Great Video and great track :D May I ask where the image in the last few seconds of the man and woman are in the galaxy looking up? Very nice picture, where I can I see it?
You have done a marvelous job on your ANDRE! KOSTELANETZ!! Presentations. Absolutely superb.
Let us add that Claus Ogerman did the arrangement of "Sweet Surrender" for Maestro KOSTELANETZ!! and His Producer, Teo Macero.
Kosty had a fleet of arrangers during the 1960s and '70s, The Golden Age of BeautifulMusic in Glorious, LifeLike (((STEREO))) Sound for MAXIMUM Listening Pleasure.
KOSTELANETZ!! was The Admiral of The Fleet; Teo Macero was His Vice-Admiral, so to speak.
Listening to Yuji Ohno's Manhattan Serenade led me to AK's version of it which led me back to you and this AK tune, once agai, Walter, simply beautiful! Played my AK 'Ultimate Collection' at work today & the girl who 'doesn't care much about music' LOVED all the film & broadway themes !!! I told her she has a kind man in Antwerpen to thank! I thank you as well! chuck ( even my mate, a classical fan, is humming along to this right now!)
@chkjns The man in Antwerpen sends warm regards to 'Chuck and his mates' 'on the other side of the ocean' and confirms that there's more "AK" to come :-) Please make sure to inform "the girl who doesn't care much about music" ;-)) !!
@Socratess2007 This is the epitome of the sound I love in symphonic pop! Almost hard to fathom that AK took Bread's soft rock ballad for teenagers and transformed it into a work of exquisite beauty for their grandparents! Most musicians are targeted toward a specific age group. I'm reminded of the great 1960s arranger Perry Botkin, Jr, who was simultaneously scoring music for three generations of people from 18-80. Can't think of another person writing for that broad an age difference. You?
@chkjns Not really but I think that, if you would have asked Bert Kaempfert for "which" audience or age group he wrote his music, guess the answer would have been : "for all".......And maybe James Last didn't "write" much music himself (well, depends on how you define the word "much" ;-) but I do know that there are many young and even very young fans in his fanclub......
@Socratess2007 I agree that the two gents mentioned would 'hope' to write/score for all, but their success came from mature listeners more than the odd man (youth) out like myself who knew how to appreciate such orchestrations. Mr Botkin was solidly & simutaneously succeeding in reaching 3 generations of listeners all at the same time period, scoring for the Cascades & T-bones almost at the same time he created his Hollyridge Strings arrangements.
@chkjns Guess I must be "an odd man out" then as well, as I have been a Kaempfert fan "all my life" :-) That's of course, from my teenager years onwards (guess I must have been around 15 or 16 when I bought my first BK album .......) I remember that my mother (!!!) used to say : "are you listening again to that dull Bert Kaempfert?" When are you going to play some "real music" ??!!? I also remember that I then kind of 'stared' at her, and it wasn't in a friendly way ;-)) !!
@Socratess2007 My mum listened to BK & all the others like him. What 'real music' did your mom prefer? We were not much of a music-buying family, but I know I was listening to & loving BK music when I was 11 in 1968! We had a radio that played through the entire house with a speaker in each room. The music was blissfully inescapable!
@chkjns No idea what she preferred...... actually my family wasn't that music-minded either ..... and there was only one radioset as far as I can remember..... (and it wasn't "on" most of the time..:-) At the time, I considered "headphones" to be the "greatest invention of all time" ;-)) I often used them to "escape" from day-to-day worries and actually ...life hasn't changed THAT much .... (the only difference being that nowadays my wife tells me I put them on so I can't hear what she says ;-)
Magnífico! Envolvente! KOSTELANETZZZZZZZZZZ!
manusundays 2 months ago
Forgot how nice this tune is, thanks for posting it. Need to hear more.
natureboy101161 3 months ago
Great Video and great track :D May I ask where the image in the last few seconds of the man and woman are in the galaxy looking up? Very nice picture, where I can I see it?
CosmicArdency 10 months ago
You have done a marvelous job on your ANDRE! KOSTELANETZ!! Presentations. Absolutely superb.
Let us add that Claus Ogerman did the arrangement of "Sweet Surrender" for Maestro KOSTELANETZ!! and His Producer, Teo Macero.
Kosty had a fleet of arrangers during the 1960s and '70s, The Golden Age of BeautifulMusic in Glorious, LifeLike (((STEREO))) Sound for MAXIMUM Listening Pleasure.
KOSTELANETZ!! was The Admiral of The Fleet; Teo Macero was His Vice-Admiral, so to speak.
RBQuady 1 year ago
@RBQuady Thank you for your nice compliment and for the additional (interesting!) information :-)
Socratess2007 1 year ago
Listening to Yuji Ohno's Manhattan Serenade led me to AK's version of it which led me back to you and this AK tune, once agai, Walter, simply beautiful! Played my AK 'Ultimate Collection' at work today & the girl who 'doesn't care much about music' LOVED all the film & broadway themes !!! I told her she has a kind man in Antwerpen to thank! I thank you as well! chuck ( even my mate, a classical fan, is humming along to this right now!)
chkjns 1 year ago
@chkjns The man in Antwerpen sends warm regards to 'Chuck and his mates' 'on the other side of the ocean' and confirms that there's more "AK" to come :-) Please make sure to inform "the girl who doesn't care much about music" ;-)) !!
Socratess2007 1 year ago
@Socratess2007 This is the epitome of the sound I love in symphonic pop! Almost hard to fathom that AK took Bread's soft rock ballad for teenagers and transformed it into a work of exquisite beauty for their grandparents! Most musicians are targeted toward a specific age group. I'm reminded of the great 1960s arranger Perry Botkin, Jr, who was simultaneously scoring music for three generations of people from 18-80. Can't think of another person writing for that broad an age difference. You?
chkjns 1 year ago
@chkjns Not really but I think that, if you would have asked Bert Kaempfert for "which" audience or age group he wrote his music, guess the answer would have been : "for all".......And maybe James Last didn't "write" much music himself (well, depends on how you define the word "much" ;-) but I do know that there are many young and even very young fans in his fanclub......
Socratess2007 1 year ago
@Socratess2007 I agree that the two gents mentioned would 'hope' to write/score for all, but their success came from mature listeners more than the odd man (youth) out like myself who knew how to appreciate such orchestrations. Mr Botkin was solidly & simutaneously succeeding in reaching 3 generations of listeners all at the same time period, scoring for the Cascades & T-bones almost at the same time he created his Hollyridge Strings arrangements.
chkjns 1 year ago
@chkjns Guess I must be "an odd man out" then as well, as I have been a Kaempfert fan "all my life" :-) That's of course, from my teenager years onwards (guess I must have been around 15 or 16 when I bought my first BK album .......) I remember that my mother (!!!) used to say : "are you listening again to that dull Bert Kaempfert?" When are you going to play some "real music" ??!!? I also remember that I then kind of 'stared' at her, and it wasn't in a friendly way ;-)) !!
Socratess2007 1 year ago
@Socratess2007 My mum listened to BK & all the others like him. What 'real music' did your mom prefer? We were not much of a music-buying family, but I know I was listening to & loving BK music when I was 11 in 1968! We had a radio that played through the entire house with a speaker in each room. The music was blissfully inescapable!
chkjns 1 year ago
@chkjns No idea what she preferred...... actually my family wasn't that music-minded either ..... and there was only one radioset as far as I can remember..... (and it wasn't "on" most of the time..:-) At the time, I considered "headphones" to be the "greatest invention of all time" ;-)) I often used them to "escape" from day-to-day worries and actually ...life hasn't changed THAT much .... (the only difference being that nowadays my wife tells me I put them on so I can't hear what she says ;-)
Socratess2007 1 year ago
wow..so nice to find this here! I always loved this instrumental. also loved his version of "living together growing together". what a talent!!
Jimbo8137 1 year ago
Very, very nice.
HIBBO32 1 year ago
@HIBBO32 Thanks Kevin :-))
Socratess2007 1 year ago