Looking for the vocal versions of "April Orchestra vol. 39" tracks

[Derker]

Hello!
As you know, some of the April Orchestra albums released by CBS are based on instrumental versions of songs from French CBS.
I really really like "April Orchestra vol. 39" album and I'm interested in the vocal versions of those tracks (I'm almost 100% sure that they're instrumental versions of actual songs, considering how they sound). 

Any ideas on how can I find them efficiently?
Maybe you could recommend some forum groups where I could ask people about it?
Maybe you know what these songs are?

Methods I tried:

• I tried to find the songs by the people credited in the release: producers, songwriters, etc. on Discogs
• I tried to find those songs exploring all the releases from French CBS on Discogs (filtered by years and genre)
• Edit: Now I even have written the request to some of those artists on Facebook (lol)

Link to the album: drive.g00gle.com/drive/folders/1YHiOUzzX4XKd-gOm06y6QShHdg7N5_R3?usp=sharing

[Mr]

I unfortunately only know of the two listed on Discogs already, both from "Brass & Congas" (CBS 83690, 1979):
"Système 80" (Thierry Durbet - Harry Williams Verschu) = "New-York" (R. Moreau - C. Monique)
"32 rue des Pommiers" (T. Durbet - H.-W. Verschu) = "That's Enough" (S. Claude - C. Monique)

Here's the whole LP, but unfortunately not a very good rip (not mine):
hxxps://www.swisstransfer.com/d/8f4c8abd-b1a7-4a71-ac63-67df1b905ef2


Note the writing credits are, curiously, not the same.
I'm not sure what is listed on the sleeve of the original French release, but the Italian reissue of the Brass & Congas mentions that "Harryson" (Harry Williamson) served as producer, and Thierry Durbet as arranger for the LP, which at least explains the connection between the two.


Harry Williams served as producer on a lot of French releases under a lot of different names, and Christos Pertsinidis and Costa Papadoukas (both Greek, I assume) were both fairly prolific session musicians.
I haven't been able to find this one yet, but a project which is tied to all three and a good candidate for some of the other tracks is this single by "FOS":
hxxps://www.discogs.com/release/5303322
- "Johnny Williams SON" is also Harry Williams.

and this seemingly related Greek-issued LP "Friends" by "New Energy":
hxxps://www.discogs.com/release/10526283
- also produced by Johnny Williams Son, this one additionally has a songwriting credit by "A. Margaro", which is a known alias of Alexandros Bougiouzis/Bougiouris.



While looking for more info just now, I learned that Christos Pertsinidis put out a solo album last year, and is still active as a guitarist - maybe contacting him directly through social media might be an easy way to get a definitive answer, as you mention.

Happy hunting! I hope you'll keep us updated if you ever get an answer from them.

[Derker]

MAN!

I was just writing to you about how hopeless my search is. But once again I took a listen (completely complulsively) to those tracks by New Energy - a band that Christos Pertsinidis and Costa Papadoukas participated in. And then... I FOUND ONE OF THEM! 

On "April Orchestra vol.39" it's entitled "Choristement Vôtre". So there's hope for deciphering most of the tracks on the album (considering that many them share the same sound)!

Honestely, it's sooo my bad, because if I hadn't looked through that "Friends" release so cursorily, we would have had those refernces even back in 2025. 
So moral of the story is that when you're looking for a track, examine every possible track very thoroughly.

Now all that's left is to get that "Friends" release somehow, since I can't see any rip on the internet.

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Thank you for your response, Mr! 

Yeah, I've known that "Brass & Congas" thing. Interesting thing about it is that synths in "New-York" sound slightly different than on "Système 80", just like they re-recorded it or something.

The worst thing about credits is that those artists (Harry Williams Verschu, Christos Pertsinidis and Costa Papadoukas) have many aliases that ARE NOT LINKED to their actual names on Discogs, hence why there's no way to find out about those aliases (like Harry's "Harryson" on "Brass & Congas" for example).

I sent messages to Christos and Costa with the question and they haven't responded yet, so... Yeah, it's always like this when you try to contact artists.