William Fisher Orchestra and Chorus - Make Believe

1. Come and Spend Your Life with Me
2. I Won't Try
3. You'll Never Hurt Me Again
4. Make Believe
5. Happy Birthday
6. Ship of Truth
7. Will You Be There
8. Fairy Tales
9. Just Like Spring
10. Walking Through Life with You

Make Believe

Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra - The New Limelight & Chacksfield Plays Bacharach

1. Limelight
2. The Man That Got Away
3. In the Still of the Night
4. Scarlet Ribbons
5. Smile
6. Tonight
7. Theme from "Picnic" Introducing "Moonglow"
8. Come Rain or Come Shine
9. Night and Day
10. Here I Am
11. Warsaw Concerto
12. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
13. Alfie
14. I'll Never Fall in Love Again
15. This Guy's in Love with You
16. Paper Maché
17. Trains and Boats and Planes
18. (They Long to Be) Close to You
19. You'll Never Get to Heaven
20. The Look of Love
21. To Wait for Love
22. The Green Grass Starts to Grow
23. Wives and Lovers

The New Limelight & Chacksfield Plays Bacharach

Herbert Rehbein and His Orchestra - The Complete LP Collection - Disc One

1. When I Fall in Love
2. Don't Talk to Me
3. East of the Sun
4. Chances Are
5. The Lady Smiles
6. Prisoner of Love
7. I Love You So
8. Love Is Here to Stay
9. If I Had You
10. Moon Maid
11. Speak Low
12. Dry Eyes
13. Love After Midnight
14. Lil Darlin'
15. Yesterday
16. Lady
17. September Song
18. A Gypsy in Manhattan

The Complete LP Collection - Disc One

Count Basie - Frankly Basie - Count Basie Plays the Hits of Frank Sinatra

1. The Second Time Around
2. Hey! Jealous Lover
3. I'll Never Smile Again
4. Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week
5. This Love of Mine
6. I Thought About You
7. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
8. Come Fly with Me
9. On the Road to Mandalay
10. Only the Lonely
11. South of the Border
12. All of Me
13. My Kind of Town
14. Come Rain or Come Shine
15. Hey! Jealous Lover (Alternate Take)

Frankly Basie

Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra - Good Life Music - Free and Easy Vol. 9

1. Love Theme from “You Can't Win 'Em All”
2. I'm in Love
3. Hit the Open Road
4. Over the Rainbow
5. Sweet Caroline
6. Flight to Mecca
7. Free and Easy
8. Magic Moments
9. Gone with the Wind
10. Wait for Me
11. Laura
12. Susan
13. Bell Bottoms
14. At the End of Our Love
15. Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
16. Me and My Shadow

Free and Easy

Available for the first time on CD, this album, recoded in the spring of 1970, was Bert Kaempfert’s last production in "classical" two-track stereo before he began using the eight-track system for his recordings. Once again he and his orchestra made music which was truly "free and easy" in every way, and indeed nothing can be compared with Kaempfert's music: in arranging the carefully chosen pieces for his orchestra, he always ensured that the melody remained in the foreground.

In addition to the highly popular Sweet Caroline, a top-ten hit written by Neil Diamond, Bert Kaempfert also looked back to that old jazz favorite Gone With The Wind from 1937, and to two world-famous film melodies: Over The Rainbow was sung by Judy Garland in the 1939 film musical "The Wizard Of Oz" and became her signature tune for the rest of her life, while Laura, from the 1944 crime film of the same name, brought the film composer David Raksin lasting fame.

Two of the eight original compositions by the Bert Kaempfert-Herbert Rehbein team also originate from a film: "You Can't Win 'Em All," starring Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson, was an adventure film made in 1969 whose action took place in the Ottoman Empire after the First World War. With the music to this film - the majestic love theme and the action-packed Flight To Mecca are heard here - Bert Kaempfert once again broke his resolution never to write a soundtrack again, something he had sworn after the strenuous work on the film "A Man Could Get Killed" with a melody which later became a hit all over the world, Strangers In The Night.

Three of the bonus tracks are taken from the album BERT KAEMPFERT NOW! from 1971. At The End Of Our Love, written by Bert Kaempfert and Herbert Rehbein, is on the other hand absolutely brand new the world over, being a previously unreleased recording from 1969!

(Bert Kaempfert Music, Hamburg)

Ray Ellis and His Orchestra - Dancing with Gigi

1. The Night They Invented Champagne
2. Gigi
3. I Remember It Well
4. I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore
5. Say A Prayer for Me Tonight
6. Thank Heaven for A Little Gigi
7. Waltz at Maxim's
8. It's A Bore
9. The Parisians
10. A Toujours

Dancing with Gigi

Ray Anthony - Dream Dancing "V" - Dancing for Lovers

1. You Are Too Beautiful
2. My Silent Love
3. Teach Me Tonight
4. Just Friends
5. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
6. It's the Talk of the Town
7. Don't Worry About Me
8. My Love
9. From Here to Eternity
10. I Wish You Love
11. But Not for Me
12. These Foolish Things
13. You Go to My Head
14. I'll Close My Eyes
15. Man I Love

Dancing for Lovers

The Ted Heath Orchestra - A Salute to Glenn Miller

1. In the Mood
2. Little Brown Jug
3. At Last
4. Chattanooga Choo Choo
5. Moonlight Serenade
6. American Patrol
7. Anvil Chorus
8. String of Pearls
9. I've Got A Girl in Kalamazoo
10. Pennsylvania 6-5000
11. Serenade in Blue
12. Tuxedo Junction

A Salute to Glenn Miller

Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra - Good Life Music - One Lonely Night Vol. 8

1. One Lonely Night
2. I May Be Wrong
3. Petula
4. Some of These Days
5. Reminiscing
6. One Morning in May
7. Can't Take My Eyes Off You
8. Only in Your Arms
9. This Guy's in Love with You
10. The Maltese Melody
11. Our Street of Love
12. Games People Play
13. Are We Becoming Strangers
14. Love Me Happy
15. Sunset Melody
16. Honeymoon

One Lonely Night

ONE LONELY NIGHT, recorded in Hamburg in October 1968 and released at that time in America under the title WARM AND WONDERFUL, is now being released for the very first time on compact disc. Melodies chosen with great care and frequently played in their day by American radio stations are presented here in an elegant, swinging "continental style" by Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra. The soloists are Werner Gutterer on the trumpet and Herb Geller on the flute.

The six original compositions by Bert Kaempfert and Herbert Rehbein range from dreamy, tranquil numbers such as Only In Your Arms and Our Street Of Love to the swinging Petula and the snappy, Spanish-sounding Maltese Melody, a work which also inspired Herb Alpert And His Tijuana Brass to enter the recording studio and brought him great success. The remaining titles are all old favorites and top hits in their day.

Frequently heard in films, I May Be Wrong was originally composed for the revue entitled "John Murray Anderson’s Almanac" of 1929 and constituted the only really great success of its writers, Henry Sullivan and Harry Ruskin. Some Of These Days, composed as early as 1910 by Shelton Brooks, gave the career of American singer and actress Sophie Tucker a tremendous thrust: the song became her signature tune and rendered the title for her autobiography.

One Morning In May was composed in 1934 by the great American songwriter Hoagy Carmichael; it was one of his personal favorites and became famous through recordings by Tommy Dorsey and Sarah Vaughan amongst others. Can't Take My Eyes Off You, from 1967, brought the singer Frankie Valli a gold record and also proved a great success for The Letterman and Nancy Wilson. A gold disc was awarded also to Herb Alpert And His Tijuana Brass for his recording of This Guy's In Love With You, composed in 1968, one of the greatest hits ever to have been written during the Sixties by America's probably most successful songwriting duo of Burt Bacharach and Hal David; it was a top-ten hit for Bacharach's favorite performing artist Dionne Warwick.

Included in this CD are three bonus tracks from the album TRACES OF LOVE, produced in 1969. Sunset Melody and Honeymoon (both recorded around 1969/70) are, however, two previously unreleased compositions by the Kaempfert-Rehbein team which were recently discovered in the tape archive.

(Bert Kaempfert Music, Hamburg)

Nat King Cole - The Unforgettable Nat Cole Sings The Great Songs!

1. An Affair to Remember
2. You're My Thrill
3. Fascination
4. Farewell to Arms
5. I Wish I Knew
6. For the Want of A Kiss
7. There's A Gold Mine in the Sky
8. Happy New Year
9. Be Still My Heart
10. Around the World
11. I Had the Craziest Dream

The Great Songs

Johnny Keating's Kombo - Percussive Moods

1. Colonel Bogey
2. In the Still of the Night
3. Mountain Greenery
4. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
5. Headin' North
6. The Donkey Serenade
7. The Trolley Song
8. Delilah
9. Bali Ha'i
10. Don't Get Around Much AnyMore
11. It Had to Be You
12. Adiós

Percussive Moods

The Conductor

(1927 - 2015)

The Norman Luboff Choir - You're My Girl

1. My Ideal
2. That Face
3. My Darling, My Darling
4. You're My Girl
5. Star Eyes
6. Sleepy Time Gal
7. You Couldn't Be Cuter
8. Too Marvelous for Words
9. Oh! You Beautiful Doll
10. Warm
11. Younger Than Springtime
12. The Object of My Affection

You're My Girl

Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra - Good Life Music - Love Letters Vol. 7

1. Moon Over Naples (Spanish Eyes)
2. Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella
3. The Moon Is Making Eyes
4. Take My Heart Away
5. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
6. Rainbow Melody (More Than Mine)
7. You You You
8. Nothing's New
9. If I Give My Heart to You
10. Rose of Washington Square
11. Let's Go Home
12. The White Cliffs of Dover (There'll Be Bluebirds Over)
13. It Makes No Difference
14. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)
15. Wiederseh'n
16. Love Letters

Love Letters

Now released for the very first time on compact disc, this album opens with a Bert Kaempfert composition which is counted among the world's greatest hits: Moon Over Naples. Recorded in September 1964 and given the working title "moonlight in Napoli," the piece was intended for the LP entitled THE MAGIC MUSIC OF FAR AWAY PLACES which was only released in the USA. It was not long before the excellent team of lyricists Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder wrote a romantic text - and the melody became known as Spanish Eyes.

The recording by the American Al Martino sold millionfold and became "his" song, making the singer famous in all four corners of the globe. Spanish Eyes took its place among the evergreens. To date there are about 500 versions of the melody, published in highly diversified arrangements - from that for the accordion to a Russian balalaika ensemble complete with domra and bajan.

The other titles in LOVE LETTERS, recorded in February 1965, were released in the USA as a follow-up to THE MAGIC MUSIC OF FAR AWAY PLACES in the album THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING and, of course, included this very single (from BLUE MIDNIGHT) which had just become a top-ten hit in the States. This particular production is imbued with the typical "Bert Kaempfert Sound" of the mid-Sixties. The solo trumpet is played by Manfred Moch. A novel timbre is introduced by the use of a melodic guitar with muted strings, as in the Kaempfert composition The Moon Is Making Eyes and the old Lotar Olias hit Du, Du, Du which was a great hit for the Ames Brothers in the Fifties with the Americanized title You, You, You.

Three of the non-Kaempfert compositions come from the world of stage: Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella is a vaudeville song dating from 1928, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square was heard in 1940 in a London theatre production called "New Faces" and was a great success for Glenn Miller and his singer Ray Eberle among others, and Rose of Washington Square was sung by the famous singer and actress Fanny Brice in "Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic."

The White Cliffs Of Dover, the closing number on the original album, was a song composed to arouse optimism during the Second World War and dedicated to suffering England; it was in its day another great success for Glenn Miller and Ray Eberle.

Three of the bonus tracks included on this CD are taken from the album BYE BYE BLUES dating from 1966. And of course a disc entitled LOVE LETTERS must also include the actual number, here extracted from the album DREAMING IN WONDERLAND and produced in 1963.

(Bert Kaempfert Music, Hamburg)

George Siravo and His Orchestra - Siravo Swing Session

1. Margie
2. My Gal Sal
3. Cheerful Little Earful
4. Twelfth Street Rag
5. Who's Sorry Now
6. Some of These Days
7. Ida
8. Mary Lou
9. Honeysuckle Rose
10. Sweet Sue
11. I Ain't Got Nobody
12. Somebody Stole My Gal

Siravo Swing Session

Dick Schory's Percussion Pops Orchestra - Percussion in Hi-Fi Vol. II

1. I Get A Kick Out of You
2. Playboy's Theme
3. Baby Bossa Nova
4. Summertime
5. Satin Doll
6. Lover
7. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. Shim-Wha
9. Quiet Bossa Nova
10. Sleepy Time Gal
11. Little Brown Jug
12. Night Train
13. Take the "A" Train
14. Perdido
15. On Green Dolphin Street
16. Nomad
17. Autumn Leaves
18. Hindustan
19. A String of Pearls
20. Shimboo
21. Stompin' at the Savoy
22. Bijou
23. The Brush Off
24. Krazy Kwilt

Percussion in Hi-Fi Vol. II

Bert Kaempfert - His Greatest Hits - Disc 2

1. Strangers in the Night
2. The World We Knew (Over and Over)
3. Catalania
4. L-O-V-E
5. Midnight Snack
6. Blue Midnight
7. Games People Play
8. Treat for Trumpets
9. Afrikaan Beat
10. Hold Me
11. Bye Bye Blue
12. Wiederseh'n

His Greatest Hits - Disc 2

Bert Kaempfert - His Greatest Hits - Disc 1

1. Wonderland by Night
2. A Swingin' Safari
3. Dankeschon
4. Oh Mein Papa
5. Red Roses for A Blue Lady
6. That Happy Feeling
7. Morgen
8. Moon Over Naples
9. The Bass Walks
10. Happy Trumpeter
11. Tenderly
12. My Way of Life

His Greatest Hits - Disc 1

Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra - Good Life Music - That Latin Feeling Vol. 6

1. O Cangaciero (The Bandit)
2. Sweet and Gentle
3. Maria Elena
4. Mambo Mania
5. Say Si Si (Para Vigo Me Voy)
6. Poinciana
7. The Breeze and I
8. Cha Cha Brasilia
9. Besame Mucho
10. Trumpet Fiesta
11. Bert's Bossa Nova
12. Chicken Talk
13. Mambossa
14. Latin Strings
15. Sucu Sucu
16. Yellow Bird
17. Catalania

That Latin Feeling

Bert Kaempfert and Helmut Brüsewitz shared making the arrangements for THAT LATIN FEELING; the recordings took place in the Polydor Studio in Hamburg-Rahlstedt. In order to achieve a true Latin-American sound, the wind and string sections of Kaempfert’s orchestra were augmented by an exotic range of percussion instruments - bongos, cabasa, congas, cowbell, güiro (rumba gourd), maracas, sandpaper, timbales, triangle, marimba and xylophone - played by Bert Kaempfert's drummer Rolf Ahrens together with percussionists Hans Bekker, Günther Platzek, Max Raths and Manfred Sperling.

Ladi Geisler not only guaranteed a snappy bass guitar but also took the guitar solo in Maria Elena, The Breeze And I and Bésame Mucho; the trumpet solows were allotted to Werner Gutterer (Poinciana), Heinz Habermann together with Werner Gutterer (Trumpet Fiesta), and Manfred Moch (Bert's Bossa Nova); Emil Wurster's tenor saxophone is to be heard in Bert's Bossa Nova and Say Sí Sí (together with Karl-Hermann Lühr on the flute in the latter), while Willi Surmann's bass clarinet vividly brings the clucking of chickens to life in Chicken Talk.

The present CD includes three novelties as an added bonus - Mambossa, Latin Strings and Sucu Sucu, all of which were contained in the original recording tape of THAT LATIN FEELING; of these, only Mambossa was released in the USA on the LP entitled THE MAGIC MUSIC OF FAR AWAY PLACES. Add into the bargain Yellow Bird and Catalania will certainly delight every listener.

Surely no musician on earth can resist the timeless attraction of Latin-American melodies and rhythms - and Bert Kaempfert was no exception. As early as 1958 he proved his "Latin feeling" with the composition of, for example, Catalania and again in 1962 with his arrangement of the traditional melody Yellow Bird. In 1964 he produced a whole LP dedicated to Latin-American tempi.

Alongside stylish original Kaempfert compositions we find "all-time standards": O Cangaceiro came to fame in 1953 through the film "The Bandit"; Maria Elena was a smash hit in 1963 for the guitar duo Los Indios Tabajras; then we have the melancholic love song Bésame Mucho, or Sweet And Gentle, and Poinciana, and last but not least The Breeze And I. Latin-American rhythm in all its variety is represented - the cha-cha, rumba-bolero, merengue and of course the Brazilian bossa nova, which sparked off a craze in the USA in its day, and is heard here in Say Sí Sí and Bert's Bossa Nova.

(Bert Kaempfert Music, Hamburg)