Paul Mauriat

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Blooming hits
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link December 16, 1967 (50 weeks)
More Mauriat
  US 122 03/30/1968 (22 weeks)
Mauriat Magic
  US 71 06/08/1968 (18 weeks)
Prevailing airs
  US 142 October 12, 1968 (7 weeks)
Doing My Thing
  US 77 03/01/1969 (18 weeks)
The Soul of Paul Mauriat
  US 157 05/03/1969 (8 weeks)
LOVE
  US 186 11/01/1969 (3 weeks)
Gone Is Love
  US 184 09/19/1970 (3 weeks)
El Condor Pasa
  US 180 05/29/1971 (3 weeks)
Singles
A man and a woman
  AT 13 05/15/1967 (4 weeks)
Love Is Blue (L'amour est bleu)
  DE 32 04/01/1968 (6 weeks)
  AT 19th 04/15/1968 (4 weeks)
  UK 12 02/21/1968 (14 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 01/06/1968 (18 weeks)
Love in every room
  US 60 05/11/1968 (6 weeks)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  US 76 11/23/1968 (8 weeks)

Paul Mauriat (born March 4, 1925 in Marseille , † November 3, 2006 in Perpignan ) was a French orchestra conductor and composer .

Career

He laid the foundation of his career at 17 years by starting their own orchestra in Paris , with whom he during the Second World War in France played. In 1950 he began recording and touring with Charles Aznavour . His music is in the classic big band sound and can be ascribed to "light music". His best-known piece is the number one hit in the USA in 1968 L'amour est bleu ( Love Is Blue ), composed by André Popp for Vicky Leandros , who wrote this title with the text by Pierre Cour at the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 in Vienna for Luxembourg had presented.

Under the pseudonym Del Roma he wrote the hit Chariot for Petula Clark in 1962/1963 together with Franck Pourcel .

In 1985 Mauriat released 3 albums under the title "Classics in the air" in which he interpreted classical highlights such as Bach's D minor Toccata and Mozart's 40th Symphony in modern, pop music-oriented arrangements.

In 1998 Mauriat ended his career in Osaka, Japan . His orchestra continues to travel and play around the world. Under the Sign of easy-listening - revivals of the 1990s Mauriats plant experienced a second peak.

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • Blooming Hits (1967)
  • More Mauriat (1968)
  • Mauriat Magic (1968)
  • Prevailing Airs (1968)
  • Doing My Thing (1969)
  • The Soul of Paul Mauriat (1969)
  • LOVE (1969)
  • Gone Is Love (1970)
  • El Condor Pasa (1971)
  • Classics in the air (1985)
  • Classics in the air 2 (1985)
  • Classics in the air 3 (1985)

swell

  1. ↑ a b US singles: Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Billboard Books, New York 2007, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 . / US albums: The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
  2. ↑ Chart data: Germany / Austria ( memento of the original from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chartsurfer.de
  3. ^ British Hit Singles & Albums , 18th Edition, Guinness World Records Limited 2005, ISBN 978-1-904994-00-8 .
  4. ^ Bronson, Fred: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . 3rd revised and expanded edition. New York City, New York: Billboard Publications, 1992, p. 237

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personal data
SURNAME Mauriat, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French orchestra leader and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille , France
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 2006
Place of death Marseille , France