Paul Mauriat - Tu Viens Danser! [1960] (Full Album)
Paul Mauriat was born and grew up in Marseille, France. His father was a postal inspector who loved to play classical piano and violin. Mauriat began playing music at the age of four and enrolled in the Conservatoire in Marseille at the age of 10, but by the time he was 17, he had fallen in love with jazz and popular music. During World War II, Mauriat started his own dance band and toured concert halls throughout Europe. In the 1950s, he became musical director to at least two well-known French singers, Charles Aznavour and Maurice Chevalier, touring with them respectively. In 1957, Mauriat released his first EP Paul Mauriat, a four track RGM release. Between 1959 – 1964 Mauriat recorded several albums on the Bel-Air record label under the name Paul Mauriat et Son Orchestre, as well as using the various pseudonyms to better reflect the international flavour of his recordings. Mauriat composed the music for several French movie soundtracks (also released on Bel-Air), including Un Taxi Pour Tobrouk (1961), Horace 62 (1962) and Faites Sauter La Banque (1964). He wrote his first song with André Pascal. In 1958, they were prizewinners in the le Coq d'or de la Chanson Française with Rendez-vous au Lavandou. Using the pseudonym of Del Roma, Mauriat was to have his first international hit with Chariot, which he wrote in collaboration with friends Franck Pourcel (co-composer), Jacques Plante (French lyrics) and Raymond Lefèvre (orchestrator). Between 1967 and 1972, he wrote numerous songs with André Pascal for Mireille Mathieu; Mon Crédo (1,335,000 copies sold), Viens dans ma rue, La première étoile, Géant, etc. - to name but a few - and contributed 130 song arrangements for Charles Aznavour. In 1965, Mauriat established Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat, and released hundreds of recordings and compilations through the Philips label for the next 28 years. In 1968, his late 1967 cover of the André Popp/Pierre Cour tune «L’ amour est bleu» («Love Is Blue») became a number 1 hit in the US. The song spent five weeks at the top of the charts. Two other Mauriat singles also made the charts in the US – «Love in Every Room/Même si tu revenais» (recorded in 1965; charted in 1968) and the title theme from the movie «Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang». «Love Is Blue» was the first instrumental to hit number 1 on the Billboard charts since the Tornados hit with «Telstar» in 1962 and the only American number-one single to be recorded in France. The success of the song and the album on which it appeared, Blooming Hits, established Mauriat as an international recording star. In 1969, Mauriat started his first world tour with his Grand Orchestra, visiting countries like the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and other Latin American countries.
Paul Mauriat - Tu Viens Danser! [1960] (Full Album)
1. Itsi bitsi petit bikini - 02:23/2. Banjo Boy - 01:57.3. Si je pouvais ne plus t' aimer - 02:14/4. L' Olivier - 02:23/5. Quand tu m' embrasses - 01:59/6. Têtes de bois - 02:21/7. L' enfant prodigue - 01:58/8. L' annonce faite à Betty - 02:36/9. Les marrons chauds - 02:11/10. Le grand train bleu - 02:40
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