Roger Roger (Sound)

Roger Roger, born August 5, 1911 in Rouen and died June 12, 1995 in Deauville, is a French composer. Roger Roger begins by composing music for documentaries, then films (pantomime scenes in Les Enfants du paradis), then programs like Reine d'un jour with Jean Nohain or le Crochet radiophonique with Saint-Granier. From 1955 he published around twenty albums which earned him a worldwide reputation similar to that which Paul Mauriat would later have. Roger Roger has composed for famous artists such as Édith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier, Jean Sablon, Charles Trenet. One of his most widely distributed works, Volatiles, is an instrumental known to everyone in the 1950s and 1960s, even if no one knows the title, nor the composer: the piece served as connecting music to the programs of the Parisian post (which will become France Inter). In 1960, Roger Roger composed a piece in honor of Pierre-Marcel Ondherv, the PMO Polka,...Read More