The Quests – Love Is Blue (Paul Mauriat cover) Sure enough, several other versions bring the song fully into psychedelia. A pleasant melody gets enough oomph from the horn stabs to keep the energy up, and the prominent harpsichord flourishes at least hint at the psychedelic movement going on elsewhere. Though it hardly sounds like what we think of as a number-one hit today, “Love Is Blue” proves quite charming in its unassuming way. 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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