Franck Pourcel et Son Grand Orchestre - Amour, Danse et Violons N° 35

1. Paris Violon
2. Cécilia
3. La Nave Del Olvido
4. La Chanson d'Hélène (Du Film "Les Choses De La Vie")
5. Toute La Pluie Tombe Sur Moi
6. Let It Be
7. Na Na He He Espoir
8. Bridge Over Troubled Water
9. Butterfly
10. St. Nicolas
11. Quand Valseront Les Lilas
12. Theme De Borsalino

Amour, Danse et Violons N° 35

Ray Conniff and The Singers - Love Theme from "The Godfather"

1. Love Theme from "The Godfather" (Speak Softly Love)
2. Hurting Each Other
3. A Horse with No Name
4. I Need You
5. Living in A House Divided
6. Precious and Few
7. Without You
8. A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done
9. The First Time Ever ( I Saw Your Face)
10. Theme from "Shaft"
11. The Way of Love

Love Theme from "The Godfather"

Ray Conniff - Hey Jude

1. Hey Jude
2. Sunny
3. Little Green Apples
4. Candida
5. Patricia
6. Frenesi
7. Caravan
8. The Third Man Theme
9. An Affair to Remember
10. Solitude
11. Honey
12. A Man Without Love

Hey Jude

Paul Weston & His Orchestra - Our Love

1. Our Love
2. April in Paris
3. I'll See You in My Dreams
4. Gone with the Wind
5. I Only Have Eyes for You
6. All of Me
7. Poor Butterfly
8. Sometimes I'm Happy
9. If I Love Again
10. Breezin' Along with the Breeze
11. What A Difference A Day Made
12. Laura
13. For You
14. You Took Advantage of Me
15. Everything I Have Is Yours
16. Street of Dreams
17. Some Enchanted Evening
18. Cheatin' on Me
19. I Love You Truly
20. Goodnight Sweetheart

Our Love

Miles Davis - Plays for Lovers

1. There Is No Greater Love
2. Something I Dreamed Last Night
3. That Old Devil Moon
4. You Don't Know What Love Is
5. When I Fall in Love
6. Smooch
7. Will You Still Be Mine?
8. I See Your Face Before Me
9. It Never Entered My Mind
10. You're My Everything
11. My Funny Valentine
12. 'Round Midnight
13. In Your Own Sweet Way
14. Stella by Starlight
15. I Waited for You
16. Nature Boy

Plays for Lovers

Bill Evans - Trio 64

1. Little Lulu
2. A Sleepin' Bee
3. Always
4. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
5. I'll See You Again
6. For Heaven's Sake
7. Dancing in the Dark
8. Everything Happens to Me
9. Little Lulu (Alternate Take 1)
10. Little Lulu (Alternate Take 2)
11. Always (Alternate Take 1)
12. I'll See You Again (Alternate Take 1)
13. My Heart Stood Still (Unused Title)
14. Always (Alternate Take 2)
15. I'll See You Again (Alternate Take 2)
16. My Heart Stood Still (False Starts)

Trio 64

Guy Lombardo - Alley Cat

1. Alley Cat
2. Star Dust
3. Green Eyes
4. Gentle on My Mind
5. Fascination
6. Frankie and Johnny
7. Dancing on the Ceiling
8. Honey
9. I'll See You in My Dreams

Alley Cat

Mantovani - Plays The Immortal Classics

1. Prelude in C Sharp Minor (Rachmaninoff)
2. Minuet from Divertimento in D (Mozart)
3. Romance (Rubinstein)
4. Simple Aveu (Thome)
5. On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn)
6. Largo (Handel)
7. Barcarolle (Offenbach)
8. Ave Maria (Schubert)
9. Cradle Song (Brahms)
10. Air on the G String (Bach)
11. Etude No. 3 in E Major (Chopin)
12. Waltz from Serenade for Strings (Tchaikovsky)

The Immortal Classics

Tony Mottola - Heart & Soul

1. Heart and Soul
2. If He Walked Into My Life
3. Lullabye of the Leaves
4. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
5. Tony's Tune
6. Little Girl Blue
7. Georgia
8. Love Is Here to Stay
9. Jimmy's Blues
10. The Gang That Sang Heart of My Heart
11. The Impossible Dream
12. My Ideal

Heart & Soul

Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra - Good Life Music - The Kaempfert Touch Vol. 13

1. Something
2. Headin' Home
3. Didn't We
4. We Can Make It, Girl
5. Someday We'll Be Together
6. You're Mine
7. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
8. Jean
9. This Woman Is Mine
10. One Day with You
11. She Let's Her Hair Down (Early in the Morning)
12. All for You
13. Me and You and A Dog Named Boo
14. Red Sky at Morning
15. Oh Woman, Oh Why
16. And There Was Love

The Kaempfert Touch

The "Kaempfert Touch" - this term stands for that "certain something" with which Bert Kaempfert laced his music: attractive melodies, elaborate arrangements combining various instruments to produce a soft and gentle sound, the chorus treated in an orchestral manner, mellow trumpets or other solo instruments, a unique rhythm - and all that conducted by a man who knows how to get his musicians to play in a very special and typical manner.

This special "touch" is not only found in compositions by the Kaempfert/Rehbein team but is also used to enhance works by other composers, as is admirably demonstrated by the album THE KAEMPFERT TOUCH, recorded in October 1969 in Hamburg and released at the beginning of 1970. Alongside original Kaempfert/Rehbein numbers such as the dramatic We Can Make It, Girl (which was performed by Malcolm Roberts among others), the truly swinging Headin' Home, the romantic waltz One Day With You or the lively bossa nova All For You, there is a wealth of hits and mega-hits from 1969: Something, which Frank Sinatra regarded as "the greatest love song of the past 50 years," is taken from the Beatles album "Abbey Road" (then brand-new) which brought the Fab Four a gold record; Shirley Bassey's version also landed in the hit parades at the time. Today this song is available in over 150 cover versions - and Bert Kaempfert's is among them. Didn't We was written by Jim Webb, the composer of such pop classics as Up, Up And Away and By The Time I Get To Phoenix. It was a further success for the actor Richard Harris who had discovered his musical talents in the role of King Arthur in the film version of the musical "Camelot"; Webb's melodramatic MacArthur Park had been a previous hit for the actor. America's most successful female group of all time, the Supremes, shot yet again to the top of the charts with Someday We'll Be Together; Diana Ross, the lead singer, took her leave of the soul trio with this song to start an extremely successful solo career.

Alongside such illustrious pop songs, illustrious film melodies must take their rightful place, and so two such numbers - rivals for an Oscar in 1969 - are heard here. While Rod McKuen's Jean from the film "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" had to be satisfied with the honor of being nominated, Burt Bacharach's Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head from "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid," filmed with Paul Newman and Robert Redford and a success all the world over, was awarded the coveted trophy. B.J. Thomas's vocal version stormed to the top of the charts and was one of the greatest successes of the year, bringing him a gold record. The number has since firmly established itself as one of the best known evergreens.

Bert Kaempfert's sound engineer Peter Klemt was awarded a diploma by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for the nomination of the album THE KAEMPFERT TOUCH as "Best Engineered Recording (Non-Classical)," a further testimony to the internationally recognized high quality of Kaempfert recordings.

Among the four bonus tracks on this CD are two previously unreleased Kaempfert recordings: the original composition And There Was Love from 1970 and Me And You And A Dog Named Boo, which was produced in 1971 and has since lain in the archives. Peter Klemt took his seat once more at the mixing console in 1995 to give this title the typical "Kaempfert Touch." The two remaining numbers come from the 1971 album BERT KAEMPFERT NOW!: Red Sky At Morning was composed by Herbert Rehbein while Oh Woman Oh Why stems from the pen of Paul McCartney of the Beatles.

(Bert Kaempfert Music, Hamburg)

Ray Anthony and His Big Band - Boogie Blues and Ballads

1. Boogie Blues
2. Birth of the Blues
3. Swingin' Shephard Blues
4. Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
5. Lil' Darlin'
6. Love Is Here to Stay
7. Kansas City
8. Girl Talk
9. Fly Me to the Moon
10. Memories of You
11. Cow Cow Boogie
12. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
13. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
14. Night Train

Boogie Blues and Ballads

Clebanoff and His Orchestra - Moods in Music

1. Birth of Passion
2. Tango Orientale
3. Take Me in Your Arms
4. Noche De Ronda
5. Romance
6. Forbidden Love
7. Wonderful One
8. Intermezzo
9. La Seduccion
10. Our Waltz
11. Meditation

Moods in Music

Frankie Carle His Piano and Orchestra - Around the World

1. American Patrol
2. Too-Ra Loo-Ra Loo-Ral
3. Loch Lomond
4. Under The Bridges of Paris
5. Sailor Boy
6. Tales from The Vienna Woods
7. Dardanella
8. Arabian Nights
9. Hindustan
10. Shina No Yoru
11. Blue Hawaii
12. South American Way

Around the World

Arthur Lyman - Lyman '66 & The Shadow of Your Smile

1. Lemon Tree
2. Taste of Honey
3. Fiddler on the Roof
4. Dear Heart
5. Only Yesterday
6. Medley from Mary Poppins
7. Kon Tiki
8. The (Jungle) Cat
9. The Boy from Laupahoehoe
10. Waimea Cowboy
11. Ports of Paradise
12. Bird Train
13. I'll Remember You
14. Zorba The Greek
15. Moon Over Naples (Spanish Eyes)
16. E Lei Ka Lei Lei (The Beach Party Song)
17. Sound of Music Medley
18. Marobi
19. Imua Kamehameha
20. Yesterday
21. The Shadow of Your Smile
22. Kamalani O Keaukaha
23. Hang on Sloopy

Lyman '66 & The Shadow of Your Smile

Mantovani & His Orchestra - Manhattan

1. Give My Regards to Broadway
2. Autumn in New York
3. The Bowery
4. Harlem Nocturne
5. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
6. Manhattan Serenade
7. Take The "A" Train
8. Manhattan Lullaby
9. Maria / Somewhere
10. I'm the Belle of New York
11. Tenement Symphony

Manhattan

The Art Mooney Big Band - Dance Time

1. Gloworm (Cha Cha)
2. Fascination (Waltz)
3. Rings on My Fingers (Charleston)
4. Shine on Harvest Moon
5. La Paloma (Tango)
6. Bee Dees Twist (Twist)
7. In the Shade of The Old Apple Tree (Cha Cha)
8. Fort Lee Line (Square Dance)
9. Nellie Blye (Foxtrot)
10. Clarinet Polka (Polka)

Dance Time

The Bandleader

(1911 - 1993)

Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra - Good Life Music - Love That Bert Kaempfert Vol. 12

1. Caravan
2. Lonely Is the Name
3. Again
4. Steppin' Pretty
5. I Should Care
6. Just As Much As Ever
7. The First Waltz
8. My Love for You
9. The Glory of Love
10. The Sheik of Araby
11. Every Time I Dream of You
12. Time to Leave
13. I Close My Eyes (And Dream of You)
14. Oh My Lonely Way
15. Welcome to My Heart
16. Ridin' Rainbows

Love That Kaempfert

Can you remember when you heard the Bert Kaempfert Sound for the very first time? Perhaps it was one of his early hits - Danke Schoen or Wonderland By Night? Suddenly you knew that the music had you spellbound: a melody trumpet which soared to dramatic heights... a rhythm and tempo which made you want to dance and listen at the same time. That's when you probably said: "Love that Bert Kaempfert" and so joined the throngs of his millions of fans. And perhaps you are among those for whom the present album LOVE THAT BERT KAEMPFERT from 1968 (which was, incidentally, Number 1 on Decca's "Top Selling Album List") opened the door to his music. If this is the case, then you are in for a very special treat, for the Kaempfert Sound has certainly lost nothing of its attraction and timelessness over the years.

Bert Kaempfert sought out well known songs for his recordings and virtually made them his own. Himself a writer of numerous hits, he always treated the original works of his composer colleagues with great respect: his arrangements left the basic melody unchanged while his special sound lent the work new luster.

A good example of this is offered by Duke Ellington's classical jazz composition Caravan from 1937 with its unforgettable melody. The exotic timbre, bass guitar played over a "fuzz box" and growl effects of the trumpet, all of which relate directly to Ellington's "jungle style," sent this Kaempfert single (Decca DL 32241) to the top of the US hit parade in 1968. Another classic, The Sheik Of Araby, was inspired by the silent movie "The Sheik" (1921) filmed with Rudolph Valentino, the romantic idol of the Twenties. In his recording Bert Kaempfert lends the oldie a modern tone coloring. Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston and Sammy Cahn combined their talents for the film musical "Thrill Of Romance" (1945) and came up with the song I Should Care, which was to become a best-seller for Frank Sinatra. Bert Kaempfert breathes new life into this old favorite just as he did with the solemn Again from the film "Roadhouse" (1948) which took its place in the repertory of such stars as Vic Damone, Doris Day, Mel Tormé and Tommy Dorsey, and with Billy Hill's The Glory Of Love from 1936 which achieved new popularity in 1967 thanks to the film "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" with Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier. Country music too is represented by one song which managed to get a foothold in the pop sector: Just As Much As Ever was a Top Forty hit for Bob Beckham.

Bert Kaempfert crowns this compilation with several original compositions: The First Waltz is a lively waltz which gives prominence to the brass; Manfred Moch's trumpet is heard to great effect in the delightful My Love For You and also in Steppin' Pretty - a work which is sure to get you swinging; Lonely Is The Name was an enormous success for Sammy Davis, Jr.

The five bonus tracks on this CD are also original compositions. Welcome To My Heart was a further hit for an unforgettable performer: Dean Martin. This number, On My Lonely Way and Ridin' Rainbows all emanate from the LP production MY WAY OF LIFE from 1968. Time To Leave and I Close My Eyes (And Dream Of You), recorded in 1969, are two treasures from the tape archive and previously unreleased world-wide.

(Bert Kaempfert Music, Hamburg)