May 16, 2012

Karaoke: Love is Blue

Older readers may be familiar with Paul Mauriat. He is a composer that was very big in Japan. Japan made superstars (in Japan) out of many instrumental music makers (see the popularity of The Ventures in a previous karaoke post).
I only became cognizant of him after being intrigued by a track of his in the 20th Century Boys movie. But the man provided the background music of my childhood. Here is one of songs, that was a hit in America, in three languages
Japanese:
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French:

English:

Or perhaps you are a purist and just want the orchestral version.
I have a French-fluent coworker, so I think we will tag-team this song.

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  1. UnknownMay 26, 2012 at 3:39:00 AM GMT+9

    Whoa! I'd totally forgotten about Paul Mauriat until I saw your post. A few years ago, when they were still together, I used to love a Japanese band called Lareine, and the lead singer cited Mauriat as one of his influences. I've never heard the song in your post before, but I can definitely hear how it influenced Japan's Romance aesthetic (Rose of Versailles and such...the same theme Lareine went for).

    Anyway, thanks for reminding me of this! It's a nice memory :D

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