RetroTrash

BERT KAEMPFERT




NOTES ON THE ABOVE
Bert Kaempfert was born in Germany in 1923 and followed in the footsteps of Ray Conniff and Percy Faith who had already made their mark in the recording industry. During Bert's fifteen year stint with Decca in England he helped to launch the Beatles career but put them under a pseudonym as he was not impressed with their input! Deciding to concentrate on his orchestra and musical performances, Bert went on to produce over 30 albums for Decca between 1959 and 1973. Rarely giving live performances, most of his work was studio bound. He also wrote songs, two of which ("Spanish Eyes" and "Strangers in the Night") became his most known and successful. His "Swingin' Safari", another tune for which he was also famous, became a staple diet of supermarket background music and summer vacations. He died in Spain in 1980. Not all of his albums had girls on the covers, although this did become a general rule, especially for sales outside his homeland. There are some that feature the maestro on the cover, and there are many more like the above doing the rounds in the second-hand shops as his music has now generally fallen out of favour. More of his prodigious output will be added to the above shortly as there are still plenty to collect. It's quite surprising how many keep turning up cheap. Obviously, Bert just doesn't kick it with today's kids. I wonder why? By the by, the Softly album is a boxset. I've included it here rather than in the Boxsets section as it contains plain sleeves and no pretty pictures of more girls. To view larger images use the Database
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