Bert Kaempfert - Bert Kaempfert's Greatest Hits

I have my answer of who Bert Kaempfert was: He's an orchestra leader and composer of, basically, elevator music. Granted, it's really well-done elevator music, but I still have kind of a hard time getting excited about it.



Bert Kaempfert - Bert Kaempfert's Greatest Hits
Decca Records, 1966

1. Wonderland By Night
2. Afrikaan Beat
3. Red Roses For A Blue Lady
4. Spanish Eyes (Moon Over Naples)
5. L-O-V-E
6. Magic Trumpet
7. Danke Schoen
8. Strangers In The Night
9. Bye Bye Blues
10. That Happy Feeling*
11. Wiederseh'n
12. A Swingin' Safari

* Somehow I managed to either not record the last three tracks or to lose them in editing. Either way, I'm not going back for them.

Super Oldies, Vol. 6

I love "Fever." The song is smokin' hot, even without what I assume to be Peggy Lee sprawled across the cover (the legs in back are the best part). The album started to get into some of the songs I remember hearing (at the time I thought being tortured with) as a kid. I can still hear my dad singing "Duke of Earl" while woodworking in the garage or cooking up something in the kitchen (no recipes allowed).


Super Oldies, Vol. 6
Capitol Records, 196?

Click on a song title to hear a 30-second sample.

Record One, Side One:
1. Be Bop A Lula, Gene Vincent
2. C'mon & Swim, Bobby Freeman
3. Burning Bridges, Jack Scott
4. In My Room, The Beach Boys
5. Suspicion, Terry Stafford

Record One, Side Two:
1. Fever, Peggy Lee
2. Route 66 Theme, Nelson Riddle
3. You're My World, Cilla Black
4. Young Love, Sonny James
5. I Go To Pieces, Peter & Gordon

Record Two, Side Three:
1. For Your Love, Ed Townsend
2. You Send Me, Sam Cooke
3. Nadine, Chuck Berry
4. Willie & The Hand Jive, Johnny Otis Show
5. Duke Of Earl, Gene Chandler

Record Two, Side Four:
1. Wings Of A Dove, Ferlin Husky
2. Laugh Laugh, Beau Brummels
3. Let The Little Girl Dance, Billy Bland
4. Tragedy, Thomas Wayne / De Lons
5. All American Boy, Bill Parsons

Elvis - That's The Way It Is

This is the first of what will hopefully be hundreds of posts. Over the next year or 24, I plan to digitize my dad's record collection. I would say it would have been nice to do this while he was still alive, but there's no way the Old Guy would have let me touch his record player if were still around.

Flipping through the first batch (which was just the first twenty or so I could carry), there's a lot I don't recognize (I'm sure Wikipedia could tell me who Bert Kaempfert is, but that's a story for another day), but I decided to start with something familiar. You can't go wrong with the King.

Elvis - The Way It Is
RCA Records, 1970
Side 1:
1) I Just Can't Help Believin'
2) Twenty Days And Twenty Nights
3) How The Web Was Woven
4) Patch It Up
5) Mary In The Morning
6) You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

Side 2:
1) You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
2) I've Lost You
3) Just Pretend
4) Stranger In The Crowd
5) The Next Step Is Love
6) Bridge Over Troubled Waters