From '' Impossible ''
Label: Wild Flower – LP-375
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Jamaica
Released: 1975

Tracklist
A1 And I Love You So
Written-By – Don McLean
A2 It's Impossible
Written-By – Armando Manzanero, Sid Wayne
A3 Sing A Song
Written-By – Joe Raposo
A4 Tie A Yellow Ribbon
Written-By – Irwin Levine, L. Russell Brown
A5 Mammee Blue
Featuring [Uncredited] – Ken Boothe
Written-By – Hubert Giraud, Phil Trim
B1 You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
Written-By – Stevie Wonder
B2 Love Is Blue
Written-By – André Popp, Bryan Blackburn, Pierre Cour
B3 You Make Me Feel Brand New
Written-By – Linda Creed, Thom Bell
B4 Behind Closed Doors
Written-By – Kenny O'Dell
B5 Jean
Written-By – Rod McKuen

Guitar – Willie Lindo
Organ – Harold Butler, Organ D
Drums – Paul Douglas
Bass – Val Douglas

Liner Notes – Charlie Babcock

Artwork, Cover [Cover Design] – Cecile Ho-On
Photography By – Gillie Kong

Notes
"Recorded in the Studios of Federal Record Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
220 Marcus Garvey Drive,
Kingston 11."

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"Mamy Blue" is a 1970 song by French songwriter Hubert Giraud.
Originally written with French lyrics, the song was rendered in English in 1971 to become an international hit for the Pop-Tops, Joël Daydé (fr) and Roger Whittaker.
A hit in Italy with Italian lyrics for Dalida and in France in its original French for Nicoletta, "Mamy Blue" was also rendered in a number of other languages in cover versions recorded by a good number of local recording artists across continental Europe, while a "local cover" of the English-language version by Charisma reached no.1 in South Africa.
The song's title is sometimes spelled "Mammy Blue" in the English-speaking world.

Composition and first recordings

The song was originally written with French lyrics in 1970 by veteran French songwriter Hubert Giraud; he conceived the song in his car waiting out a Parisian traffic jam and had completed its demo within a few days. After four months, the first recorded version of "Mamy Blue" was made – with Italian lyrics – by Ivana Spagna marking that singer's recording debut.

In May 1971, Alain Milhaud, a Swiss record producer based in Spain, acquired the song for Pop-Tops, a Spanish group he managed. Milhaud produced the Pop-Tops' recording of "Mamy Blue" in a session in London after the group's frontman Phil Trim wrote English lyrics for the song.
The French Barclay label expediently had the song covered by both Joël Daydé and Nicoletta: Daydé's version – featuring Phil Trim's English lyric – was recorded at Olympic Sound Studio in London and the Decca Studio in Paris with Angela Morley as arranger, while Nicoletta's version was produced by Hubert Giraud and was the first recording of the song with Giraud's French lyrics.

Charting versions

Continental Europe

The Pop-Tops and Joël Daydé both reached no.1 on the French charts with "Mamy Blue" while the Nicoletta version rose as high as no.4, affording the singer her career record. Both the Pop-Tops and Daydé versions became concurrent major hits in several other territories including Belgium where the Pop-Tops and Dayde's versions reached no.1 on respectively the Dutch and French chart with Pop-Tops reaching no.3 on the latter, the Netherlands where Pop-Tops reached no.3 and Daydé no.13, Norway where Pop-Tops reached no.1 and Daydé no.3 and Sweden where Pop-Tops reached no.1 and Daydé no.6. In Spain Daydé's English version of "Mamy Blue" reached no.2 while the Pop-Tops reached no.1 with a specially recorded version of the song in Spanish. In the same year, Watchpocket recorded the song in USA.

In Germany, the Pop-Tops spent ten weeks at no.1 while the Daydé version only charted peripherally at no.40: a German rendering recorded by Ricky Shayne would afford Shayne his best ever German chart showing with a no.7 peak. The Pop-Tops also rendered "Mamy Blue" in Italian with a resultant no.1 in Italy where a local cover by Dalida would chart with a no.19 peak: another Italian cover by Johnny Dorelli failed to chart as did the English version by Ricky Shayne in its Italian release. Ricky Shayne's English version did appear in the French Top Ten (peak: no.8) with the Daydé, Nicoletta and Pop-Tops versions: Shayne's English-language version also charted in Belgium's French Region (Top Ten).

The Pop-Tops English version also reached no.1 in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland, and was a hit in Greece with sales of 50,000 units; in Denmark and Finland the song also reached the Top Ten via an English-language cover by Roger Whittaker – no.4 in Finland – while in both territories local translated covers of the song also charted – in Denmark, Eric Aae's version reached no.5; in Finland, the cover by Kirka reached no.2 beneath the Pop Tops' no.1 ranking.

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