Patrick Ouchene, 43 year-old Elvis Presley lookalike from Brussels. However, Patrick does not copy the great classics of the time, he writes and composes his own songs. Currently he is member of rockabilly band Runnin' Wild, where he sings and plays guitar. His greatest success was "Je Suis Swing" with the band The Domino's, a song that has entered in 1991 French top 10. With this song, the Domino's had participated in the major French shows of Michel Drucker, Jean-Pierre Foucault, Pascal Sevran ... and even had the great honor of singing "C'est a Paris" a duet with Charles Aznavour. He was also member of The Million Dollar Sunrise - an act reporoducing Sun-Sound of 1955 and featuring Runnin’ Wild’s Koen as Johnny Cash, Mario as Carl Perkins and Patrick Ouchene as Elvis plus Marcel Riesco (Truly Lover Trio) as Roy Orbison.
More recently, Patrick Ouchene has produced six full CD's that offer Rockabilly explosive cocktail straight out of the fifties and flowing well in the world of aficionados of Rock'n Roll. He is also Manager/Organisator of several summer festivals in Belgium, with multiple artists and bands from all around the world, since 2003 with the A.S.B.L "ASK4", also producing a workshop to initiate kids and teenagers to the Rock'n'Roll world and the History of Music.Composer of the song is Miam Monster Miam (Benjamin Schoos) - singer, composer, producer, illustrator and humorist. "This composition is interesting and quite creative mix. I would say it's not rock 'n roll fifties and pure rockabilly, the melody is very pop and then accelerates as a rapid march accelerated". The song lyiricist is Jacques Duvall (aka Eric Verwilghen) (worked with Lio, Alain Chamfort, Etienne Daho, Jane Birkin, Marc Lavoine and on the latest release of Runnin' Wild "I Dressed In Black Today"). Fascinated with a phenomenon of "celebrity lookalikes", the people who spend their lives in the skin of their idol, the Jacques has invented the ultimate surreal theme for the song. The theme of the song "Copycat" is a game on this double identity (Elvis and Ouchene). "Copycat" is the complaint of a rock'n'roll singer who believed he had invented a style and discover with surprise that someone else is like him, copying him. There must be thousands of imitators of Elvis Presley in the world ... competitions of King lookalikes are organized around the planet. But then, one of these clones has never heard of the original. He dresses, sings and lives like Elvis without even knowledge of the existence of this model that he has never sought to imitate. And then even accuse him of copying ... There are several meanings in the text that pose some philosophical questions: how to find its place here on earth? How out of its models to be oneself, to become the original?
Song Download Link : http://rapidshare.com/files/207603185/2009_-_Belgium_-_Patrick_Ouch_ne_-_Copycat.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/207629394/2009_-_Belgium_-_Patrick_Ouch_ne_-_Copycat__Remix_version_.mp3
Lyrics:
Way down in Memphis,
Tennessee
There’s a guy looking just like me
Wearing the same blue suede shoes
Singing the same old blues
Way down in the U.S. of A.
There’s a guy doing things my way
Combing the same greasy hair
Hugging the same teddy bear
He’s a copycat
Trying to steal my soul
But he’s too fat
To rock’n’roll
Way down in the deep deep South
There’s a guy with a girly mouth
Eating the same banana sandwich
Dressed in the same kind of kitsch
Way down by the Mississippi river
There’s a guy with a voice that quivers
Driving the same Cadillac car
Chasing the same lucky star
He’s a copycat
Trying to steal my soul
But he’s too fat
To rock’n’roll
Way down in America
There’s a guy, rich and arrogant
Dating my fair Priscilla
He makes me want to hire a killer!
Way down in the land of the brave
There’s a guy lying in his grave
Cause nobody duplicating my jive
Will never get away with that alive
He was a copycat
Trying to steal my soul
Now he’s too dead
To rock’n’roll
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