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           Francis Lai - Love Dreams, His 16 Most Beautiful Melodies (1981)            


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Francis Lai (born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, on 26 April 1932) is a French accordionist, and composer noted for his film scores.

While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene. In 1965 he met filmmaker Claude Lelouch and was hired to help write the score for the film "A Man and a Woman". Released in 1966, the film was a major international success, earning a number of Academy Awards, and for the young Francis Lai, a Golden Globe Award nomination for "Best Original Score". This initial success brought more opportunities to work for the film industry both in his native France as well as in Great Britain and the United States. He is known for his support of Mireille Mathieu in many compositions and recordings. In 1969, he wrote the score for director René Clément's film, "Rider On The Rain" ("Le Passager de la Pluie"). It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc in September 1971.

In 1970 Francis Lai won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Score and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for the film "Love Story". In the United States, the soundtrack album went to No. 2 in the Billboard album charts and the film's theme, "Where Do I Begin" was a hit single with lyrics by Carl Sigman for traditional pop singer Andy Williams. The song would also be recorded successfully by Lai himself with a full orchestra and by Henry Mancini and Shirley Bassey. Francis Lai also wrote the music for the 1978 Love Story sequel titled "Oliver's Story".

Lai has also had success with music written for softcore erotic films like "Emmanuelle 2" (1975) and "Bilitis" (1977). He earned high praise for the latter film's score and its sound-track sold over a million copies throughout the world.

His composition "Aujourd'hui C'est Toi" (Today it's You) is probably best known in the UK as the theme music for the long-running BBC television current affairs documentary series Panorama.

In a career spanning forty years, Lai has also written music for television programs and alone or in collaboration with others has composed music for more than one hundred films and has personally written more than six hundred songs. Notably, he penned the music for the Perry Como hit "I Think of You" (lyric by Rod McKuen).




Artist: Francis Lai
Genre: Easy Listening
Format: Mp3
Bitrate: 320Kbps
Grootte: 134Mb
Speelduur: 00:57:50
Covers: Nee

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Tracklist:


01 - Bilitis
02 - Wings Of Heart
03 - Un Homme Et Une Femme
04 - Les Ringards
05 - Les Etoiles Du Cinéma
06 - Vivre Pour Vivre
07 - 13 Jours En France
08 - La Lecon Particulière
09 - Love Story
10 - L'ami Juif
11 - Nos Libertés
12 - Le Chat Et La Souris
13 - Le Corps De Mon Ennemi
14 - Emmanuelle 2
15 - Le Bon Et Les Méchants
16 - I Need A Man
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