In 1994, he signed with Japanese record company Pony Canyon, where he re-recorded some of his greatest hits and wrote new compositions.
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He gave his final performance in the Sayonara Concert, recorded live in Osaka, Japan, but his orchestra continued to tour around the world before his death in 2006.
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In the 1960s, he co-wrote (with Pierre Cour) two songs for the Eurovision Song Contest — Tom Pillibi, which won the competition for France in 1960, and L'amour est bleu (Love is Blue) which came fourth for Luxembourg in 1967, but which later became a Number one hit in the US for Paul Mauriat.
Other versions only available on an album including those by Dalida (1960), Paul Mauriat (1967), Michèle Torr (1977), Nana Mouskouri (1972), Boney M. (1981), Claudia Jung (1996), Daniela Simmons (2006), Nicole (1994), Mireille Mathieu and Josh Groban (2007), and Mary J. Blige (2013).
"Une chanson c'est une lettre" was composed by André Popp, who previously had written Vicky Leandros' 1967 entry "L'amour est bleu", which only finished 4th in the Contest but still went on to become a worldwide hit when covered by French band leader Paul Mauriat.