Love Is Blue Vocal Version
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Paul Mauriat
PAUL MAURIAT Love is Blue (L'Amour est Bleu) Instrumental recordings had been a major component of popular music dating to the classical period of more than two hundred years ago. By the early 1960s the nonvocal art form had been tweaked and altered to encompass a wide variety of domestic and worldwide influences and was still going strong, accounting for about nine percent of all top 40 hits in the U.S. From 1960 to 1963; that statistic dropped by more than half between '64 and '67, with only a handful of those mid-decade hits reaching the top ten. As musical trends evolved, the wordless wonders that had been so big in the '50s and early '60s may have seemed poised to fall out of favor.that is, until classically-trained pop conductor-songwriter Paul Mauriat scored the surprise smash of early 1968, the wistfully romantic 'Love is Blue.' The melody was composed by Andre Popp and lyrics were provided by Pierre Cour; the team's previous claim-to-fame, 'Tom Pillibi,' was performed by French songstress Jacqueline Boyer in the 1960 Eurovision contest and took first place. Prior to that, Popp had written 'Portuguese Washerwomen' with lyricist Roger Lucchesi, an instrumental hit for American pianist Joe 'Fingers' Carr (real name: Lou Busch) in 1956. Mauriat was born and raised in Marseille on the Mediterranean, his interest in jazz fueling a desire to play piano.