Search - Bert Kaempfert :: One Lonely Night 8

One of Bert's top 5...

01/10/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"1968 was a tumultuous year. War, riots, protests, and assasinations. Upheaval every place you looked. This album, recorded in November of '68, shows the opposite extreme of the human condition. In one hand we had discord, strife, and conflict, in the other, demonstrated in Studio Hamburg where this was recorded, both man and woman alike came together to make an incredible, beautiful sound. This record, made toward the end of Bert's romantic period, demonstrated that harmony could indeed be acheived. Released in the US and Canada as "Warm And Wonderful", it was the first BK album to feature woodwind player Herb Geller, here playing the alto and bass flute. Herb, from LA, played with the Maynard Ferguson band (please correct me if I'm wrong). A great compliment to Manfred Moch, Bert's long-time trumpet soloist. Fred is in fine form on this disk as well. Seven of the eleven tunes on the original LP are Kaempfert/Rehbein originals, the last track, 'Our Street Of Love' alone is worth the price of this CD. I don't think in pop music history, a group of human beings made as wonderful a sound as the last note of that song. This disc has 5 bonus tracks, three from Bert's next LP, "Traces" and two unreleased songs. 5 stars? Not nearly enough"

No fred, still great

07/01/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I've been a BK fan for more than 30 of my nearly 46 years. I listen to anything good and interesting, but it's BK's 1965 to 1974 period that rocks my world. The guy, and it had to be a European, pulled all that swung, slinked and serenaded within American 20th Century music, shaped it into irresistable 3 minute sermonettes, and stamped it authentic. Wow. I enjoy his evolution as an artist. Other AOL reviewers correctly observe that his 50s stuff was as stale as uncovered oyster crackers, then comes "Bye Bye Blues" and it's hello Bert. I take all the AOL reviews with a grain of salt (how many times have I seen "greatest recording ever" attached to a review???), but let me steer any serious musicologist to BK's double CD, "Hold Me"/"The World We Knew." You will wear your player out. As far as "One Lonely Night," superb late 60s form, lots of original BK, and a tip of the BK hat to interesting U.S. pop (H. Alpert's "This Guy..."). But the Orlando reviewer puts BK mainstay Fred Moch on this album and, according to the liner notes, Werner Gutterer is on trumpet and he's fine. I'm out."