Bert Kaempfert A Swingin' Safari

[16tenterden]

Bought this LP back in the 60s & just purchased the CD re issue. Used to play Bert Kaempfert music in the Cinemas during the swinging 60s. Love all his work.

[MrWatercolorguy]

@randalleful; It sure was the original Match Game Theme; that's where I first heard it.

[gazmanc1]

I remember dad playing this in the car on his 8 track when we was kids. I love it. Thank you for posting and bringing back great childhood memories. :)

[randalleful]

Does anyone remeber this as the theme song to the original Match Game? Because it was. Thanks!!

[antioxidantsguide]

My parents had this LP in the 1960's..and I played it to death!! Love this music, I can't tire of it, and it has a sort of Euro-pop sound to it..if there's such a thing.

[JimmyConway60]

wow! brings back memories of my mom and dad in the 60's and 70's...the big console stereo...poker games on saturday nights...harness horse racing from long island...big chryslers, buicks, oldsmobiles and cadillacs...and people had class!!!

[Scott24KR]

@JimmyConway60 That was the America that we knew and loved and so wish we could have back again.

[8204728]

ah, Bert Kaempfert. The house was often filled with his music. Great childhood memories !

[laura1215armonizando]

MARAVILLOSO!!!!!!!!!!!

[adhes51]

Best music.

[arlette810]

wondeful track. how and where to get the complete safari 's disk ? can anyone help me ?

[encrypter46]

@arlette810 Just get his "Greatest Hits" album. If you like this, you'll love that!!! It should be easily found on Amazon.

[tim2345tu]

so cool bert

[voltape]

wOW These memories! By the way, does anyone know who is the cute girl in the record? I fell in love with her seeing her every time I played this record, that is, every day!

[hichrissie]

isnt this just this lovely

[kingbushwickthe33rd]

More Cowbell!!

[GooglFascists]

Kaempfert called his signature bass guitar sound the "Crack Bass".

You could always tell one of his numbers by it.

Good stuff eh? Remember it well.

The 2 instrumental masters of the late 1950's and 60's were

Bert Kaempfert and Billy Vaughn.

Sure wish we had music like this now- it all sounds the same=

BORING.

[blackandtanful]

ﾑｰﾄﾞ･ﾐｭｰｼﾞｯｸと言えども、６０年代、ﾍﾞﾙﾄ･ｹﾝ­ﾌﾟﾌｪﾙﾄは別格、ﾄﾗﾝﾍﾟｯﾄ使いの名手､粋でご機嫌"ｽ­ｳｨﾝｷﾞﾝ･ｻﾌｧﾘ"(#^.^#)

[ediseguro01]

Gracial amigo boswell69 por subirnos esta cancionota que no te alcanzas a imaginar cuanto es lo que regresa en el gratisimo pasado. Què bellas orquestaciones las del maestro Kaempfert. Es la Musica inolvidable que marcò una linda època!

[LesterJGoldtop]

Cool! In Stereo, even!

[SniperRick70]

I used to hear his song when I was a kid. Make me reminds a lot my father and mother during those days. Thanks for post it.

[karbritt]

@SniperRick70 ... my thoughts exactly ..my dad had an lp of his...I loved this track....used to play it loud when my mom and dad went shopping of a Saturday afternoon

[leandrobolotah]

can't feel anything but HAPPY when i listen to this

[figbat1]

LOVE THIS SONG!............my mum told me some juicy gossip from his visit downunder in '62.......i have posted it on you-tube site "engineering song quickssilver79".....press "hidden comments".....then press "view all comments". regards fans.

[fntavora]

Fantástica interpretação deste conhecido e alegre tema musical cheio de ritmo africano!

[terenatennent]

Still have this LP!

[dmb912002]

I just remember a funky bass-line intro followed by a horn section... and another funky guitar riff as the stars were answering questions

[dmb912002]

OK Im confused here.. and maybe Im just young enough to not remember,, but I have never heard this song on Match Game.. at what point in the show did they play it??

[lrd9999]

@dmb912002 This was the opening theme from '62 to '67, though the pilot used the Billy Vaughn version. I guess there was another theme for '68 ad '69, after which the show was canceled. When it returned (as "Match Game '73) is had yet another theme.

[rlrshepherdstown]

I am a Gene Rayburn A Swingin Safari Match Game Fan . I have known and loved that show ever since first watched the shows back in the 60's because I was born back in the early 60's . I sort of fell in love with Gene Rayburn and that reminds me so much of that show and the Host . I almost cry when I hear that song because miss Gene Rayburn very much .

[btnspl]

aah vi i femman :D

[Glinkaism1]

@PLADAHITZ1 Quite right! Yeah! Those were not just good times, but GREAT TIMES. We shall never see those great times again, alas! Gene Rayburn had a radio show on New York radio called Rayburn and Finch.

[cynthiacher]

This cheery, bouncy tune is featured in the claymation movie "Mary and Max". Although "Mary and Max" is a movie that features some pretty dark themes, this music fits it perfectly.

[man975dog]

Hey, this was a great and a famous hit in music from the past. Pity though that I never knew the name of it and the artist who did it. But now I do, I will love 2 add this great piece of music 2 my music collection at home.

[TrefyJot]

I grew up in foreign lands with this album so love something that i'm sure i shouldn't ;)

Thanks for this.

[VaniaDawson882]

DL the audio from this track at speedyconversion doht cohm.

[merlynus1]

I remembered this tune but never knew the name. Been searching for this for ages. I took a jazz class as a teenager, they played this and I adored dancing to it. Thank you so much u tube,,,, I love you too

[kingbushwickthe33rd]

Very cool and upbeat little ditty!!

I like it!!

[frankie3715]

Reminds one of those idyllic days in the early 60's, when life was much easier..As an African who was born in the 60's, i always associate this song with the days when independence meant a lot of promise to African countries.

[barnfresh60]

this song would always play at tommy tucker bakery

[kingbushwickthe33rd]

A lot more fun than all that'talking in tounges'malarky!!

[Roarrissa]

Lovely, Great song to end Mary and max with. : )

[rocketzigzag]

@Roarrissa That's exactly what brought me here! :P

[W2e4s1l9e6y]

an amazing song

i <3 it

[declanm24]

Saloon Stockcars!

[difa2ol]

Oh, we loved this as preteens back then!

[mickiejayne]

Basically grew up on this song :) Just found my dad's record of Bert... Love it!

[glenn1340]

I was thirteen when I first heard this and i fell in love with the girl on the cover of the album, I wonder where she is now

[manitogata]

Beautiful song, love it.

Brings back so many happy memories

[Panama1988mr]

тупняк полный

[123stepper]

You guys really need to listen to dubstep.

[DerPanzerjager]

@123stepper You really need to fuck off.

[123stepper]

@DerPanzerjager And you sir, you need a life.

[DerPanzerjager]

@123stepper I'm not the one going to random music videos on youtube and telling people to listen to dubstep.

[kingbushwickthe33rd]

@DerPanzerjager :

Sounds Like someone's got a case of the Mondays!!

[DerPanzerjager]

@kingbushwickthe33rd Funny you should mention that. I just finished watching Office Space a few hours ago.

[cribpointcritter]

@123stepper why on earth should we listen to "dubstep", I just did and guess what I wouldnt rush back and repeat the process. How about "You really need to more Bert Kaempfert and maybe throw asome James Last in as well. While your at it how about some Klaus Wunderlich and his happy hammond.

[hobstar95]

@123stepper perhaps you should go back to your dubstep and not spam this classic tune

[Fred607]

nunca me canso de escuchar este tema

[lunaliberiana]

Thanks Frankie you show me this piece of art 30 year ago...!!!! So sweet....like never in my life..!!!

[rlrshepherdstown]

I was born back in the early 60s ,and yes I do remember Gene Rayburn , The Match Game show and A Swingin Safari . Very well known .

[gvictores]

Yeah, this was music, there will never be music like this ever again. I was not born yet, but my mom and dad had good taste, they pass that taste to me, now I do to my daughter ... blessings to all :)

[baazooka86]

really brings back memories of coming home for lunch from school and this song would start as I walked in the door. I'm 7 years old again listening to it.

[UncleBuck2511]

This song and the whole album takes me back to the sixties and Stock Car Racing at Cowdenbeath (Fife) in Scotland. I was six years old (1965) and my father raced every sunday, great memories. In fact I'm sure I've still got the album in my collection. It was my fathers, but sadly, I received it when he passed on.

Still a fantastic sound.

[artin80]

best greatest song out of Africa, from mr, Bert Kaempfert.

Swinging Safari is the every greatest song,

[pmfenlon]

My very first favorite song when I was a kid in Montana. Thanks for posting it

[BobineFoladare04]

Rip the audio from this video at speedyconversion doht cohm.

[Iamthewalrusgoogoo]

This song...from my childhood...I've been looking for years!!! Didn't know the name of the song, or the artist. Been listening to all kind of sons, doing trial and errors for years...And I just found it now...Thanks for posting !!!!

[MegastarLV]

"From New York City, it's time to play... the Match Game!"

[cmulwee001]

A cover version by Billy Vaughn, is an almost exact copy of Bert's original. The main difference is Billy's is about a whole minute shorter, and the trumpet instrumental break is a little different. Both are great recordings

[dod351]

saloon stock cars and 1300 saloons thanks to master mcivor at thunder valley

[callummrstarter]

@dod351 yeah that be me dod lol

[MrKingtiger007]

The warm soth african sunshine warming me all over in a very cold cardiff in october !!!!!!!!!

[smikestack]

Stock car racing --- Sunday afternoons --- over the Tannoy system --- yeah!

[cribpointcritter]

My Goodness I remember this album when I was a kid. This was one of my parents party records.

[malindimama]

Lovely memories of my parents parties in Kenya with the Seychelois community at Garden estate. Those were wonderful times........

[IndianaSurfGuitar]

This one was the theme to a local radio show, in the 70s, called 'The Sell & Swap Shop'. Still need to get me a "surf" band put together, but I've done my own guitar instrumental arrangement of "A Swingin' Safari," so whenever I have my band, and whenever we play locally, we'll have to hit them with this one!

[viewstew]

I agree with welder541! I remember Gene Rayburn after school, too! There's something SO infectious about this song...I also loved the song Sandy Becker used for his theme. Happy Feeling I think? My mom often was playing this album when I walked in the door after school - happy memories, for sure. Thanks for posting!

[welder541]

Have always loved his Christmas Album!!! It's one of my favorites. But this song will always be a signature song in history to me. Who could forget Gene Rayburn & that wonderful show match game every afternoon:):):):) watched it everyday as a kid after school growing up. Thanx for a good post. Loved It!!!

[boswell69]

@welder541 Yes indeed. Good memories of The Match Game with Gene Rayburn. Glad you enjoyed!

[pbatommy]

@boswell69 Thanks to YouTube, we can even watch the Match Game again!

[themaytagrepairman]

@boswell69 That's what I as a kid thought this song was. The theme from the match game. Watched it everyday myself. Now at 52 years old I find out it has a title and a composer. If the rest of this album is as good as this song, I'd love to get a copy of it. Is it still available?

[nilsfolke]

@themaytagrepairman

Yes it is recently re-released on a CD.

[tonytarheel55]

@boswell69 you right i use to come home from school and hear this everyday

[rlrshepherdstown]

@welder541 Hey I always loved Gene Rayburn and the Match Game were the best , but A Swingin Safari in which I always called it the Match Game Theme Song . It was my childhood memory and still it lives on in my heart and Gene Rayburn I admired him for years and I still the shows on GSN for what's left . But NBC"s Match Game shows was where it all started and Gene Rayburn is still a legend . Here's your Host of the Match Game show Geneeeee Rayburnnnnnn .

[gilbertnormal]

Thanks Boswell69 for share this wonderful song. I remember that girl of the Polydor record when I was a child in my home.

[MrKingtiger007]

love this tune it reminds me of long hot summers at home in weymouth

[annie482000]

@MrKingtiger007 I love it too. Remember it well from my childhood days and it's often featured on BBC's DIY SOS.

[merlynus1]

@annie482000 I remember that !!!!!!! wow, so long ago now :)

[phoenixdoubledeuce]

so is wonderland by night