Paul Mauriat ~ "Love is Blue" (1968)

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[simpson96]

Hope you enjoy. ”Love Is Blue”

[John Milner]

Don’t know if it was actually a chart hit, but I know it received considerable air play. A nice melancholy tune...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_8Zi4GafyI

Lonely (Amy’s Tune) - Lovin’ Spoonful

[Fiji Hill]

I wonder if Dennis Coffey is on the Supremes' Love Child?

[Fiji Hill]

Lonely (Amy’s Tune) was released in the late spring of 1967, but it doesn't seem to have seen any chart action.

[fidelis]

I can think of a ton:

Walk, Don't Run - The Ventures
Hawaii Five-O Theme - The Ventures
Soulful Strut - Young-Holt Unlimited
Green Onions - Booker T and the MG's
Pipeline - Chantays
Theme From a Summer Place - Percy Faith
Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet - Henry Mancini
Numerous tunes by Herb Alpert and the TJ Brass

And that's just from the '60's.

[dfwgator]

In the 70s you had “Love’s Theme” from The Love Unlimited Orchestra, and “A Fifth of Beethoven”.

[Moonman62]

Another hit all instrumental in mid-68 was Grazing in the Grass by Hugh Masekela.

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So that’s the name of that song, and it has lots of cowbell, which makes sense considering the title.

[Moonman62]

Classical Gas?

[dfwgator]

Trivia Time:

Before the Beatles came along, there were only three songs by British-born artists that hit Number One on Billboard, all were instrumentals. Can you tell me the three songs and who did them.

(No cheating! LOL!)

[fidelis]

Holy smokes! I haven’t a clue. My knowledge of pre-Beatles British acts is just about nil.

[fidelis]

Soulful Strut - Young-Holt Unlimited

[fidelis]

Hawaii Five-O · The Ventures

[Rastus]

The dearly departed Imperial China used to have this song on their very limited playlist. Now I’m craving their sugar biscuits.

[AU72]

So that’s the name of that song, and it has lots of cowbell, which makes sense considering the title.

Yeah, maybe that's where "More Cowbell" came from.

[AU72]

Early in 1968, at the same time "Love is Blue" was riding the charts, another beautiful French import, Ame Câline (Soul Coaxing) by Raymond Lefèvre was getting airplay on Adult Contemporary and even Top 40 stations.

I remember in that era another French song that featured the refrain J'taime with a lot of heavy breathing. A Class 1 back seat make-out song!

[Fiji Hill]

I remember in that era another French song that featured the refrain J'taime with a lot of heavy breathing. A Class 1 back seat make-out song!

Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus (I love you...I'm no longer me)--Jane Birkin (1969)

[Fiji Hill]

The only instrumental I can think of without cheating is Ebb Tide by Frank Chacksfield (1954), but I'm not sure if that went all the way to number one.

Auf Wiedersehen by Vera Lynn topped the charts in 1952, but that wasn't an instrumental. I like even better Rudi Schuricke's version from two years earlier, which was not a hit in the US.