Under Paris Skies! Mantovani Orchestra, The Paris Musette, 101 Strings & The Melachrino Strings - HD

Professor Howdy’s newest YouTube offering unfurls like a dream set to music—a tender promenade beneath Under Paris Skies (Sous le Ciel de Paris), the hauntingly beautiful melody born in 1951 through the genius of composer Hubert Giraud and lyricist Jean Dréjac. Written as the theme for the French film of the same name, the song quickly escaped the silver screen, becoming a hymn of the heart to the world’s most romantic city. Every note drapes the listener in the fragrance of lilacs, the glow of lamplight on cobbled streets, and the whispered promises of lovers who stroll along the Seine beneath an endless twilight sky.

In this shimmering new video, the melody blossoms through the artistry of four magnificent orchestras, each like a painter with a different brush, tinting the Parisian canvas with its own exquisite hue:

🌹 The Mantovani Orchestra — Mantovani’s strings descend like liquid gold, each note cascading with silken grace. His signature “cascading strings” style makes the melody glisten, as though the very stars of Paris were falling into the listener’s lap.

🌹 The Paris Musette — Here the accordion sighs and dances with unmistakable authenticity. The Musette sound, born in the boisterous dance halls and hidden cafés of Montmartre, is the heartbeat of Paris itself—earthy, joyous, and tenderly bittersweet.

🌹 The 101 Strings Orchestra — With sweeping grandeur and cinematic breadth, the 101 Strings transform the tune into a wide boulevard of sound, majestic and expansive. Listening to them is like watching dawn spill across the city’s rooftops, turning every stone cathedral and wrought-iron balcony into a thing of glowing splendor.

🌹 The Melachrino Strings — In contrast, George Melachrino’s strings are hushed and intimate, like a whispered confession in a candlelit room. Theirs is music to dream by, a velvet caress of tone that makes Paris seem not only a place, but a feeling—warm, tender, eternal.

Together, these orchestras weave an iridescent tapestry of love, longing, and light, a musical bridge that carries the listener straight to the boulevards and bridges of Paris.

✨ And at the heart of it all is Professor Howdy, the gentle curator of beauty who has spent decades weaving together music, humor, and thought. While his YouTube channel is now an enchanted gallery of more than 4,000 music videos with over 31 million views, his journey of sharing began far earlier. In 1996, with the rise of the internet’s earliest days, Professor Howdy launched Thought & Humor through Yahoo Groups—an inspired mingling of witty satire, warm encouragement, and biblical wisdom. Sent to over one million mostly college students worldwide, these sparkling emails shaped and brightened countless lives, reminding young seekers that truth and laughter could walk hand in hand.

Thus, this latest video is more than a performance—it is a continuation of a life’s mission: to stir hearts with beauty, to awaken minds with thought, and to bring a smile with gentle humor. Under the Paris skies, as the orchestras play and the city sighs, we glimpse what Professor Howdy has always sought to share: that life itself, when set to music and truth, is a symphony of hope...