In November 1979 Bert Kaempfert and his 40-strong orchestra went on tour together with the Botho Lucas Choir, performing for the first time in Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland before packed audiences at fourteen different venues and featuring soloists Ack van Rooyen on trumpet, Jiggs Whigham on trombone and Swedish jazz singer Sylvia Vrethammar.

This tour had been preceded by a concert given on 20 June in Neu-Isenburg's Hugenottenhalle, which Hessen Radio happened to record for television, thus making it possible, ten years later, to transfer this now historic recording on to video disc. Requiring complex digital audio-master processing, the task was carried out in London's Mayfair Studios by John Hudson, one of the world's leading sound engineers. In April 1991 the video disc was replaced by a video cassette.

We are very pleased that “the concert event of the year”, as it was described in the press at that time, is now available on DVD.

The Concert / Tracks:

1. INTRO: STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT

2. MEDLEY:

       AFRIKAAN BEAT

       A SWINGIN' SAFARI

       RED ROSES FOR A BLUE LADY

       THREE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING

3. CHANSON D’AMOUR

4. SOMETHING

5. L.O.V.E.
    Sylvia Vrethammar (vocal)

6. SPANISH EYES
    Sylvia Vrethammar (vocal)

7. REMEMBER WHEN
    Sylvia Vrethammar (vocal)

8. APPLE HONEY

9. THE WAY WE WERE

10. TUXEDO JUNCTION

11. A SONG FOR LOVERS

12. SWEET CAROLINE

13. YOU TURNED MY WORLD AROUND
     Sylvia Vrethammar (vocal)

14. STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
     Sylvia Vrethammar (vocal)

15. JUMPING AT THE WOODSIDE

16. DANKE SCHOEN
     Sylvia Vrethammar (vocal)

Recorded on 20th June 1979 at Hugenottenhalle in Neu-Isenburg.

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DISCOGRAPHY

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