Paul Mauriat (4 March 1925 -- 3 November 2006) was a French orchestra leader, specializing in light music. He is best known in the United States for his million selling remake of André Popp's "Love is Blue", which was #1 for 5 weeks in 1968. Other recordings for which he is known include El Bimbo, "Toccata" and "Penelope."
In 1965 Mauriat established Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat, and released hundreds of recordings and compilations through the Philips label for the next 28 years. In 1994 he signed with Japanese record company Pony Canyon, where he re-recorded some of his greatest hits and wrote new compositions. Mauriat recorded many of these albums in both Paris and London, utilising several English classical musicians in these recordings.
Mauriat retired from performing in 1998. He gave his final performance in the Sayonara Concert, recorded live in Osaka, Japan, but his orchestra continued to tour around the world before his death in 2006. The Paul Mauriat Grand Orchestra ceased to exist after the Maestro's death in 2006.
Paul Mauriat died on 3 November 2006 in Perpignan, France, age 81.
The song originated in France, composed by André Popp, lyrics by Pierre Cour and first performed by Vicky Leandros in French in '67, the same year Mauriat performed it. Mauriat's version topped the American charts for 5 weeks in Feb - March '68. Brian Blackburn then translated the lyrics to English, and it has since been performed by several artists including Frank Sinatra and Jeff Beck.
Love Is Blue
Blue, blue, my world is blue
Blue is my world now I'm without you
Gray, gray, my life is gray
Cold is my heart since you went away
In the French version by Vicky, she associates blue with happiness and bliss, but the "blue" in Eenglish is related to sadness and abandonment. The French version has a mirrored meaning, not identical. Vicky sings about how she is in love and with him right now while Johnny tells how they used to be together.
Red, red, my eyes are red
Crying for you alone in my bed
Green, green, my jealous heart
I doubted you and now we're apart
CHORUS:
When we met how the bright sun shone
Then love died, now the rainbow is gone
Black, black, the nights I've known
Longing for you so lost and alone
Gone, gone, the love we knew
Blue is my world now I'm without you.
Repeat CHORUS
Black, black, the nights I've known
Longing for you so lost and alone
Blue, blue, my world is blue
Blue is my world now I'm without you
A friend of mine talked about the song a couple of days ago.
Listening to it on the chilly Saturday night brings a lot of memories back.
Love is blue; so is life.
Keep fighting to turn it bright. |
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