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Talent: JACQUES SALVAIL
Station: 1280 CJMS Montréal
Date: August 7, 1972
Time: 12:59

(Description by Marc Denis)

Back in 1972, Jacques Salvail (pronounced 'Salv-EYE') is one of the most high-profile radio and TV personalities in French Canada. Salvail is the singer/host of Saturday night's #1 French-language teen/bandstand television program in Quebec, Jeunesse, a show he inherited a year earlier from the departed pioneer originator, singer/host Pierre Lalonde.

Jacques Salvail thus enjoys a string of French-language hit records during this period, all the while jocking early evenings on Radio-Mutuel's flagship station, 1280 CJMS Montréal, for the better part of the early '70s playing the latest French and English language hits. His radio specials or countdowns are often broadcast on the complete Radio-Mutuel radio network of the time (CJRP Québec City, CJRS Sherbrooke, CJTR Trois-Rivieres, CJRC Ottawa-Hull). If any broadcast group ever successfully captured and translated the WABC New York "booming reverb sound" into a language other than English, it was Radio-Mutuel in Québec.

Other 1280 CJMS Montréal on-air notables of this classic era: Serge Belair, Michel Jasmin, Huguette Proulx, Paul Vincent (later to become singer Roch Voisine's manager) and Emile Genest ('60s star of many animal-themed Disney classics such as Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (1961), Big Red (1962). The Incredible Journey (1963), among other credits.

Following his "vedette" radio and television days, Jacques Salvail continued as a singer and host of the occasional Jeunesse retro rock summer tour across Québec and francophone Ontario. He has garnered some more favourable reviews as an actor in summer theatre over the years at venues in the Laurentians and Eastern Townships of Québec. Jacques can also be seen from time to time on popular French-language soaps.

Enjoy Jacques Salvail on 1280 CJMS in 1972 here.

Cliquez ici pour la description en francais.

(The Pierre Tremblay Collection)

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