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Released
  
1990

Artist
  
Roch Voisine

Label
  
Distribution Select

Double (1990)
  
Roch Voisine (1990)

Release date
  
1990

Genre
  
Pop music

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Recorded
  
1990, Recording : at Studio Intersession and Studio Victor, Montréal, and Studio Palais des Congrès, Paris Mixing at Le Studio Palais des Congrès, Paris

Similar
  
Je te serai fidèle, Coup de tête, Sauf si l'amour, Kissing Rain, I'll Always Be There

Double is a 1990 bilingual French / English double album by Canadian singer Roch Voisine as a follow up to the album Hélène. The first CD is all in French, the second all in English. The English tracks were also released as a separate album entitled Roch Voisine.

Contents

Album information

The album was recorded in Canada and France, and was mixed in France. Famous singer-songwriter and guitarist Francis Cabrel participated in one of the tracks of the second album.

In France, the album spawned three top three singles : "La berceuse du petit diable" (#3), "Darlin'" (#2), and later "La promesse" (#3) and "Avec tes yeux (Pretty Face)" (#3). The last two singles were released to support Voisine's live album Europe tour, but originally appears on this album.

Double debuted at #4 on 6 December 1990 on the SNEP Albums Chart and had a peak at number two for two weeks. It totaled 26 weeks in the top ten and 73 weeks in the top 50. In 1992, the album earned a 2 x Platinum disc for over 600,000 copies sold.

Disc 1 : French

  1. "Prélude" (Beaulieu) — 1:51
  2. "Les Jardins de St-Martin (Princesse)" (Voisine) — 3:07
  3. "La promesse" (Lefebvre, Voisine) — 2:28
  4. "Elle a peur des hirondelles" (Campbell, Lefebvre, Lessard, Voisine) — 3:48
  5. "Tu ne sauras jamais" (Lefebvre, Voisine) — 3:59
  6. "Darlin'" (Ciciola, Decary, Izzo, Voisine) — 4:15
  7. "Au bout de l'île" (Lefebvre, Voisine) — 2:59
  8. "Pour toi" (Albert, Bourquin, Gasté) — 5:03
  9. "Blue Love Sue" (Decary, Voisine) — 3:02
  10. "La berceuse du petit diable" (Little Devil's Lullaby) (Decary, Voisine) — 4:03
  11. "Bye-Bye" (Lefebvre, Voisine, Vollant) — 4:06

Disc 2 : English

  1. "On the Outside" (Campbell, Voisine) — 4:03
  2. "Waiting" (Voisine) — 3:28
  3. "Mountain Girl" (Lessard, Voisine) — 3:37
  4. "A Fishing Day" (Voisine) — 4:09
  5. "My Fairy Tale" (Campbell, Voisine) — 2:58
  6. "She Had a Dream" (Voisine) — 3:32
  7. "Until Death Do Us Part" (Francis Cabrel, Campbell, Voisine) — 3:17
  8. "Jamie's Girl" (Campbell, Voisine) — 2:25
  9. "Pretty Face" (Voisine) — 3:16
  10. "Helen" (English version) (Lessard, Voisine) — 3:43
  11. "All Wired Up" (Voisine) — 4:00

Personnel

Musicians
  • Backing vocals - Adessa, Sembele Assitan, Bobby Helms, Bruce L. Johnson, Carole Frédericks, Elise Duguay (tracks: 2.02), Georges Costa, James Campbell, Janiece Jamison, Kat Dyson, Kathleen Dyson, Kim Richardson, Norman Groulx, Richard Groulx, Roch Voisine
  • Bass - Allan B. Abrahams, Bernard Paganotti, Denis Labrosse, Pierre Duchesne, Sylvain Bolduc
  • Cello - Alain Aubut
  • Drums - Denis Toupin, Dominique Messier, Peter Barbeau, Richard Provençal
  • Guitar - Christian Leroux, Carl Katz, Christian Péloquin, Denis Forcier, Denis Lable, Francis Cabrel, James Campbell, Jean-Marie Benoit, Michael Pucci, Patrice Tison, Rick Haworth, Roch Voisine, Réjean Bouchard, Réjean Lachance
  • Keyboards - Aldo Nova, Luc Gilbert, Marc Beaulieu
  • Percussion - Denis Benarrosh, Denis Toupin, Marc Chantereau, Paul Picard
  • Piano - Marc Beaulieu, Scott Price
  • Strings - Bernard Paganotti, Bertrand Lajudie, Marc Beaulieu, La Philharmonie de Paris, Le Quatuor de la Philharmonie de Paris
  • Viola - Gérard Daigle
  • Violin - Christian Prévost, Stéphane Allard
    • Recording and photo
  • Engineer - Philippe Laffont (strings, vocals and background vocals recording), Claude Pons (vocals and background vocals recording)
  • Mixing - Manuel "Manu" Guiot, Serge "Bum-Bum" Pauchard
  • Mixing assistant - Bruno Sourice
  • Recording - Gaétan Pilon, Michael Delaney
  • Recording assistant - Christophe Jauseau, Luc Pellerin, Stanislas BC
  • Arranged by Aldo Nova, Bernard Paganotti, Francis Cabrel, Jean-Marie Benoit, Luc Gilbert, Marc Beaulieu, Roch Voisine, Scott Price
  • Photo - Tony Frank
  • Producer - André Di Cesare, Roch Voisine

    • Songs

    1Prelude1:51
    2Les Jardin de St-Martin (Princesse)3:09
    3La Promesse2:31

    References

    Double (Roch Voisine album) Wikipedia
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