French singer and actor Eddy Mitchell was born Claude Moine on July 3, 1942. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks). He took the name Eddy from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine, and chose Mitchell as his last name simply because it sounded American. The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Golf-Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records.
Heavily influenced by American rock and roll, Mitchell (who went solo in 1963) often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. Guitarists Big Jim Sullivan and 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, Leland Sklar, Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper and others.
A great lover of American films, he hosted ‘La Dernière Séance’, a TV show about American cinema from 1981 to 1998 on FR3. Its format was like an old-fashioned double-feature picture show, with two movies, cartoons, newsreels, and stage attractions. The title was taken from the name of one of Mitchell's albums, which in turn took it from the French title of the movie “The Last Picture Show.”
Mitchell is also the voice of Dylan (Flappy) in the French version of the 2005 film of “The Magic Roundabout”, as well as the voice of Chanticleer in the French version of “Rock-a-Doodle”.
Mitchell sang the songs The Fool on the Hill”, “By the Hill” in the 1969 French television western film ‘The Man Who Came from Cher’.
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MITCHELL, Eddy (aka Eddie Mitchell)
(Claude Moine) [7/3/1942, Paris, Île-de-France, France – ] – compoer, film, TV, voice actor,
singer, married to actress Françoise Lavit (1961-1979)
father of Eddy Mitchell [1962- ],
Marilyn Mitchell [1965- ], married to
actress Muriel Bailleul (1980- )
father of Pamela Mitchell [1982- ],
member of the group ‘Eddy Mitchell et Les Chaussettes Noires’.
The Man Who Came from
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