Bert Kaempfert was a German orchestra leader,multi-instrumentalist,music producer,arranger,and composer. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs,including "Strangers in the Night",“Danke Schoen”and "Moon Over Naples".
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is a song originally written and recorded by Solomon Linda under the title "Mbube" for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939. Linda's original was written in Zulu,while the English version's lyrics were written by George David Weiss.
"Strangers in the Night" is a song composed by Bert Kaempfert with English lyrics by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder. Kaempfert originally used it under the title "Beddy Bye" as part of the instrumental score for the movie A Man Could Get Killed. The song was made famous in 1966 by Frank Sinatra.
"Mr. Sandman" is a popular song written by Pat Ballard and published in 1954. It was first recorded in May of that year by Vaughn Monroe &his orchestra and later that year by The Chordettes and the Four Aces. The song's lyrics convey a request to "Mr. Sandman" to "bring me a dream" –the traditional association of the folkloric figure. The pronoun used to refer to the desired dream is often changed depending on the sex of the singer or group performing the song,as the original sheet music publication,which includes male and female versions of the lyrics,intended.
The popular song "Moon Over Miami" was written in 1935 by songwriters Joe Burke and Edgar Leslie. The music was used in the 1941 film Moon Over Miami being played during the opening credits and also played as dance music at both parties.
"Mockin' Bird Hill" is a song written in 3/4 time by Calle Jularbo,with lyrics by George Vaughn Horton. It is perhaps best known through recordings by Patti Page,Horton's own Pinetoppers,and the duo of Les Paul and Mary Ford in 1951,or by Donna Fargo's 1977 version,but many other artists have also recorded the song.
"It's Magic" is a popular song written by Jule Styne,with lyrics by Sammy Cahn,published in 1947. They wrote the song for Doris Day in her Warner Brothers film debut,Romance on the High Seas. In the autumn of 1948 Vic Damone,Tony Martin,Dick Haymes,Gordon MacRae and Sarah Vaughan all charted on Billboard magazine charts with versions of the song,but none as successfully as Day's recording. "It's Magic" received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song,but in March 1949 lost to "Buttons and Bows" by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.
"Red Roses for a Blue Lady" is a 1948 popular song by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett. It has been recorded by a number of performers. Actor-singer John Laurenz (1909–1958) was the first to record the song for Mercury Records. It rose to #2 on the weekly “Your Hit Parade”radio survey in the spring of 1949. The original 78rpm single was issued on Mercury 5201 - Red Roses For A Blue Lady by John Laurenz.
"I'm Beginning to See the Light" is a popular song and jazz standard,with music written by Duke Ellington,Johnny Hodges,and Harry James and lyrics by Don George and published in 1944.
"The Things We Did Last Summer" is a popular song about nostalgia from 1946. The words were written by Sammy Cahn,with the composition by Jule Styne. The most well known version is the 1946 Top ten hit by Jo Stafford. Versions by Frank Sinatra and by Vaughn Monroe also charted that year. Shelley Fabares had a hit cover in 1962 on the pop chart. Several recordings have been made,including versions by Frank Sinatra,Vaughn Monroe,and Dean Martin who recorded different versions for his 1959 and 1966 Christmas LPs.
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"That Happy Feeling" is an instrumental pop music composed by Ghanaian musician Guy Warren in 1956 under the original title "An African's Prayer ",and recorded as a single by Bert Kaempfert.
"Tom Hark" is an instrumental South African kwela song from the 1950s,believed to have been composed by Jack Lerole. The song was arranged for penny whistle and first recorded by Elias and His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes –a South African band formed by pennywhistlers Jack and his brother Elias Lerole –and released in 1956. It was later released in the United Kingdom after it was used as a theme on a television series,and it reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart in 1958.
"Moon Over Naples" is a 1965 instrumental composed and recorded by German bandleader Bert Kaempfert. The instrumental version reached No. 6 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. It won a BMI Award in 1968.
"Java" is an instrumental adaptation from a 1958 LP of piano compositions,The Wild Sounds of New Orleans,by Tousan,also known as New Orleans producer/songwriter Allen Toussaint. As was the case of the rest of Toussaint's LP,"Java" was composed in studio,primarily by Toussaint.
Born Free is the twentieth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released on April 10,1967,by Columbia Records and includes half a dozen songs associated with movies or musicals. Two of these tracks,however,originated in the scores of the films indicated on the album jacket but had lyrics added later:the melody for "Strangers in the Night" was written for A Man Could Get Killed,and "Somewhere My Love" began as "Lara's Theme" from Doctor Zhivago.
Those Were the Days is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on November 6,1968,by Columbia Records. It followed the formula of including covers of recent hit songs,the oldest,in this case,being "The End of the World",which hadn't been on the charts since 1963. Two of the 10 tracks,however,had not been released as singles by other artists:"Every Time I Dream of You",which had appeared as an instrumental on Bert Kaempfert's 1967 album Love That Bert Kaempfert,and "You Make Me Think About You",which was first heard in the 1968 film With Six You Get Eggroll.
Johnny Mathis Sings the Music of Bacharach &Kaempfert is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in the fall of 1970 by Columbia Records. While one half of the two-record set was a compilation of tracks from his previous albums that were composed by Burt Bacharach,the other consisted of new recordings of songs composed by Bert Kaempfert,including a new version of "Strangers in the Night",which Mathis had already recorded in 1966 for his LP Johnny Mathis Sings. Although the Kaempfert tribute was similar to recent Mathis albums in that he was mainly covering songs made popular by other singers,it was absent of hits from the 12 months previous to its release that had become the pattern of his output at this point. The latest US chartings of any of the Kaempfert compositions as of this album's debut came from 1967 recordings of "Lady" by Jack Jones and "The Lady Smiles" by Matt Monro.
B Sides and Rarities is a compilation album by the American pop singer Andy Williams that was released by Collectables Records on May 27,2003. Although the collection starts with two 1947 recordings by Kay Thompson and The Williams Brothers,the rest of the material comes from his time at Columbia Records and includes covers of contemporary hits as well as lesser-known material from the songwriters of "Can't Get Used to Losing You","Home Lovin' Man" and "Moon River".
Happy Journey is a studio album by American country singer–songwriter Hank Locklin. It was released in January 1962 via RCA Victor Records and was produced by Chet Atkins. Happy Journey was Locklin's third studio album released in his recording career. It contained a total of 12 tracks,three of which were hits on the country chart:"You're the Reason," "Happy Birthday to Me" and the title track. It included a combination of new recordings and cover versions of songs previously recorded by other artists.
