{"id":7409,"date":"2012-07-20T22:52:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/awards\/"},"modified":"2014-10-17T12:43:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T10:43:03","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/biography\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Gold Singles<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1959<\/strong> Die Gitarre und das Meer mit Freddy Quinn (Polydor, Germany)<br \/>\n<strong>1960<\/strong> Morgen mit Ivo Robic (Polydor, Germany)<br \/>\n<strong>1961<\/strong> Wonderland By Night (Decca\/USA)<\/p>\n<h3>Gold Albums<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1966<\/strong> A Swingin\u2019 Safari (Polydor, Germany)<br \/>\n<strong>1969<\/strong> Wonderland By Night (Decca, USA)<br \/>\n<strong>1969<\/strong> Blue Midnight (Decca, USA)<br \/>\n<strong>1969<\/strong> Double Gold f\u00fcr Greatest Hits von RIAA* (Decca, USA)<br \/>\n<strong>1971<\/strong> Double Gold Disc Award f\u00fcr 50.000 Bert-Kaempfert-LPs (Polydor, South Afrika)<br \/>\n<strong>1971<\/strong> A Swingin\u2019 Safari (Polydor, Germany)<br \/>\n<strong>1971<\/strong> Gold f\u00fcr 1 Million Bert-Kaempfert-LPs (Polydor, Germany)<\/p>\n<p>*(Recording Industry Association of America)<\/p>\n<p>In 1968 Bert Kaempfert received a total of five BMI Awards for his compositions <em>Lady<\/em>, <em>Spanish Eyes<\/em>, <em>Sweet Maria<\/em>, <em>Strangers In The Night<\/em> and <em>The World We Knew<\/em>.<br \/>\nOn September 16, 2003, Bert Kaempfert was awarded the 5th Award posthumously for the song Spanish Eyes.<\/p>\n<h3>BMI Song Awards<\/h3>\n<p>The American copyright organization BMI annually presents the BMI Award at the famous BMI dinner, each for 1 million radio and TV performances. In the period from 1966 to 2003 Bert Kaempfert received:<\/p>\n<p>7 Awards for Strangers In The Night<br \/>\n1 Award for Strangers In The Night<br \/>\n(Most Performed Song in the BMI Repertoire 1966)<br \/>\n5 Awards for\tSpanish Eyes<br \/>\n3 Awards for\tThe World We Knew (Over And Over)<br \/>\n3 Awards for\tDanke Schoen<br \/>\n1 Award for\tLady<br \/>\n1 Award for\tSweet Maria<br \/>\n1 Award for\tL.O.V.E.<\/p>\n<h3>FURTHER AWARDS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1961<\/strong> BAND OF THE FUTURE,<br \/>\n\u201eCash Box\u201d (Musikfachzeitschrift, USA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1965<\/strong> ESTRELLA DE ORO, for the most<br \/>\nsuccessful composition in 1964, Venezuela<\/p>\n<p><strong>1965<\/strong> Award for<br \/>\nLP \u201cLiving It Up\u201d, Argentina<\/p>\n<p><strong>1966<\/strong> GOLDEN GLOBE for Strangers In<br \/>\nThe Night, best theme tune of the year, USA<\/p>\n<p><strong>1975<\/strong> GOLDENER NOTENSCHL\u00dcSSEL, (Golden<br \/>\nClef), Germany<\/p>\n<p><strong>1978<\/strong> Award for instrumental<br \/>\nFootprints In The Sand, Argentina<\/p>\n<p><strong>1980<\/strong> Two GOLDENE EUROPA (Golden Europe) awards<br \/>\nfor Strangers In The Night and Spanish Eyes, Germany<\/p>\n<h3>Auszeichnungen \u2013 Postum<\/h3>\n<p><strong>1984<\/strong> GOLDENE STIMMGABEL<br \/>\n(Golden Tuning Fork), Germany<\/p>\n<p><strong>1993<\/strong> LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD<br \/>\nfrom BMI, USA<\/p>\n<p><strong>1993<\/strong> \u201eSongwriters Hall Of Fame\u201d, USA.<br \/>\nBert Kaempfert was the first German to receive probably the most significant international award that can be granted to a composer: he became post mortem a member of \u201cSongwriters Hall Of Fame\u201d. (Click here for more information: www.songwritershalloffame.org)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2003<\/strong> GOLDEN GRAMMOPHONE, Germany<br \/>\nLifetime Achievement Award from the Polydor Island Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bert Kaempfert has received numerous awards for his outstanding international successes as a composer, band leader, producer and arranger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9118,"parent":7410,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"biography-sub-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7409","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7409"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9145,"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7409\/revisions\/9145"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaempfert.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}