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...music business who is more surprised by the record's success than the man who made it: lean, mustachioed French Orchestra Leader Paul Mauriat, 43. A veteran of ten years in Paris recording studios, Mauriat has provided suave backgrounds for such singers as Charles Aznavour and Mireille Mathieu, and has turned out hundreds of piquant pop orchestrations for his own instrumental albums. Three of his albums had been released in the U.SL during the past two years, selling moderately (around 25,000 copies per album) in the same market that supports such American counterparts as Percy Faith and Nelson...
Meanwhile, back in Avignon, it was life as usual at the Mathieu house...
...year ago, Mireille Mathieu was just another unknown teen-ager trying her luck on a French TV show called The Game of Chance, an amateur tal ent contest sandwiched between the halves of a rugby match. Standing rigid as a rail, she sang one two-minute song, but it was enough to send a shock wave of recognition through thousands of viewers. That vibrant power, that haunting, husky throb. It was Edith Piaf reincarnate. Even her birdlike dimensions-4 ft. 10 in., 90 Ibs.-matched Piaf's precisely...
When Mama Mathieu recently announced that she is expecting her 14th child in May, it was headline news in Paris. French law says that anybody who produces that many enfants gets to name Charles de Gaulle as godfather...
...cost of getting to the U.S. is the main obstacle for foreigners, but even when the ocean has been hurdled, money remains a persistent problem-"the largest we have," says USTS Director John W. Black. Yet Sylviane Mathieu, a pretty blonde doctor from Limoges, found that she could get by on $10 a day for food and accommodations after having budgeted $15. Foreigners complain that there are no middle-priced hotels in many U.S. cities: only the expensive and the grubby. By contrast, the motel-"the word that blisters the night sky of the American suburbs in vermilion, green...