RAYMOND BERNARD

Born: August 29th, 1920, Clamart, Greater Paris (France)

Died: May 21st, 2005, Suresnes, Greater Paris (France)

Nationality: French

In due course, the short impression below will be replaced with a more extensive career overview
 

BIOGRAPHY

Raymond Bernard was mainly known for writing scores to French films in the 1950s and 1960s, such as Le sicilien (1958), Une ballade dans le canon (1958), L’ennemi dans l’ombre (1960), and TV-series Les enquêtes du Commissaire Maigret (1967). Moreover, he was Serge Reggiani's musical director for many years.
 

EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

For the Eurovision Song Contest, Raymond Bernard composed three entries, the first of which was the 1963 Luxembourg entry ‘A force de prier’, which was performed by none other than Greek songstress Nana Mouskouri. In this case, Bernard had not been responsible for either the arrangement or conducting the Eurovision orchestra, which was left to British host conductor Eric Robinson. Two years later, in 1965, he both composed and conducted the Monegasque entry ‘Va dire à l’amour’, sung by Marjorie Noël. In 1972, he returned to the Eurovision Song Contest for the last time, again for Monaco, composing and conducting the entry ‘Comme on s’aime’, which was performed by Anne-Marie Godart and Peter MacLane. Of both Monegasque songs, Bernard had supervised the creation of the orchestrations, although the 1972 score was penned by Jean-Claude Pelletier (1972).
 
EUROVISION INVOLVEMENT YEAR BY YEAR

1963 London

Country – Luxembourg

Song title – "A force de prier"

Rendition – Nana Mouskouri

Lyrics – Pierre Delanoë

Composition – Raymond Bernard

Studio arrangement – Robert Chauvigny 

(studio orchestra conducted by Jacques Denjean)

Live orchestration – Robert Chauvigny

Conductor – Eric Robinson

Score – 8th place (13 votes)

1965 Naples

Country – Monaco

Song title – "Va dire à l'amour"

Rendition – Marjorie Noël

Lyrics – Jacques Mareuil

Composition – Raymond Bernard

Studio arrangement – Raymond Bernard

(studio orchestra conducted by Raymond Bernard)

Live orchestration – Raymond Bernard

Conductor – Raymond Bernard

Score – 9th place (7 votes)

1972 Edinburgh

Country – Monaco

Song title – Comme on s'aime

Rendition – Anne-Marie Godart & Peter MacLane

Lyrics – Jean Dréjac

Composition – Raymond Bernard

Studio arrangement – Jean-Claude Pelletier 

(studio orchestra conducted by Raymond Bernard)

Live orchestration – Jean-Claude Pelletier

Conductor – Raymond Bernard

Score – 16th place (65 votes)