Bert Kaempfert Live Videos

[JSngry]

Medley (1967) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdcMYRhUeA...ature=rec-HM-rn

That Happy Feeling

Medley (with jazz) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOf4uNwvC6c

A Swinging Safari (with more jazz) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4YyJUc54Y

Edited October 25, 2009 by JSngry

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Yes.

But it was interesting that the flugelhorn player played two completely different solos on the different performances of "Swingin' safari".

The trouble with people like that is, some of them are pretty good, really

But I did love the massed handclaps of the vocal group.

Oh and the later vocal group, with the men all in white, getting ready for a cricket match, no doubt.

MG

[JSngry]

But it was interesting that the flugelhorn player played two completely different solos on the different performances of "Swingin' safari".

The trouble with people like that is, some of them are pretty good, really

Oh yeah, absolutely. That guy's charts sounded a lot simpler to play than they would be in terms of balance, blend, etc. No slouches allowed. And a lot of it had an underlying swing that people who couldn't swing just couldn't come up with. Great music and great musicianship only sometimes coincide.

I'm just tripped out by the staging...

[Dave James]

Something of an easy listening / lounge pioneer, Kaempfert also had some marginal involvement with The Beatles when they were in Hamburg. As Walt Disney says, "it's a small world after all." I think his biggest hit was Wonderland By Night.

Up over and out.

[Free For All]

Swingin' Safari will always be the Match Game theme to me.

Love that Fender bass with the pick! Makes me think of the soundtracks for those 60s Don Knotts movies.

[JSngry]

Bye Bye Blues (studio) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knjk6dHQyzQ

There's a certain...balance of ingredients to this that I find, if not exactly admirable, at least noteworthy.