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Roger Roger

Roger Roger

Roger Roger has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 18 May 2014. Roger Roger's music has been featured on 20 episodes.

Roger Roger (5 August 1911 - 12 June 1995) was a French film composer and bandleader. He also recorded under the names Eric Swan, Cecil Leuter, Freddy Alberti, Henri Giordano, Roger Roger Ensemble.

Born at Rouen, Normandy, Roger started composing for films in the 1930s, and was responsible for the famous pantomime sequences in Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du Paradis (1944). He also performed and composed music for several European radio stations, including Radio Luxembourg, Radio 37 and Europe 1.

After the Second World War, Roger became a composer of library music, i.e. music designed to evoke a particular mood in a film or television production. From the 1960s to the 1980s he often collaborated with Nino Nardini. Much of his output became available via Chappell Music, and Roger also went into partnership with Frank Chacksfield to work on several projects for the BBC.

He died in Paris in 1995. Since his death, renewed interest in light music has seen several CD albums released, both in dedicated albums and in compilations, notably of test card music, where some of Roger's music was used by the BBC in the 1970s.

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Roger Roger

Roger Roger has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 18 May 2014. Roger Roger's music has been featured on 20 episodes.

Roger Roger (5 August 1911 - 12 June 1995) was a French film composer and bandleader. He also recorded under the names Eric Swan, Cecil Leuter, Freddy Alberti, Henri Giordano, Roger Roger Ensemble.

Born at Rouen, Normandy, Roger started composing for films in the 1930s, and was responsible for the famous pantomime sequences in Marcel Carné's Les Enfants du Paradis (1944). He also performed and composed music for several European radio stations, including Radio Luxembourg, Radio 37 and Europe 1.

After the Second World War, Roger became a composer of library music, i.e. music designed to evoke a particular mood in a film or television production. From the 1960s to the 1980s he often collaborated with Nino Nardini. Much of his output became available via Chappell Music, and Roger also went into partnership with Frank Chacksfield to work on several projects for the BBC.

He died in Paris in 1995. Since his death, renewed interest in light music has seen several CD albums released, both in dedicated albums and in compilations, notably of test card music, where some of Roger's music was used by the BBC in the 1970s.

Original source Last.fm

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Mowgli
Nino Nardini, Roger Roger
Fifth Dimension2015
Frantique
Nino Nardini, Eddie Warner, Roger Roger
Born Bad Records2016
Rhapsody In Green
Roger Roger, Martin Monestier
Tchou Éditeur1978
Mowgli
Nino Nardini, Roger Roger
Dare-Dare2000
Le Sale Môme
Roger Roger
Neuilly1970
Safari Park
Roger Roger
Vadim Music2010
Sound Industrial N°6
Roger Roger
L'Illustration Musicale1977
Oh Karina
Roger Roger
Crea Sound Ltd.1979
Tropical
Nino Nardini, Roger Roger
Dare-Dare2000
Shere Khan
Nino Nardini, Roger Roger
Dare-Dare2000