Events, Updates, New Releases
Let’s Go Bowling –
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
Re-Release: December 16, 2011
Polydor # 278 648-2
This CD release is sure to get the hearts of all Bert Kaempfert fans and collectors beating faster. First brought out on vinyl by Polydor in 1964, this album is a coupling featuring Kaempfert’s early recordings made between 1959 and 1964, four tracks of which have never before appeared on CD in Germany.
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Ladi Geisler (27.11.1927 – 19.11.2011)
Ladi Geisler performed alongside international stars and brought his considerable skills to bear as a studio musician at productions beyond number. He made his career as a soloist, was the recipient of many an award and gave of his time to several institutions. And, above all, it was his unforgettable “Knack-Bass”, that percussive bass sound, which played such a significant role in characterizing the Bert Kaempfert sound.
Until his passing, Ladi enjoyed life both offstage as well as onstage with his guitar – making music was, without a doubt, his very lifeblood!
Now and Forever –
Secara meets Kaempfert
Release: 24. Juni 2011
Silver Spot # 1036001SSR
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As a connoisseur of Bert Kaempfert’s musical world, Marc Secara has chosen not to sing any of the maestro’s hits. Instead, this CD features songs from Kaempfert’s repertoire that are less well-known or to date have been heard “only” as instrumental versions.
The music has been so arranged as to lend it a rich and luxurious quality. Accompanied by a large band Secara swings and croons his way through twelve Kaempfert’s songs, songs that will rapidly become new evergreens.
Re-Releases
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
Release: April 1, 2011
Free and Easy (1970)
CD # 276 125-2
The Kaempfert Touch (1970)
CD # 276 420-3
Orange Colored Sky (1971)
CD # 276 229-8
6 Plus 6 (1972)
CD # 276 126-1
Yesterday and Today (1973)
CD # 276 416-7
Now and Forever – Secara meets Kaempfert
October 15, 2010, 8.00 p.m.
Theater Kehrwieder
Speicherstadt Hamburg
Friday, 15 October, sees Marc Secara together with orchestra and guest star Pe Werner celebrating the opening night of his stage show. In honour of Bert Kaempfert. In the city where on 16 October the composer was born, and in remembrance of his death thirty years ago. Not only has Kaempfert’s music survived the intervening decades but, thirty years after his passing, he is still providing new hits! Marc Secara presents well-known compositions from Kaempfert’s songbook as well as “hidden treasures in new guise”.
Discover and enjoy the music of a masterly production that started out from a dream…
For more information: www.now-and-forever.info
Bert Kaempfert
Vinyl-Single-Selection (1958–1969)
Polydor # 272 819-9
Release: September 17, 2010
Contained in this Box of high quality finish are Bert Kaempfert and his Orchestra’s most successful 20 singles released on the Polydor label between 1958 and 1969.
Mitternachts-Blues, Ducky, Patricia or Catalania being earworms in those days and Afrikaan Beat, Danke Schoen, Blue Midnight, L.O.V.E., Moon Over Naples (Spanisch Eyes), Strangers In The Night or Wonderland By Night stormed the international charts as singles.
For vinyl collectors and lovers of this orchestral music a long-held wish has now doubtless come true!
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Re-Releases
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
Release Date: 15.10.2010
Hold Me (1967)
CD # 274 633-7
The World We Knew (1967)
CD # 274 633-6
Love That Bert Kaempfert (1968)
CD # 274 633-5
My Way Of Life (1968)
CD # 274 633-9