Double (Roch Voisine album)

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.

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