[Chorus]
I'm sleeping with the one I love
Said I'm sleeping with the one I love
Cause the one I'm with is good to me
He just ain't good enough, oh, oh, oh
[Verse 1]
I strive to do right but I'm doing so wrong
I'm living in this house but I can't call it home
He gives me what I want but it's not what I need
My mind is telling me to stay but my heart wants to leave
[Chorus]
Said I'm sleeping, sleeping, sleeping with the one I love
Oh, because the one I'm with is good to me
But he just ain't good enough, oh
[Verse 3]
Yes, I've tried to shake it off, and I even tried to pray
But I'm still waking up in a bed that don't belong to me
See he offered me the Earth, but instead chose space
I found about the cost, but it's a price I'm willing to pay
[Chorus]
That's why I'm sleeping, sleeping with the one I love
That's why I'm sleeping, I'm sleeping I'm sleeping
Sleeping with the one I love
Cause the one who's here with me, he's good to me
But he just ain't good enough
My love, my love, my love
[Bridge]
See my baby's like a dream but the other man, he haunts me
One is here with me but the other's got me where he wants me
Yes I got a man, but I'm still feeling lonely
Tell you what I'm gonna do
Do, do, do
[Chorus]
I'm sleeping, sleeping, oh, I'm sleeping with the one I love
Oh, because the one I'm with, he's good to me
But he ain't good enough, oh
[Outro]
I tell you that I'm sleeping with (with the one I love)
I tell you that I'm sleeping with the one I love
(With the one I love)
Every, every chance I get, I gotta have him, Lord
(with the one I love)
I don't mean to hurt nobody's feelings
But I'm... I'm telling you he's the one
(With the one I love)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sleeping
(With the one I love)
Anybody, anybody ever felt like this
(With the one I love)
I'm sleeping (with the one I love)
Yes, I'm sleeping, I'm sleeping with the one
(With the one I love)
Sleeping with the one
(With the one I love)
I tell you I'm sleeping
(With the one I love)
'L'amour est bleu' | |
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◄ 'Ce soir je t'attendais' (1966) | |
'Nous vivrons d'amour' (1968) ► |
'L'amour est bleu' (English title: 'Love Is Blue') is a song whose music was composed by André Popp, and whose lyrics were written by Pierre Cour, in 1967. Brian Blackburn later wrote English-language lyrics for it. First performed in French by Greek singer Vicky Leandros (appearing as Vicky) as the Luxembourgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967, it has since been recorded by many other musicians, most notably French orchestra leader Paul Mauriat, whose familiar instrumental version (recorded in late 1967) became the only number-one hit by a French lead artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 in America.
The song describes the pleasure and pain of love in terms of colours (blue and grey) and elements (water and wind). The English lyrics ('Blue, blue, my world is blue …') focus on colours only (blue, grey, red, green, and black), using them to describe components of lost love. The English version by Vicky Leandros also appeared as 'Colours of Love' in some locations including the UK.
The song was the second one performed during the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest. At the close of voting, it had received 17 points, placing 4th in a field of 17, behind 'Il doit faire beau là-bas' (France), 'If I Could Choose' (Ireland) and the winning song, 'Puppet on a String' (United Kingdom). Some forty years after its original release, 'L'amour est bleu', along with Domenico Modugno's 'Nel blu dipinto di blu' (better known as 'Volare') and Mocedades' 'Eres tú', still counts as one of very few non-winning Eurovision entries ever to become a worldwide hit.
Greek-born Leandros recorded the song both in French and English, and had a modest hit in Europe with it, but in Japan and Canada she had a big hit with this song. She also recorded it in German (as 'Blau wie das Meer'), Italian ('L'amore è blu') and Dutch ('Liefde is zacht') . The song has since become a favourite of Contest fans, most notably appearing as part of a medley introducing the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, one of only three non-winning songs to be involved (the others being 'Dschinghis Khan' and 'Nel blu dipinto di blu').
It was succeeded as Luxembourgian representative at the 1968 Contest by Chris Baldo & Sophie Garel with 'Nous vivrons d'amour'. Vicky Leandros went on to win the Contest five years later with the song 'Après toi', again representing Luxembourg.
'Love is Blue (L'amour est bleu)' | ||||
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Single by Paul Mauriat | ||||
from the album Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat – Volume 5 | ||||
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Released | January 1968[1] | |||
Format | 7' | |||
Recorded | Late 1967 | |||
Genre | Easy listening | |||
Length | 2:31 | |||
Label | Philips | |||
Songwriter(s) | André Popp, Pierre Cour | |||
Paul Mauriat singles chronology | ||||
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In late 1967, Paul Mauriat conducted/recorded an orchestral 'easy listening' version that was a number-one hit in the USA for five weeks in February and March 1968, becoming the only performance by a French artist ever to top the Billboard Hot 100 until 2017 when Daft Punk (with Canadian artist The Weeknd) topped the chart with 'Starboy'. Its five-week run at the top was second longest of any instrumental of the Hot 100 era next to 1960's 'Theme from A Summer Place'. It became a gold record. The song spent 11 weeks atop Billboard's Easy Listening survey, and held the longest-lasting title honours on this chart for 25 years. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 2 song for 1968.[2] It is the best-known version of the song in the United States. The Mauriat recording also reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart. The Mauriat album containing 'Love is Blue', 'Blooming Hits' also reached #1 on the Billboard Top Lps and Tapes chart for five weeks.
Mauriat's version was featured repeatedly in an episode of Chris Carter's television series Millennium titled 'A Room with No View', which originally aired on 24 April 1998 on the Fox Network. During the episode, the omnipresent melody is used by a kidnapper to brainwash a group of youths.[3] His version is also briefly heard in The Simpsons episodes 'There's No Disgrace Like Home' and 'The Blue and the Gray.' It was played over the closing credits of Mad Men's sixth-season episode 'The Flood', which takes place during April 1968.[4]
1. | Après toi |
2. | Ich bin wie ich bin |
3. | Ich liebe das Leben |
Thanks for all the appreciation for love is blue this is the song that got interested in learning french. The video I just put below the song is the first performance of love is blue. Original performance at euro vision 67. Paul Mauriat wrote the instrumental version of love is blue in 1968. English lyrics written by Brian Blackburn. Song written by Andre Popp lyrics by Pierre Cour. Email this video to your friend so love is blue remain popular for the next 100 years. Vicky Leandros also sang the english lyrics the same year.
Legrand in 2015 at the Cabourg Film Festival | |
Born | 24 February 1932 Paris, France |
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Died | 26 January 2019 (aged 86) |
Occupation | Film score composer Jazz pianist |
Years active | 1952–2019 |
Awards | Academy Award for Best Original Song 1968 The Thomas Crown Affair Academy Award for Best Original Score 1971 Summer of '42 1983 Yentl BAFTA Award for Best Film Music 1971 Summer of '42 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song 1968 The Thomas Crown Affair AFI Award Best Original Score 1991 Dingo |
Michel Jean Legrand (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl ʒɑ̃ ləɡʁɑ̃]; born 24 February 1932 in the 20th arrondissement of Paris – died 26 January 2019 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and jazz pianist.[1] Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs.[2] His scores for the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song 'The Windmills of Your Mind' from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).[3]
Legrand, who was of Armenian descent,[4] was born in Paris[5] to his father, Raymond Legrand, who was himself a conductor and composer,[6] and his mother, Marcelle Ter-Mikaëlian, who was the sister of conductor Jacques Hélian.[7] Raymond and Marcelle were married in 1929.[7]
Legrand composed more than two hundred film and television scores.[8] He won three Oscars[9] and five Grammys.[10] He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris from age 11, working with, among others, Nadia Boulanger[10] and graduated with top honors as both a composer and a pianist.[8] He burst upon the international music scene at 22 when his album I Love Paris became a surprise hit. He established his name in the United States by working with such jazz stars as Miles Davis and Stan Getz.[1] His sister Christiane Legrand was a member of the Swingle Singers and his niece Victoria Legrand is a member of the indie rock duo Beach House.[11]
Legrand composed music for Jacques Demy's films The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1966), and appeared and performed in Agnès Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 (1961). He also composed music for The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) (which features 'The Windmills of Your Mind'), The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970), The Go-Between (1971), Summer of '42 (1971), Orson Welles's last-completed film F for Fake (1974) and would later compose the score for Welles's posthumously-released movie The Other Side of the Wind (2018). He also composed the score for Yentl (1983), as well as the film score for Louis Malle's film Atlantic City (1980). His instrumental version of the theme from Brian's Song charted 56th in 1972 on the Billboard's pop chart.[12]
Legrand died of sepsis,[13][14] during the night of 25 to 26 January 2019, at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine,[13] where he had been hospitalized for two weeks for a pulmonary infection. His funeral was held in Paris at the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on 1 February 2019.[15] He was interred at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.[16] He remained active until his death and had concerts scheduled to take place in the spring.[17]
In 1997, Legrand composed the score for the musical 'Le Passe-Muraille', with a book by Didier van Cauwelaert. It premiered on Broadway in 2002 as Amour and was translated into English by Jeremy Sams and was directed by James Lapine.[18] This musical was his Broadway debut[19] and he was nominated for a Tony Award in 2003 for Best Score[20]. Later he recorded Legrand Affair with Melissa Errico[20], a 100-piece symphony orchestra that included songs with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.[21]
The world premiere of the new musical Marguerite from Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, the creators of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon, included music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer. Marguerite is set during World War II in occupied Paris, and was inspired by the romantic novel La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils. It premiered in May 2008 at the Haymarket Theatre, London and was directed by Jonathan Kent.[22]
Legrand has won three Oscars (out of 13 nominations), five Grammys, and was nominated for an Emmy. His first Academy Award win was in 1969 for the song 'The Windmills of Your Mind', followed with the Academy Award for his music for Summer of ’42 in 1972 and for Yentl in 1984.[9]
Following are a selection of the awards and nominations with which Legrand's works have been honored:
Source: All Movie[23]
Source: All Movie[23]
Source: Grammy.com[29]
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