Mireille Mathieu

Mireille Mathieu, 2005

Mireille Mathieu [ miʁɛj matjø ] (born July 22, 1946 in Avignon ) is a French singer . In France it is also called La Demoiselle d'Avignon , in Germany it is known as the “Avignon Sparrow”. Mathieu has sold around 190 million records.

biography

youth

Mireille Mathieu was born in 1946 in poor conditions in Avignon . The parents Roger Mathieu (1920–1985), a cemetery stonemason , and Marcelle-Sophie Poirier (1921–2016) had 13 more children; France's former President Charles de Gaulle took over the sponsorship of the youngest in May 1967. She had her first vocal appearance at the age of four in a midnight mass. She left school without a qualification because from 1960 she had to work as an unskilled worker in a canning factory to support the family.

discovery

In June 1964 she won the singing competition “On chante dans mon quartier” (“We sing in my neighborhood”) in Avignon with Édith Piafs La vie en rose . Because of this victory, she received an invitation to Paris to audition for the television show Télé-Dimanche . In November 1965 she came back to Paris to rehearse for “Palmarès des Chansons” at the Olympia ; However, she did not take part in the competition, but again preferred Télé-Dimanche . There she started on November 21, 1965 in the singing competition "Le Jeu de la Chance" (" Hazard Game "), sang the piaf song Jézebel on her television debut and won with Georgette Lemaire. This withdrew on November 28, 1965 in favor of Mathieu, so that the way for the stage was clear for Mathieu. At the end of December 1965 she appeared in the Olympic Theater in the opening act of Sacha Distel ("Sacha Show") and Dionne Warwick .

Mireille Mathieu with her manager Johnny Stark (1971)

Johnny Stark - who had already promoted Yves Montand , Françoise Hardy , Johnny Hallyday and Sylvie Vartan - was present at the show and was its manager from 1965 to 1989. The music producer Eddie Barclay was also among the audience and offered her a record deal with his Label Barclay Records .

Mireille Mathieu - Mon Crédo (1966)

In December 1965 a live LP was made from her performance. In June 1967 the record reached number 14 in the German LP charts. At the same time Mathieu played a few singles for the Barclay label in 1966; the first was Mon Crédo in March 1966, followed by C'est ton nom . Mon crédo developed into a great success, with 1.7 million copies sold and its first number one hit on the French charts . As early as May 1966, 500,000 copies were sold in France alone.

Career

Mireille Mathieu (1970)

She had another number one hit in November 1966 with Paris en colère from the movie Brennt Paris? . When they released the French version of The Last Waltz ( La dernière valse ; text: Hubert Ithier) in October 1967 , Barclay Records was able to sell over 200,000 copies in France by December 1967. On March 6, 1966, she appeared in the United States on the Ed Sullivan Show in front of 50 million viewers; In the same year she made her first guest appearance in the GDR in the East Berlin Friedrichstadt-Palast . At the beginning of May 1967 she was on tour in (West) Germany for the first time; after that she toured the Soviet Union for 26 days . At that time she was already being celebrated by the media as the “new Piaf”. In May 1967, according to Billboard , 39% of French respondents voted Mireille Mathieu the most popular French singer. The youth magazine Bravo reported on the tour in the same month. Her first record in (West) Germany was the LP Mireille Mathieu I with chansons in July 1967 .

Mireille Mathieu - Farewell to La Paloma (1973)

In the James Bond parody Casino Royale , she sang her first German recording, Ein Blick von dir, in the German dubbed version . In May 1968 she went on tour in Germany again. In 1969 she began working with the pop composer team Christian Bruhn (music) / Georg Buschor (text), whose 100 or so hit texts for Mathieu were mostly about love, France and Paris. In order to protect Mathieu from comparisons with Édith Piaf, which she never liked, her long-time manager Stark made sure that she quickly got her own repertoire and hardly interpreted Piaf songs until the 1970s. She had her breakthrough in April 1969 with the piece Behind the Scenes of Paris / Martin (Ariola 14285; 5th place in the German hit parade), recorded in the Berlin Ariola recording studio. When her manager Stark heard the song there, which had not yet been completed, he exclaimed enthusiastically “C'est ça! Adjustment! ”(“ That's it! ”). The filming of Behind the Scenes of Paris took three hours for Mathieu, who was ignorant of the German language. The format for future German-language hits by Mathieu was found. Katja Ebstein made demo recordings , after which Mathieu learned the lyrics phonetically, Bruhn was her music producer until 1980.

Akropolis Adieu from September 1971 was their first million seller . Her greatest commercial success was La Paloma Ade from October 1973 with over a million singles sold, the title reached number 1 in Germany and was in the charts for 27 weeks. Two choirs were recorded overdubbing for this , the beginning of the chorus was interrupted like a prelude . Further single successes followed in Germany, including On a Sunday in Avignon (April 1970), I'm fine, Chéri (October 1970), All of Paris is a Theater (February 1971), The Paris Tango (June 1971) , The Tsar and the Maiden (September 1975) and Santa Maria (May 1978). Mathieu has been a regular on German television since 1969 and got her first own television program on ZDF with the title Rendezvous with Mireille . The DFF the GDR sent on 31 December 1970 as the first color broadcast of the East German television the gala evening with Mireille Mathieu from Leipzig . Other German shows followed, such as 1977 It is time for music and Bonsoir Mireille in April 1982 on ZDF and Meine Welt ist die Musik in March 1998 on the first .

In 2005 she celebrated her 40th stage anniversary with a tour, a CD with new French songs and with many TV shows in France and Germany. Russian President Putin invited them to sing in Moscow's Red Square on May 9, 2005 (on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Victory Day ). In November 2006 she released her first DVD, a concert recording from the Paris Olympia , recorded during her concert series for the stage anniversary. On May 6, 2007, she sang at the invitation of President Nicolas Sarkozy during the 2007 French presidential election , the French national anthem , in October 2007, first appeared in eight years another - by Jan-Eric Kohrs produced - German-language LP In my heart, with 14 titles in German language. More than 20 years after her last tour of Germany, Mathieu went on tour again in the spring of 2008 with her current songs and her greatest successes of the past. In October 2009 the CD Nah bei Dir was released with 14 new German titles. In the spring of 2010 Mathieu gave 22 concerts in Germany, Austria and Denmark as part of her tour My greatest successes .

Mireille Mathieu sang duets with Peter Alexander , Plácido Domingo , Nana Mouskouri , Dalida , Tom Jones , Dean Martin , Petula Clark , Chantal Goya , Barry Manilow , Charles Aznavour , Harald Juhnke , Julio Iglesias , Patrick Duffy , Paul Anka and Frank Schöbel . She lives with her sister in Paris-Neuilly .

Mireille Mathieu, 2015

Success and Awards

Mireille Mathieu, 1971

In addition to French, she sings in English, German, Italian, Spanish , Catalan , Occitan , Russian, Finnish, Japanese, Latin and Chinese. In 1972 she was awarded the Bambi , there were further Bambis in 1973 and 1987. In 1984 she received the Federal Cross of Merit for her services to Franco-German friendship , in 1999 she was made a knight and in 2011 she was made an officer of the Legion of Honor in France. She was guests of Queen Elizabeth II , US President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II , among others . Mathieu also lent her face to the French national symbol Marianne .

Artistic importance

Characteristic of the 153 centimeter tall Mireille Mathieu are her powerful, slightly tremolous voice and her precise articulation and intonation, which she probably developed consciously because her father encouraged her to audition as a child and at the same time had a weakness in reading and spelling had to compensate and suppress her Provencal accent . Her timbre and her performance while singing are reminiscent of Édith Piaf , who was her role model even as a child. Her pageboy hairstyle has remained unchanged since 1965, and she appears in black dresses - the trademark of her role model Piaf. In 1993 she recorded two albums with Piaf chansons (Mireille Mathieu chante Piaf) . The passionate character of Piaf music also became an artistic trademark for Mathieu, from her first great success Mon crédo in 1966 to the French version of the ABBA hit The Winner Takes It All (Bravo, tu as gagné) in 1981. In addition to Dalida and Piaf counts to the national cultural heritage of France and is with the French-Canadian Celine Dion the most commercially successful French-speaking singer.

Discography

Albums (selection)

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	FR
1966	Mireille Mathieu	DE2 (20 weeks) DE	-	UK39 (1 week) UK	-
1967	En direct de l'Olympia	DE14 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-
1968	Sweet Souvenirs of Mireille Mathieu	DE13 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	-
1969	Rendezvous with Mireille	DE25 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	-
	Mireille Mathieu (1969)	DE5 (13 weeks) DE	-	-	-
	Olympia	DE17 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-
1970	Merci Mireille	DE7 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	-
1971	Bonjour Mireille	DE10 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	-
1972	My dreams	DE33 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	-
1973	MM	DE8 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	-
1974	And the wind will sing forever	DE24 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	-
1975	Rendezvous with Mireille Mathieu	DE20 (6 weeks) DE	-	-	-
1976	Sincerely, Mireille	DE27 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	-
1993	Mireille Mathieu chante Piaf	-	-	-	FR29 (13 weeks) FR	Chart entry in FR only in 2003
1998	My world is music	DE34 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-
2002	De tes mains	-	-	-	FR32 (11 weeks) FR
2005	Mireille Mathieu (2005)	-	-	-	FR16 (15 weeks) FR
2006	Films and shows	-	-	-	FR77 (9 weeks) FR
2014	Love lives - the best of Mireille Mathieu	DE98 (1 week) DE	-	-	-
	Une Vie D'amour	-	-	-	FR8th gold (15 weeks)FR
2015	Live Olympia 67/69	-	-	-	FR99 (1 week) FR
	Noël	-	-	-	FR52 (6 weeks) FR
2017	Made in France	-	-	-	FR72 (4 weeks) FR	compilation
2018	Mes classiques	-	CH87 (1 week) CH	-	FR31 (9 weeks) FR
2019	Cinema	-	-	-	FR60 (5 weeks) FR

hatched gray : no chart data available for this year

More albums

• 1967: Made in France
• 1968: Le merveilleux petit monde de Mireille Mathieu chante Noël
• 1969: La première étoile
• 1970: Mireille… Mireille (alternative title: Merveilleuse Mireille)
• 1971: Bonjour Mireille (French album version, CA:gold)
• 1971: Mireille Mathieu chants Francis Lai
• 1971: Une histoire d'amour (CA:gold)
• 1972: Mireille Mathieu
• 1972: Mireille Mathieu (alternative title: J'étais si jeune)
• 1973: Olympia (alternative title: Mireille Mathieu à l'Olympia)
• 1973: C'est l'amour et la vie que je te dois (alternative title: L'amour et la vie)
• 1974: Mireille Mathieu chante Ennio Morricone
• 1974: Le vent de la nuit
• 1975: Disque D'or (CA:platinum)
• 1975: Make a wish - a musical trip around the world with Mireille Mathieu
• 1975: Mireille Mathieu "Apprends-moi"
• 1976: Et tu seras poète
• 1976: And again it is Christmas time
• 1977: La vie en rose (Japan)
• 1977: Sentimentalement vôtre (FR:gold)
• 1977: The most beautiful German folk songs
• 1977: The new hit album
• 1977: The Rhine and the song of the Elbe
• 1978: Fidèlement Votre (FR:gold)
• 1978: All children on earth
• 1978: J'ai peur d'aimer un souvenir (Japan)
• 1979: Mireille Mathieu sings Paul Anka - You and I
• 1979: Mireille Mathieu chante Paul Anka - Toi et moi
• 1979: Such a beautiful evening
• 1979: Romantiquement Votre - Un enfant viendra
• 1980: Un peu… beaucoup… passionnément
• 1980: feelings
• 1981: Bravo tu as gagné (Japan)
• 1981: Je vous aime ...
• 1981: A woman's love
• 1982: a new morning
• 1982: Trois milliards de gens sur terre
• 1983: Je veux l'aimer
• 1983: Just for you
• 1984: Les contes de Cri Cri (with Placido Domingo)
• 1984: Los cuentos de Cri Cri (with Placido Domingo)
• 1984: The tales of Cri Cri (with Placido Domingo)
• 1984: Chanter
• 1985: La démoiselle d'Orléans - Made in France
• 1985: world successes from Paris
• 1985: Les grandes chansons francaises
• 1986: Après toi
• 1986: With love, Mireille
• 1987: Tour de l'Europe - New hits from Europe in 4 languages
• 1987: Rencontres de femmes
• 1988: Les Plus Grands Succès De ... (FR:× 2Double gold )
• 1989: Embrujo
• 1989: L'Américain
• 1990: Ce soir je t'ai perdu
• 1991: Una mujer
• 1991: Mireille Mathieu
• 1993: Under the sky of Paris
• 1995: Vous lui direz ...
• 1996: In my dream
• 1999: It's all just a game
• 2007: In my heart
• 2009: close to you
• 2013: When my song kisses your soul

Singles

German speaking singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1969	Behind the scenes at Paris Mireille	DE5 (17 weeks) DE	AT4 (8 weeks) AT	-	B-side: Martin
	Martin Mireille	DE12 (11 weeks) DE	AT20 (4 weeks) AT	-	B-side of Behind the Scenes of Paris
	Tarata-Ting, Tarata-Tong Mireille	DE18 (15 weeks) DE	AT8 (12 weeks) AT	-	B-side: The miracle of all miracles is love
	The miracle of all miracles is love Mireille	-	AT12 (8 weeks) AT	-	B-side of Tarata-Ting, Tarata-Tong
1970	On a Sunday in Avignon Merci Mireille	DE13 (13 weeks) DE	AT10 (8 weeks) AT	-	B-side: Au revoir mon amour
	I'm fine, Chéri Merci Mireille	DE16 (20 weeks) DE	AT12 (12 weeks) AT	-	B-side: My world is music
1971	All of Paris is a theater Bonjour Mireille	DE15 (14 weeks) DE	AT13 (4 weeks) AT	-	B-side: The children of Montparnasse
	The Parisian tango Bonjour Mireille	DE10 (13 weeks) DE	-	-
	Acropolis adieu Bonjour Mireille	DE3 (25 weeks) DE	-	CH1 (17 weeks) CH	B-side: Summer is coming again
1972	Corsica my dreams	DE17 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	B-side: My dreams
	Happy Hans Mireille Mathieu (1972)	DE16 (14 weeks) DE	-	-	B-side: But I'll never forget you
1973	Rain is beautiful Farewell to La Paloma	DE44 (1 week) DE	-	-	B-side: Three sailors from Marseilles
	Roma, Roma, Roma	DE29 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	B-side: Mon Père
	Farewell to La Paloma Farewell to La Paloma	DE- gold DE	AT3 (36 weeks) AT	CH3 (12 weeks) CH	B-side: My last dance
1974	If love wants and the wind will sing forever	DE27 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	B-side: How was your life
	And the wind will sing forever And the wind will sing forever	DE28 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	B-side: The sad tango
1975	The Tsar and the Girl (Better to live free as a bird than to be in a golden cage) Rendezvous with Mireille	DE8 (23 weeks) DE	AT6 (16 weeks) AT	-	B-side: The bells of Notre Dame
1976	Aloah-he rendezvous with Mireille	DE36 (2 weeks) DE	-	-	B-side: Farewell to you
	Little swallow (it's never too late to return home) Sincerely, Mireille	DE25 (6 weeks) DE	AT21 (4 weeks) AT	-	B-side: It used to be a love
1978	Santa Maria All children of this earth	DE13 (21 weeks) DE	AT17 (12 weeks) AT	-	B-side: Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
1979	Natascha is waiting at home. Such a beautiful evening	DE43 (1 week) DE	-	-	B-side: A romantic man
1983	Just for you Just for you	DE39 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	B-side: We have a long way to go
1984	Good-bye, my love (forgive me, my love)	DE47 (7 weeks) DE	AT25 (2 weeks) AT	-	with Peter Alexander B-side: Only dreams never die

hatched gray : no chart data available for this year

More singles

• 1967: A look from you / Casino Royale
• 1975: Paris a hundred years ago / Every child in the world
• 1976: The wine was from Bordeaux / It's time for music
• 1976: But Heidschi Bumbeidschi / White Winter Forest
• 1977: Waltz of love / On verra
• 1977: Love is only known to those who have lost it
• 1977: Take the guitar / s'agapo again
• 1978: All children on earth / you or me
• 1979: If it weren't for love / Nobody likes to be alone
• 1980: Days made of glass / When two love each other
• 1980: Chicano / Pearly Dumb
• 1981: You don't have to tell me anything about love / My first love
• 1981: A woman's love / This is how I want to live with you
• 1982: The Clochard / Just you
• 1982: The love for you / What now
• 1982: Vai colomba bianca / Do it for love
• 1984: Mon Amour - In the arms of your tenderness / We are all children of God
• 1984: back to tenderness
• 1985: The wind told me a song / Being lost
• 1985: I look into your eyes / cloud in the wind
• 1986: To me, to love means to live with you / Only those who love
• 1986: You know I love you / They say a word
• 1987: My heart was never there / The way you are
• 1987: children of the world
• 1993: Please don't look at me like that
• 1994: Love fairground
• 1996: fire in the blood
• 1996: In my dream

French speaking singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1966	C'est ton nom	DE33 (4 weeks) DE	-	-	-
	Qu'elle est belle Mireille Mathieu	DE35 (1 week) DE	-	-	-
	Un homme et une femme Mireille Mathieu	-	AT11 (8 weeks) AT	-	-
1967	La dernière valse Made in France	DE30 (6 weeks) DE	-	CH3 (3 weeks) CH	UK26 (7 weeks) UK

hatched gray : no chart data available for this year

More singles

• 1966: Mon credo
• 1966: Paris en colère
• 1967: Les Yeux de L'Amour / Casino Royale
• 1967: Quand tu t'en iras
• 1968: Una canzone
• 1968: Ensemble
• 1968: Les bicyclettes de Belsize
• 1968: C'est à Mayerling
• 1969: La première étoile
• 1969: Mon bel amour d'été
• 1970: Pardonne-moi ce caprice d'enfant
• 1970: Pourquoi le monde est sans amour
• 1970: Donne ton cœur, donne ta vie
• 1971: Une histoire d'amour
• 1971: Goodbye to Acropolis
• 1971: Mille fois bravo
• 1972: Corsica
• 1972: En frappant dans nos mains
• 1973: La Paloma, adieu (FR:gold)
• 1973: Roma, Roma, Roma
• 1974: Le vent de la nuit
• 1974: L'amour oublie le temps
• 1974: Un jour tu reviendras
• 1975: On ne vit pas sans se dire adieu
• 1975: Apprends-moi
• 1975: Tous les enfants chantent avec moi
• 1976: Ma mélodie d'amour
• 1976: Ciao, Bambino, sorry
• 1977: Mille colombes (FR:gold)
• 1977: Amour défendu
• 1978: Santa Maria de la mer (FR / CA:gold)
• 1978: Un dernier mot d'amour
• 1979: Toi et moi (with Paul Anka)
• 1979: Un enfant viendra
• 1980: Une femme amoureuse (FR:gold)
• 1981: Bravo tu as gagné (with ABBA)
• 1982: Trois milliards de gens sur terre
• 1983: A Santa Maria
• 1983: Je veux l'aimer
• 1984: On est bien
• 1984: Chanter
• 1985: Les avions, les oiseaux
• 1985: Made in France
• 1985: La demoiselle d'Orléans
• 1985: Après toi
• 1987: Rencontres de femmes
• 1987: L'enfant volant
• 1988: L'enfant que je n'ai jamais eu
• 1989: La violence celle qui tue avec les mots
• 1989: L'Américain
• 1990: Ce soir je t'ai perdu
• 1991: Que pour toi
• 1995: Vous lui direz
• 2002: La solitude
• 2005: Une place dans mon cœur

English speaking singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK
1968	Sometimes Sweet Souvenirs of Mireille Mathieu	DE37 (2 weeks) DE	AT3 (16 weeks) AT	-	-	B-side: Sweet Souvenirs of Stefan
	Sweet Souvenirs of Stefan Sweet Souvenirs of Mireille Mathieu	DE25 (8 weeks) DE	-	-	-	B-side of Sometimes
1983	Together We're Strong	DE34 (11 weeks) DE	-	-	-	with Patrick Duffy B-side: Something's Going On

More singles

• 1967: When You Return / Tonight's the Night
• 1970: Can a Butterfly Cry / Dear Madame
• 1971: Nobody
• 1974: La Paloma Goodbye / Acropolis adieu (Goodbye My Love)
• 1979: You and I / A man and a Woman (with Paul Anka)
• 1982: The Waltz of Goodbye / People (1982)
• 1986: Don't Talk to Me of Love (with Barry Manilow)
• 1889: My Life

Italian singles

• 1970: Scusami se… / Vivrò per te
• 1971: Nata libera / Quando verrano i giorni
• 1974: C'era una volta la terra mia
• 1981: Roma, Roma, Roma (Gialla e rossa comé un fioré) / instrumental
• 1987: Donne senza età / Un fuoco

Spanish singles

• 1968: Rin-Rin (EP)
• 1970: El amor es uno / El viejo amor
• 1974: La Paloma vendrá / Acropolis adios
• 1981: Madrecita del Nino Dios (Santa Maria) / Solamente una vez
• 1989: Embrujo
• 1991: Vivir de suenos

More successful titles in different languages

• Otschi tschornyje (Russian)
• Podmoskownyje vechera (Moscow Nights) (Russian)
• Moli roah (Chinese)
• Anteeksi suo (Pardonne-moi ce caprice d'enfant) (Finnish)
• Suna no shiro (Japanese)
• My man (English)
• Non pensare a me (Italian)
• Caruso (Italian)
• Una Mujer (Spanish)

Honors

• In 1984 she received the Federal Cross of Merit .
• In 1988 a rose variety was named after Mathieu.

Rose 'Mireille Mathieu', Kordes, 1988

• 2018, she was of the philosophical faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University , the honorary doctorate awarded.

literature

• Oui, je crois , with Jacqueline Cartier, Paris, R. Laffont, 1987.

Web links

Commons : Mireille Mathieu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website: Mireille Mathieu - La Demoiselle d'Avignon (John Huber)
• Mireille Mathieu at Discogs
• Mireille Mathieu on MusicBrainz (English)
• Mireille Mathieu in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The French play on words Piaf d'Avignon ("the Piaf of Avignon") actually refers to Édith Piaf , whose stage name was la môme Piaf ( môme is a family term for "child" or "small", Piaf is a slang term for " Sparrow "), in the reverse translation it became" the Sparrow of Avignon "
2. ↑ http://www.sonymusic.fr/news/mireille-mathieu-fete-ses-50-ans-carriere/
3. ↑ http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2014/10/26/1979557-ambassadrice-chanson-francaise-mireille-mathieu-fete-50-ans-carriere.html
4. ↑ http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/provence-alpes/2014/11/09/mireille-mathieu-en-concert-avignon-588590.html
5. ↑ http://www.voici.fr/bios-people/mireille-mathieu
6. ↑ http://www.francebleu.fr/evenements/musique/mireille-joue-domicile-1898140
7. ↑ letigre.fr: Mireille Mathieu 50 ANS DE CARRIÈRE ( Memento of October 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Mireille Mathieu , DER SPIEGEL 53/1966 of December 26, 1966, p. 100.
9. ↑ Michael Fischer, Fernand Hörner (ed.): Lied und popular Kultur (Yearbook 2012) , Waxmann 2013, p. 232, ISBN 978-3830927877 .
10. ^ Daniel Ichbiah, 50 ans des chansons Françaises , 2012, p. 1929.
11. ^ Barclay Plans Push in Scandinavia , Billboard Magazine, May 21, 1966, p. 39.
12. ↑ 'The Last Waltz' Chalks up it's 16th Recorded Version , Billboard Magazine, December 9, 1967, p. 80
13. ↑ Mireille Mathieu 'New Piaf' , Billboard Magazine of March 25, 1967, p. 53 f.
14. ^ Mathieu, Adamo Top French Singer Poll , Billboard Magazine, June 17, 1967, p. 46.
15. ↑ BRAVO No. 22 of May 22, 1967.
16. ↑ Christian Bruhn, Marmor, Stein und Liebeskummer , 2005, p. 171.
17. ^ Siggi Loch: Record boss out of passion , 2010, o. P.
18. ↑ Christian Bruhn, Marmor, Stein und Liebeskummer , 2005, p. 173.
19. ↑ Christian Bruhn, Marmor, Stein und Liebeskummer , 2005, p. 110.
20. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK FR
21. ↑ Awards for Music Sales: FR CA
22. ^ Günter Ehnert: Hit Bilanz - German Chart Singles 1956-1980 . 1st edition. Verlag popular music-literature, Norderstedt 2000, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 445 .