“Are You Lonesome Tonight” by Elvis Presley was the number one single in the United States for six weeks. It dominated the pop chart from Thanksgiving of 1960 through the first week of 1961 but was ...

We are so far beyond the era when a German bandleader could hit #1 with a mellow jazz instrumental that it's almost shocking to believe it ever could've happened. But it did. Bert Kaempfert, a ...

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German big band leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger, Bert Kaempfert composed the music for a number of well-known songs, including “Strangers in the Night,” and “Moon Over Naples,” ...

ONE critic dismissed it as "moonlight and knickers" music, but the silken orchestrations of the late Bert Kaempfert won the popular vote with over 150 million record sales. Manchester-born trumpeter ...