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)