Jean-Jacques Debout, and Repris by Barbara in 1959.
Their greatest success will arrive in 1961 when they won Eurovision Song Contest along Jean-Claude Pascal, who competed for Luxembourg with the song Nous les amoureux. The following year, they got 3th place with Petit bonhomme, sung by Camillo Felgen.
Many performers of his songs are, in particular, France Gall (Christiansen , Mes premières vraies vacances), Juliette Greco (Jusqu'à où, jusqu'à quand and Les Mariés), Françoise Hardy (Va pas prendre un tambour, Le Temps des souvenirs) Serge Lama (Les P'tites Femmes de Pigalle),Claude Nougaro (Une petite fille , Le Jazz et la Java , Je suis sous…), Serge Reggiani (Le Petit Garçon) and Edith Piaf, for which he wrote Dans ma rue (1946).
In 1964 he composed the music for the French version of The Taming of the Shrew, telefilm that Pierre Badel adapted from the Shakespeare's book.
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