8/29/2023 0 Comments Love is blue vocal version![]() ![]() Having just missed landing on any number of rock classics, I was ready to hate this song. Her version came in a respectable fourth, with Sandie Shaw’s “Puppet on a String” taking the prize that year. Composer André Popp wrote the music a year before under the French title “L’amour est bleu.” Greek singer Vicky Leandros beat Mauriat to the song by a few months, entering it as Luxembourg’s entry into the 1967 Eurovision song contest. Mauriat’s “Love Is Blue” is, itself, a cover. It inexplicably topped the carts for five weeks – that’s a week longer than “Dock of the Bay” would! It does make Mauriat the only French lead artist to ever top the Hot 100, which I suppose is something. Rather than getting a cutting-edge classic pushing rock and pop music forward, I landed on the easy-listening instrumental “Love Is Blue,” as performed by French conductor Paul Mauriat. As you might guess from the mustacheoed photo above, #199 bucks the trend a bit. ![]() #199 falls in 1968, smack in the Beatles heyday, just following recent chart-toppers like “Penny Lane” and “All You Need Is Love.” Other iconic standards of the era from “Respect” to “Light My Fire” lie right around #199 – and #200 is “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay.” A golden era for the Hot 100’s pole position. I rolled #199, and grew quite excited as I began scrolling through the list. For this feature, we use to pick a random number that corresponds to one of (currently) 1,082 number-one hits.
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