F.R. David

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F. R. David (born Elli Robert Fitoussi David, 1 January 1947, Menzel Bourguiba, Tunisia) is a Tunisian-born Jewish French singer, best known for his 1982 hit single "Words (Don't Come Easy)".

With some friends in 1962 as a twist group in which he plays bass, Les Ken Jones, which began performing; after the summer of 1965 some nights in Corsica, they get a record deal with a small record company, Consul, that changes their name in Les Trèfles and makes it debut with the EP Sont ils innocent ?.

He began working as a songwriter activities in 1967, recording an EP, always with Polydor, and choosing the stage name of F.R. David (on the model of the pseudonym of P.J. Proby American singer); the song that gets increasingly adopted is Symphonie.

The following year, Sir Geoffrey affects the sauveur, cover of Sir Geoffrey Saved The World, a song by the Bee Gees, and gets the first results as a writer: writes fact Petite fille for Eric Charden in 1969.

Also in 1969 affects C'est ma vie, a cover of It's Me That You Need Elton John (in Italy brought to success by Maurizio Vandelli).

In Italy
In 1969, listening to a song, asked him to record it in Italian, offering him a contract during a performance in Turin, the Mac One, it was contacted by record producer Antonio Marrapodi (who later became a leader of the Italian EMI) with the Saint Martin Record: the song is Luisa Luisa, who had a good success.

In the following years F.R. David publishes other 45s sung in Italian, which remain unpublished in France, but that does not repeat the success of the first.

At the end of the decade decided to start a solo career and, after 45 rounds of limited success for RCA, signing a deal with Carrere Records.

He achieved his greatest success in 1982 with Words, which in Italy will go into ranking at the end of that year, also coming in first place; Always in 1983 F.R. David intends to Festivalbar with a new single I Need You.

The song will later be re-recorded as a cover by other artists such as Fiorello (in 1993 in the album Beaches and moons, translated into Italian as You) and the Spanish singer Soraya Arnelas (which puts it in the album La Dolce Vita in 2007 and the public also as a single).

Then move to CBS, continuing the activity.

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"Words" is a 1981 song by F. R. David. The song was originally released only in France and Monaco in the winter of 1981, later it was released in the rest of Europe. In 1983, it finally was released in America and the UK. It was a huge European hit, peaking at number one in Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and Norway. In spring of 1983, it peaked at number two on the British charts. It also went to number one in South Africa in late 1982 and spent 25 weeks on the charts. In Australia, the single peaked at number 12, but spent a remarkable 41 weeks on the Top 100 in two chart runs throughout 1983 and early 1984.[1] The photography of the 7" vinyl was made by Vassili Ulrich.

Initial copies of the recording on both LP and single credit the composition of "Words" solely to Robert Fitoussi, which is the real name of F. R. David. All later reissues of F. R. David's original recording of "Words", as well as all re-recordings, credit the composition of the song to Robert Fitoussi (music and lyrics).

In the 2000s, F. R. David released a French language duo version of the song with the singer Winda entitled "Words, J'aime ces Mots". F. R. David and Winda included also an English version as a duo.
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