Gold Singles

1959 Die Gitarre und das Meer with Freddy Quinn (Polydor, Germany)

1960 Morgen with Ivo Robic (Polydor, Germany)

1961 Wonderland By Night (Decca/USA)

Gold Albums

1966 A Swingin’ Safari (Polydor, Germany)

1969 Wonderland By Night (Decca, USA)

1969 Blue Midnight (Decca, USA)

1969 Double Gold for Greatest Hits by RIAA* (Decca, USA)

1971 Double Gold Disc Award for 50.000 Bert Kaempfert albums (Polydor, South Afrika)

1971 A Swingin’ Safari (Polydor, Germany)

1971 Gold for 1 million Bert Kaempfert albums (Polydor, Germany)

*(Recording Industry Association of America)

In 1968 Bert Kaempfert received a total of five BMI Awards for his compositions Lady, Spanish Eyes, Sweet Maria, Strangers In The Night and The World We Knew. On September 16, 2003, Bert Kaempfert was awarded the 5th Award posthumously for the song Spanish Eyes.

BMI Song Awards

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:

7 Awards for Strangers In The Night
1 Award for Strangers In The Night
(Most Performed Song in the BMI Repertoire 1966)
5 Awards for Spanish Eyes
3 Awards for The World We Knew (Over And Over)
3 Awards for Danke Schoen
1 Award for Lady
1 Award for Sweet Maria
1 Award for L.O.V.E.

FURTHER AWARDS

1961 BAND OF THE FUTURE,
“Cash Box” (Music trade journal, USA)

1965 ESTRELLA DE ORO, for the most
successful composition in 1964, Venezuela

1965 Auszeichnung for
LP “Living It Up”, Argentina

1966 GOLDEN GLOBE für Strangers In
The Night, best theme tune of the year, USA

1975 GOLDENER NOTENSCHLÜSSEL, (Golden
Clef), Germany (More information here)

1978 Award for instrumental
Footprints In The Sand, Argentina

1980 Two GOLDENE EUROPA (Golden Europe) awards
for Strangers In The Night and Spanish Eyes, Germany

AWARDS – POSTUM

1984 GOLDENE STIMMGABEL
(Golden Tuning Fork), Germany

1993 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
from BMI, USA

1993 „Songwriters Hall Of Fame”, USA.
Bert 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 “Songwriters Hall Of Fame”. (Click here for more information: www.songwritershalloffame.org)

2003 GOLDEN GRAMMOPHONE, Germany
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Polydor Island Group.