Love Is Blue - Al Martino

[@1970groupie]

I have listened to countless numbers of singers over the years and the quality of Al Martino's voice has always impressed me. This song is one of my favs!

[@SW2799]

Apologies for this comment being 12 years late, I am writing it in early March 2024. But you are absolutely correct. This is, in my opinion, the best vocal version of this song. I am a big Al Martino fan, and I really think this song suits him well.

[@richardyoung9024]

BRAVO, BRAVO! Now this is how this song should be sung. 👏👏👏👏👏

[@sapphiretaurus]

I first heard this song when I was 16, in 1997. I've never forgotten it, nor will I ever forget Al Martino. RIP, sir.

[@jamescity1160]

I was digging this song at 17 in 1997! You have awesome taste!

[@sangpengembara3882]

For me, it is the most beautiful song since I was a very young boy.

[@katarinavegetarian8741]

Very beautiful to read. Thank you!

[@DCC5954]

I have been searching for this song for years.... KZbin has all the ones I have been looking for .... this is my life

[@liviocapretti8056]

È la mia vita è il bel mondo dei anni 60 è amore e dolcezza di quei tempi

[@lisa-ls2gf]

Che bello trovare un commento in italiano. Stupenda questa canzone

[@ullakramer9352]

Wunderbares aber trauriges Lied! ❤ Gone but not forgotten Al Martino !

[@davidmenzd5544]

Beautiful song,as nice as the huge instrumental hit

[@OliviaDI]

As the years go by I never forgot how Al Martino sang this song. I had to hear it again today November 2022

[@bookworm1818]

I first heard of Al when I was 15 back in 2004. He's always had a special place in my heart, I love how he had so much emotion in his voice. I was devastated when I learned he passed. I miss him. Heaven has one more angelic voice up there singing now.

[@katarinavegetarian8741]

Be happy anyway little one yu better!

[@bobgreenfield9158]

I first heard this around 2018. I did hear the instrumental version back in the early 70s.

[@ArmenBarçelonista84]

He is awesome...what a beautiful voice and song. What happened to this type of music? Today's music is garbage. I was born in mid 80's, but I listen to this type of music. the artists were sooooo much better in those days. Well God bless them all. Good day folks!!!

[@jasminepatrick1]

Al Martino is my all-time favorite singer. I love his songs and his voice is incomparable.

[@TheLovwomen]

God I love this guys voice

[@dragonfly6908]

I personally prefer Al Martino to Frank Sinatra.

[@amina-pr8xt]

@@dragonfly6908 I prefer Perry Como to both

[@FredPickett]

One of the best We ever had/R.I.P. Al.

[@AndreasMikulski]

Great song of Al Martino. He gives this song immortality.

[@ejp42]

This song is hauntingly beautiful, Im kicking myself for never having heard this song before and Im 45. Thank You God for creating Al Martino

[@AnaJilK]

The best version of this immortal song! GREAT AL MARTINO!!! ♫♪♫♪♫

[@vc4510]

Wow! The Italians never talk but sing. I love his Jonny Fontaine rendition of SPEAK SOFTLY, LOVE.

[@jasminepatrick1]

can't get enough of him............. won't get tired listening to his music......he's the best!

[@dragonfly6908]

I haven't thought about this song for over 20 years, then suddenly today it popped into my head, and I have no idea why, lol.

[@n40tom]

Lol me too

[@glennarcher2988]

Good manly voice, nice treatment if a bit simple

[@sacredgeometry2344]

His voice is well trained he has a lot of control and a good vibrato , nice voice.

[@Vargrrr]

Wow! I loved the tune since I've first heard ist, but this voice is made for it. Loving it!

[@369284ab]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing….beautiful

[@905if6was9]

Al Martino, Rest In Peace, and thank you, so very much, for your music.

[@Peregrinatio52]

The first version of this song I heard was Marty Robbins, and as much as I’ll always love that one, Al’s control of the emotion and passion in his voice is nothing short of incredible

[@mottledbrain]

It must have been in grade 4 that we sang this in class. I knew a version with lyrics and our teacher had us sing it (and maybe played it for us on the school record player). Since this was version hit the radio in 1968 it would have been the winter/spring of '68. Singing as a class was always part of Art "back in the day". My kids never experienced that.

[@deSade_DE]

RIP Al Martino ... beautiful version of this song

[@mocanumarcel1821]

Thank you Al Martine!!

[@mocanumarcel1821]

Thank you al Martino... Very beautiful

[@randbrose]

As many years as I have heard this song, I had never heard the words. Love it. Thanks for posting. Al Martino had such a great voice.

[@SpotterUp]

Beautiful. Wonderful voice. These moments, these kinds of songs are gone, and we can only hope a culture that isn't crass returns to create like this once more.

[@Ratatosk19]

Wow! I had only listened to the instrumental version, and this is very nice! What a beautiful voice!

[@ElCoyote1230]

Immortal, wonderful, melancholic song. thanks a lot for it.

[@MrBluntsworth420]

Glad I found this great old track...Wonderful melody.

[@KathieThomas]

😍 Was talking about this song today and took awhile to find the version I'd grown up hearing. This is it!

[@nr1osfan]

First version I heard was Marty Robbins. Back in the 80's. Ouch. Vicky Leandros does a great version also.....

[@runawaybrideZ]

Oh my goodness this is still brilliant

[@mudsalim]

Al Martino is simply superb.....I've listened to and watched the videos on You Tube spanning his career and am simply speechless at the magnificence of his voice....and what a stage presence !

[@debbiewilson9712]

Growing up, all I knew was Paul Mauriat and the instrumental version. At age 70, this is the first time I've heard the lyrics. Wow!

[@sbrocklee8362]

debbie wilson Wow, heard this version one time when i was 6 or 7, Now I´m 21 and so glad that I by accident heard this on the radio. I mean this song is timeless !

[@ProudKansan08]

When I was in public grade school (two years were in Catholic school), we seemed to have music teachers that were into the music we heard on the radio. The second music teacher we had, had us learn the lyrics to this song for some school program, but, since it was 1968, I forgot them. Just remembered, blue, blue, my world is blue, and red, red, my eyes were red. I hear the instrumental all the time, since its on my favorites list, but, I like to listen to the sung version, too.

[@sabihashaikh1519]

I had heard d Paul mauriett instrumental ven I was just 16 n fell in love vit him ,now m 44 n heard this song for the frst time ,beautiful timeless, soul stirring 😌

[@tamething1]

There is a pretty version sung by Claudine Longet too, mostly in French. It's on i-tunes.

[@АлексейЕвсеев-р7ю]

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[@JayH7745]

I use to own this album on cassette. Always loved the songs and especially this one! :) Wish I knew where that tape went!

[@ANTONY48887]

MAGNIFICO ,QUE GRAN VOZ ,EXELENTE DA GUSTO CANTAR ASI GRACIAS AL MARTINO POR LA VOZ

[@ddraguti]

Wow! I came across this man yesterday on You Tube accidentally typing the thumbnails aside ,never heard for him before.I mean I heard for the Spanish Eyes still had no idea it was him.God but this song, I'm totaly in rock music myself but this is one of the best songs I've ever heard really.So emotional.And that voice! I knew it was something big after first hearing.The second was already too much for me,I was already in state of trance,no resist anymore.This song is like an anthem.Fantastic.

[@parissaz]

oh my god! I used to love this song when I was a child....I've been looking for it for years because I didn't remember the singer's name. Thank you soooooooo much for sharing this.

[@dawnm.divincenzo7774]

This song was featured in an episode of "Millennium".

[@polinaviardo4216]

Oh, it's so beautiful!!!

[@LyndaMCross-o2v]

"Mexican Sylvia" 3/28/1955 🎉Happy Birthday Mommy!🎉My mommy is dancing in heaven 8 yrs. ago she left and her request was to play Love is Blue and Hey Jude in her memory

[@russ6362]

Out of all the versions Al Martinos is my favourite

[@mkinwa]

I haven't heard this since the 60's. THANK YOU!

[@GiulioAramo]

Simply great Al Martino...love is blue for ever...❤❤❤

[@ticket88]

I always loved the way this song modulated from minor to major and back again. Musical artistry seems to have been all but lost after the late mid-20th century.

[@Lyubov91]

I live outside Philly, and my husband went to Al's viewing. My late father-in-law and Al were from the same neighborhood in South Philly and were friends years ago when they both lived there.

[@Lyubov91]

@Holy Jones I had to work and couldn't get the time off.

[@Werewolf0216]

This is so much better than the instrumental...the lyrics are clever and Al Martino's voice rich and haunting.

[@MarinettePFP]

This is beautiful. Would be amazing if there was an extended version.

[@whispperson]

What a Brilliant Recording this is.

[@r.c.anderson5632]

Of all the vocal versions, no singer can top Al Martino's version. Lovely voice on that man!

[@karritolvanen741]

Al´s voice is amazing, but Marty Robbins sings this too? Al´s voice is soft´n sweet, Marty´s voice is lil bit stronger...or how i should say it? anyway great singers both, ;) and few lady´s sing it quite well too(Vicky)???

[@r.c.anderson5632]

I will check them out.... thanks! I think Al Martino is among the most overlooked singers of the 50s and 60s. Just brilliant.

[@karritolvanen741]

:D Al is amazing ,when i try to be a "good husband" i send Al Martino´s or Andy Williams songs to my wife´s facebook accout :D lady´s like that ;) romantic

[@andreaariosto2754]

The Al Martino version is nice, but hardly can compare to the original version sung by the original singer, Vicky Leandros in English kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqe1aKOpf5uoe68 , and in French kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaTIl6Stf7mqZ9k . Both versions, as the other ones Leandros sung in Dutch, German and Italian, have all the original arrangements by Popp which suit much better a female voice, and are delightful.

[@905if6was9]

Damn, damn!... I had only known Martino from The Godfather, but I've always known this song. I've been deprived--Al Martino was great! Thank God I'm finally aware of that.

[@glendagraham5397]

I have been watching The Umberella Academy when this song popped up. I had not heard it since I was a small girl.. Fantastic.

[@tomgilsenan8934]

Saw Al in Dublin just a year before he died. Brilliant

[@enrique_21]

Una joya invaluable, muy preciada, desde la melodía y el sentimiento con el cual fue compuesta...

[@melaniejohnson5455]

This was the no 1 song on the day I was born 8 march 1968

[@dalebradley6039]

In us or uk. ?

[@melaniejohnson1871]

Uk

[@RaineCarosin]

Ah, thank you for posting this... Suddenly, like a ray of sunshine, the voices in my head brought this song to my heart... Love is a many splendoured thing... :-}

[@lindawalls9552]

Adding words to this beautiful melody only detracts from it.

[@reveaglestar]

Ohh, this song takes me back to my teens, in the 60"s

[@G0pZ]

awesome version.

[@paperellino]

Wonderful song of given times .....

[@mohammadtariq6507]

For me it was very melodious music in 1988 when I was about 25 I fell in love

[@manchasflorida13]

It was great of you to post this video. It brought back many childhood memories.

[@ANNMARIELOVIE]

Al was my uncle and growing up...he would sing this to Aunt Nan all the time. I think It was her favorite of his. I to think that this was / is one of his best and one of my favs.

[@musicman201047]

STORY OF MY LIFE...every time I find love...try to trust, the one I love...LEAVES....THEY ALWAYS LEAVE...... I AM A MAN ALONE.....ADRIFT IN A SEA OF PEOPLE...A CASTAWAY IN THE SEA OF LIFE.....

[@josephdockemeyer4807]

And I'm stuck with a love who is like a splinter in my heart. C'est la vie.😩

[@davidwilliams4498]

When i was a kid i heard on radio the marriot instrumental version an my mom would sing words that i never heard before. These lyrics are great an the paul marriot instrumental is awesome.

[@jonaslirio3114]

Lindíssima canção.

[@louism.5996]

Ma version préferée reste celle interprétée par Vicky Leandros en Français, toutefois cette version en anglais dans la voix de ce chanteur que je ne connaissait pas est absolument magnifique! Peu importe la langue, cette chanson touche nos coeurs de partout dans le monde. Il suffit de voir la diversité de commentaires et le nombre des gens que l'écoute. Un italo-américain, peut être; il a une trés belle voix et une grande sensibilité dans sa façon de chanter! Merci! Bravo, je suis trés touché et ému!

[@andreaariosto2754]

Absolutement! C'est dommage que presque toutes les versions originales de cette chanson par Vicky Leandros en hollandais, allemand et italien ne sont pas editées en CD. Seulement la version allemande peut être trouvée en iTunes.

[@sasikumarv.k5136]

It is a sog I have always remembered since I was 15years ols when I first heard it

[@ajijasin]

I love this kind of songs.... easy listening............ smoooooooooooooooottthhhhh.....

[@troubledsole9104]

All my life, I never new this song had lyrics.

[@igo65]

esta canción me hace soñar EXCELENTE VERSION

[@georgepiattoni6003]

Al Martino had a wonderful voice - Iwo Jima Vet, and Johnny Fontane from the Godfather.

[@mauritsvw]

The first seven single I ever bought.

[@GOOSEYGOOSE9]

Al Martino Sang Love Is Blue On Dick Clark's American Bandstand Series,Rest In Peace Mr Al Martino,Mr.Dick Clark.

[@cheeseizmylife8988]

I remember when I first started to like this (I was about 3) and my mom played it on the radio in my room.

[@44skins]

@bookworm1818 I am so glad you love Martino. It just shows you know REAL talent when you hear it friend!!

[@ChrisTweten]

Bought this record for a quarter and it's easily my most played album.

[@cobracommander8751]

Chris Tweten bought it and a couple boxes of vinyls for 3 bucks lol

[@lidiaelena100]

Blue, blue, my world is blue Blue is my world now I'm without you Gray, gray, my life is gray Cold is my heart since you went away Red, red, my eyes are red Crying for you alone in my bed Green, green, my jealous heart I doubted you and now we're apart When we met how the bright sun shone Then love died, now the rainbow is gone Black, black, the nights I've known Longing for you so lost and alone

[@GOOSEYGOOSE9]

I Like Paul Mariat's Instrumental Version,As Well As Al Martino's Vocal Version Of It,And I Really Do.

[@phillipecook3227]

Up till this moment I thought this song was almost the epitome of 1970s kitsch. I was wrong and this man has a fine voice also.

[@fatobranchi]

GREAT!!! Thank you a lot!!

[@ADALIDONE]

Excelente interpretación :) , un gusto escucharla.

[@tjmultimidias8346]

Meu coração vai explodir de tanta felicidade❤🎉🎉🎉🎉 amooooo muito essa música a anos que eu procuro gracas a Deus encontrei😢❤❤❤❤ essa musica é muito importante para mim.

[@oldiespal]

Dear Al, RIP !

[@stevenspire4093]

grandissimo AL MARTINO...VOCE UNICA

[@malindakeala1657]

this maton song

[@ratchaphongphoksupat3524]

thank you oldies but goodies

[@davidliu5384]

Such an unforgettable manly voice❤‍🩹

[@tomc642]

There were many versions of this great song, and my favorite is by Australian lass Heather Harvey and the Thunderbirds. Very rare, but an inspired version.

[@TheLovwomen]

this guy could sing a song !!!

[@orn2504]

โอย!!!..เพลงนี้เคยฟังผ่านหูมาบ้างแล้ว แต่ลืมเลือนไปเสียนานค่ะ แต่เวอร์ชั่นนี้เพิ่งฟังเป็นครั้งแรก ไพเราะไม่แพ้เวอร์ชั่นอื่นเลยนะคะ

[@nagasaki60]

thanks for this song

[@FlorBunbury]

LOVE THE SONG!!!! HERMOSA CANCION

[@deSade_DE]

beautiful

[@hauhut]

that's great voice lovely melody ^^

[@MrJCIRELAND]

Who could dislike this?singer and song supreme,bellisimo.

[@billychao]

I love you Al Martino

[@punchcat0736]

Love this version but Vicky is the original 1967 both are great the best versions

[@brankadragicevic856]

Pure enjoyment!