Franck Pourcel et Son Grand Orchestre - I Love You

Bert Kaempfert and His Orchestra - Live In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, 1974

1. Medley: Market Day / Gentleman Jim / Mexican Road / Happy Trumpeter
2. Bye Bye Blues
3. Never My Love
4. A Song For Satch
5. Wonderland By Night
6. That Happy Feeling
7. Strangers In The Night
8. All I Ever Need Is You
9. Blue Midnight
10. Three O'Clock In The Morning
11. Tahitian Sunset
12. Afrikaan Beat
13. Sweet Caroline
14. Take The "A" Train
15. I Cover The Waterfront
16. Let Me Be There
17. Melancholy Serenade
18. Tuxedo Junction
19. L.O.V.E.
20. A Swingin' Safari
21. Red Roses For A Blue Lady
22. Over The Rainbow
23. Skyliner
24. Moon Over Naples (Spanish Eyes)
25. Danke Schoen
26. The Good Life (Marina)

Collectors and Kaempfert fanatics may well ask themselves as they pick up this record, how it is that this is the first live recording to proudly take its place on their shelves. Have they missed an album or two somewhere along the line, or can this really be the frist ever "Live Kaempfert" recording?

The fact is, of course, as the truly initiated will already know, that this is not only the first ever live Kaempfert recording. But what's more, the concert at which it was recorded was the first time ever in Kaempfert's musical career that he appeared with his orchestra, live before a concert audience.

Longstanding writer of hits, musician and arranger supreme, it was nonetheless a totally new experience for the "Maestro" to stand on the podium of the Royal Albert Hall on the evening of 22.4.1974 and to voluntarily welcome several thousand strangers to be present at what had for him hitherto always been a private occasion, usually confined within studio walls. An evening with Bert Kaempfert conducting his own orchestra playing many of his own compositions live before an audience was truly history making.

The titles of those compositions will speak for themselves, as will also the unique musical atmosphere generated by Kaempfert himself as he conducts, on this record, for the first time publicly.

(From the original liner notes)

Live In Concert

Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra - April In Portugal

1. The Portuguese Washerwomen (Les Lavandieres Du Portugal)
2. Petticoats Of Portugal
3. Sempre Que Lisboa Canta
4. Fadistas do Bairro Alto
5. Fora De Portas
6. Fado De Santarem
7. April In Portugal (Coimbra)
8. Tudo Isto E Fado
9. Rosa Engeitada
10. Fado De Vila Franca
11. Por Deus Te Peco
12. Nem As Paredes Confesso

The recordings on the present album, set down in 1958 in the Hamburg Musikhalle by the balance engineer Karl Hinze and typical of the popular music of the day, were originally released under the title PORTUGAL-FADO, WINE AND SUNSHINE (catalogue no. 237 506 SLPHM), but in a different coupling and even with two different covers: it was Bert Kaempfert's very first LP.

With the exceptions of The Portuguese Washerwomen (from the French film of the same name) and the evergreen April In Portugal, all the compositions are relatively unknown in this country being chiefly Portuguese in origin.

To quote the commentary on the original LP cover: "The greater part of (the pieces) is based on fados, the typical Portuguese songs which are accompanied by guitars. The fados can be heard in the authentic atmosphere of the little cafés that are mainy frequented by Portuguese.

Here, amid smoke and wine, the fados are sung by entertainers and customers alike. These haunts are found mainly in the Bairro Alto and Alfama, picturesque quarters of Lisbon, which are eagerly watching over their old tradition. Characteristic for the fados are their rich and conceivable melodies which make them highly listenable to everybody."

Bert Kaempfert's musicians are recruited from the North German Radio (NDR) Orchestra and members of the Viktor Reschke Orchestra, at that time the NDR television orchestra. The concertmaster is Herbert Rehbein, a very old friend of Kaempfert's and co-author of numerous compositions. Ladi Geisler is also not to be missed - not yet with the memorable "cracking" bass guitar but playing a normal electric guitar tuned especially low (in place of an electric bass guitar which was seldom heard in those days). bert Helsing not only plays the solo guitar but also a bandurrilha - an instrument upon which two strings are plucked simultaneously to produce a tone, similar to the mandoline (April In Portugal); further soloists include Rudi Bohn (piano) and Karl Elsner (flute). The delightfully yearning and lyrical sound of Jonny Müller on the harmonica is particularly enjoyable in the compositions Tudo Isto É Fado and Nem Às Paredes Confesso.

(Volker Rippe, from the original liner notes)

April In Portugal

Franck Pourcel et son Grand Orchestre - C'est Magnifique

Classic Dream Orchestra - Greatest Hits Go Classic - Neil Diamond

1. Night Flight
2. Sweet Caroline
3. I Am - I Said
4. Beautiful Noise
5. Song Sung Blue
6. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
7. September Morn
8. Longfellow Serenade
9. Holly Holly
10. Cracklin' Rosie
11. Lonely Looking Sky
12. Red Red Wine
13. Let Me Take You In My Arms Again
14. Night Flight (The Return) - Reprise

Classic Dream - Neil Diamond

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