D Minor”, and Pachelbel's “Canon”, given the “Mauriat” spin. El Condor Pasa peaked at number 34 in Australia in 1971 Mauriat's collaboration with long-time arranger Gérard Gambus resulted in the 1978 disco/funk album Overseas Call, which was later rediscovered by rare disco collectors in the 2000s. The album was recorded at the Power Station studio in New York and engineered and remixed by disco producer Bob Clearmountain. One of the tracks, "The Joy of You," was included in DJ Dimitri from Paris' influential 2007 compilation Cocktail Disco. Dimitri described the Cocktail Disco sub-genre as having "that ubiquitous 4/4 beat and flying open high hat, complemented by rich orchestrations, campy over the top vocals, and an often tropical latin vibe. Something that wouldn’t feel out of place in a Broadway musical." He also pointed out that he believes "the same style was called Sleaze back in its days, from roughly 1976 to 1979. There were even DJs specialized in the Sleaze sound which was usually played after hours, in spots with a strong sex-oriented drive." Paul Mauriat enjoyed particular phenomenal success in Japan starting in the late 1960s. He is the only international artist who played two sold-out shows in one day at the famous arena Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. In the early to mid-1980s, Paul Mauriat appeared in several Japanese coffee and wine television commercials, which featured music from his orchestra. He had sold over 15 million albums in Japan and performed over 1,000 shows in 25 Japanese tours by 1996. For several decades, some of Mauriat's compositions served as musical tracks for Soviet television programmes and short movies, such as the 1977 animated Polygon (film), "In the world of animals" (V mire zhivotnykh) and "Kinopanorama", among others. 1998–2006: Retirement and death Paul Mauriat retired from performing in 1998. 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. Mauriat's former lead pianist, Gilles Gambus, became the orchestra's conductor in 2000 and led successful tours of Japan, China, and Russia. Gambus had worked with Mauriat for more than 25 years. In 2005 a classical French Horn instrumentalist named Jean-Jacques Justafré conducted the orchestra during a tour of Japan and Korea. On the 3rd of November 2006, Paul Mauriat had died in Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, at the age of 81. Recordings Relative to