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Re-Releases
Bert
Kaempfert & His Orchestra
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Portugal Fado, Wine & Sunshine (1958)
CD # 272 249-4
Combo Capers (1960)
CD # 273 421-8
Dancing In Wonderland (1961)
CD # 273 624-3
Wonderland By Night (1961)
CD # 273 383-8
With A Sound In My Heart (1962)
CD # 273 417-5
A Swingin’ Safari (1962)
CD # 273 639-9
Living It Up (1963)
CD # 273 466-5
Dreaming In Wonderland (1963)
CD # 273 553-0
Blue Midnight (1964)
CD # 273 665-0
That Latin Feeling (1964)
CD # 273 569-1
Love Letters (1965)
CD # 273 659-1
The Magic Music Of Far Away Places (1965)
CD # 273 568-5
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October 2009
BYE
BYE BLUES
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
(Re-Release)
Polydor # 272 249-4
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Recorded 1965 at Studio Rahlstedt, Hamburg. The album originally released 1966 in Europe as BYE BYE BLUES (184046).
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STRANGERS
IN THE NIGHT
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
(Re-Release)
Polydor # 272 248-5
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Recorded 1965 at Studio Rahlstedt, Hamburg. The Polydor album originally released 1966 in Europe as STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT (184053).
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„Strangers
in the Night -
The Bert Kaempfert Story”
Documentary of Marc Boettcher
NDR, August 13, 2009, 11.15 p.m.
The documentary film “Strangers In The Night - The Bert Kaempfert Story” of Marc Boettcher will be shown on German NDR television at 11.15 p.m. on Thursday, August 13, 2009.
In
memoriam ROLF AHRENS
On 19 March 2009 Bert Kaempfert’s long-time friend and associate passed away at the age of eighty-six.
The first time Rolf Ahrens and Bert Kaempfert’s paths met came at the end of World War II, when they played at, amongst other venues, the Tarantella Bar in Hamburg’s Hotel Esplanade. Very soon their relationship developed beyond a purely professional collaboration and the two musicians became close friends.
Rolf was present on drums not only when Bert Kaempfert made his first orchestral recordings in the fifties but also at all the recording sessions and live appearances that took place up until 1980. And it was Rolf’s very own style of drumming that contributed in no small way to the typical Kaempfert sound.
„When
my father died in 1980, Rolf withdrew from active life as a musician. ‘If
he’s no longer playing, then I don’t want to, either,’ he said,
and put his drum set up for sale. Even so, the friendship between Rolf, his family
and myself remained and, when we met, he would talk at length in his inimitably
humorous way about the early days together after the war. And so it was only
natural that he and his wife should play a valuable part in Marc Boettcher’s
biography of Bert Kaempfert. I look back on these times with gratitude, for Rolf
was always there to support me in both word and deed. I shall cherish his memory
and in the coming weeks post on our website an account of Rolf Ahrens’ multifaceted
life.”
Doris Kaempfert
