Édouard Ruault, known as Eddie Barclay, was born in 1921 in Paris and became a
French jazz pianist, composer, and music producer. After teaching himself to
play the jazz hits he heard on the radio, he worked in his parents' café and
became a bar pianist, then formed his own jazz group that played at clandestine
gatherings during the Occupation with friends such as Django Reinhardt and Boris
Vian. In 1949 he launched Blue Star and in 1954 founded Barclay Records. He
signed and produced artists including Dalida, Henri Salvador, and The Poppys,
with whom he created "Noël 70" and who...