” Boulevard de la Madeleine ” is the seventh single by The Moody Blues.
Denny Laine and Clint Warwick had left in August 1966 and there was no new material yet. Decca Records drew on material that was still on the shelf with this single, because the new line-up of The Moody Blues was not yet available. Boulevard is again composed by the duo Denny Laine and Mike Pinder and is about a young man who is in love with a Frenchwoman and has agreed to meet on this street in Paris. The love turned out to come from one side; She doesn’t show up. The French atmosphere is represented by accordion-like sounds. Feakes saw an ambitious song heading towards their bigger success, but Justin Hayward and John Lodge were yet to come.
B-side was formed by This Is My House (But Nobody Calls) written by the same duo; the writer sits lonely and abandoned at home; Even a sign of life from a mouse is welcome.
Neither Boulevard nor This Is were on an LP. They were reprinted when The Magnificent Moodies had a reissue in 1988. They did appear on the compilation album for the Dutch market: On Boulevard de la Madeleine. It did not make it into the Veronica Top 40, but was listed in the Radio 2 Top 2000 for years.
In 1976 a cover of the song appeared on the album First of all by Pussycat.
