GOLDORAK

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UFO ROBOT GRENDIZER RAIDS ("Goldorak" in French) is the anime which has had the most theme songs in France, given the extent of its success.

This CD contains almost all the French songs released on Goldorak, but if one wants to quibble, it misses the Quebec song "Disco Goldorak" (1980), and also an instrumental appeared on the Canadian 33 rpm, composed by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy, named "Kardlog".

It's also a pity that the real versions of the 1st opening and ending themes sung by Enriqué are missing, but apparently the original versions of 1978, at least the long versions, are nowhere to be found.

For the 3rd French opening and ending themes and an image song too (tracks 06~08), even if he’s credited by his real name in the CD booklet, Jean-Pierre Savelli used a nickname: "les Goldies".
See on the two French 45 rpm of the time:
https://www.goldorak-ost.fr/vinyl2-fr
https://www.goldorak-ost.fr/vinyl3-fr

Then I can't determine if the song "Goldorak Go!" performed by Noam (track 05) is just a Quebec image song, or served as the opening theme for the series in Quebec (or even the ending theme).
On the Goldorak page of the French Wikipedia, they say that this song is a theme song, but I can't find any confirmation on Youtube or elsewhere…

All the songs of this CD are related to the TV series "Goldorak", except track 09 which is a song appearing on the French movie "Le Retour de Goldorak", which is in fact a poor and nonsensical French montage of 4 Toei films linked to the universe of Go Nagai : "Mazinger Z vs Devilman" (1973), "Great Mazinger vs Getter Robo" (1975), "UFO Robot Grendizer vs Great Mazinger" (1976) and "Grendizer, Getter Robo G, Great Mazinger: Kessen! Daikaijuu" (1976).
This French site gives some information:
http://www.goldorakgo.com/wiki/index...ur_de_Goldorak