Five For Friday: Bernard Gérard

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So I was looking through Spotify and YouTube for candidates for today’s look into the instrumental world, and found French composer Bernard Gérard, who wrote scores for movies I hadn’t heard of, not being an aficionado of the French cinema. But I liked his music, and hope you will, too…

  1. Méchoui: From the 1967 film La Grande Sauterelle (The Great Grasshopper).
  2. Tragic Romance: From the album Classic Romance by Gérard and Daniel White.
  3. Tempo VI: From an album called Tempo, subtitled "musique pour l’éducation psychometrice" ("music for psychometric education"). Couldn’t find the album at Discogs, so it must have been a French disc.
  4. Metropolitan Waltz: A song from 1971 (I knew there was an early ’70’s vibe!), which was, according to the description, "the callsign for Jean-Pierre Foucault’s program."
  5. Le Crocodile Porte Clé Or "The Crocodile Keychain," from a 2012 album on Purple Pyramid Records called Indie Psyche Rock: Rare Recordings From The Attic. Didn’t find this on Discogs, either.

Bernard Gérard, your Five For Friday, October 22, 2021.

Published by John Holton

Internet disc jockey, lover of old TV (especially the commercials), inveterate wise guy.

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3 thoughts on “Five For Friday: Bernard Gérard”

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  2. I enjoyed listening to this man’s work even though I never heard it before. You can tell it is from the era but it works for me.

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