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  • I was a youngster when this song 1st made it big time. It is pleasant with a little pep in it and one can daydream a pleasant dream in tune with the music.

  • One of the all-time great instrumentals. 

  • oh damn what a great song,i don't want you to be insulted but I discover Horst from the videogame Saints Row 2

  • Wonderful Memories, Thanks!

  • Close my eyes and I'm right back in my Navy days, kids were little, first small house, one used car in the driveway, one tv with maybe 5 stations, piano in the den, and we were HAPPY>

  • One of the most happy instrumentals ever. It was recorded during a time when the future looked bright and the music of that era shows it.

  • Thank God I found this!! I have been hearing this a years and I never knew the name of the song or anything... I had to do some research to find it. but now that I have, I love it :P

  • i hope those two who dislike the song has flashlights while walking through the black forest.good tune.

  • This is the original version so what other version could someone be looking for?

  • Now I can see my Grandpa whistling it... ;(

  • 2-2-2-2- price check

  • This is not bad, but this is not the version which I remember, which I have been looking for for yeas with no sucess......

  • @maomikimirai The group Apollo 100 did a version of this song- here is the youtube url: watch?v=yC_R1rQoUq4 Perhaps that is the one you are looking for?

  • Hot Sauce cleanup on Aisle Nine...

    

  • Absolutly love this song.  A blast from the past!

  • I was a kid in Germany when this was big. Grew up in Mannheim near American military base. I always wanted to be an American. Now I am.

  • @MrHansglueck That's a nice story. My boyhood friend across the street and his family were German, originally from Wilhelmshaven. Their friendship was like a window into another country, and another world, and I shall always be grateful for it. Best wishes to you, and I'm glad you came to the USA.

  • Horst Jankowski is gone, but definitely not forgotten. I'll never forget this song from 1965.

  • This was my parents favorite song!

  • Two people hate life.

  • Back in '68 my scout pack met in the managers office in Stanwood's Thrifty foods grocery store. It was surreal walking up the stairs past the fake suspended ceiling hanging by wires with Jankowski's A Walk In The Black Forest piping out of dozens of speakers and echoing past us up stairwell, I never forgot it. Great tune,great memories.

  • Why oh why can't we have music like this today? The stuff they are playing is so irritating. This tune is so catchy and makes you FEEL good. Thx so much for this.

  • @flagday45 I loved this tune when I was 10 yrs old, and love it 46 yrs later! Some books have been in publication for a very long time and people still love them. Play this one whenever you need a smile to come to your face. It just happened to me!

  • When I got into records this was a popular item in the mid 60's

    this is now July, 2011

  • When I got into records this was a popular item in the mid 60's

  • I used to listen to this on a home made reel to reel tape recorder with a single "Hi Fi" speaker. Recorded it off of a home made turntable with an arm using a steel needle. Remember Burnside-Applebee and Olsen Electronics?

  • å så har me juksa litt

  • ahhhh my childhood - what a place to be - so many special people not here that were here then. Classic's

  • What a great place

  • Every time I hear this I think of that one Goodies episode with the pirate radio station where this was just on a loop. XD

  • wow i love it i always have

  • ive got this peice for alto sax

  • wow, so evocative of a long lost, loved and cherished time. happy days!

  • Thanks boswell69. This is one of my favorite instrumentals. (Joe G.)

  • when my mom wanted to relax (while raising 4 boys in the 60's) she would put this 45 on the turntable and let it play a couple times. She would escape to the black forest I believe to get away from us...

  • In Stereo wow. Always heard it in mono. So they did originally record in stereo. Lovely.

  • Love it, great piano and arrangement! Here's a new version of a famous 60s hit. TELSTAR by THE DUELLING PIANOS

  • i loved this song when i was a kid still do.

  • I Will never forget that this was the only record Bill Oddie had to play on The Goodies pirate radio station.

  • @kuskuss63 - I loved that episode of the Goodies. "And now, we return with the latest music with ... A Walk In the Black Forest". Cue music.

  • @raksh9 Yes, it was the only record they had in their Pirate Radio Station lol

  • @kuskuss63

    'Yes, so come to The Goodies Post Office, and on the way, who knows, maybe you'll take A Walk In The Black Forest...'

    I love that line so much.

  • 2 people got lost in the Black Forest.

  • A song from my childhood so many many many many years ago!! Love it!! Thanks

  • Life is so strange. When I first heard this song, the Black Forest was just a place somewhere far away. Two years later, I was living in it.

  • The sixties had some pretty good music. Also, there was a lot of competition between kids and adults for musical tastes; tunes like this prospered due to adults buying records as well as the kids. At times, competition for the record player must have been fierce!

  • Reminds me of walking into Mr. Dunderback`s deli at the mall...And enough sausage sticks and gummy bears to feed 6th Armee`

  • i learnt the quick step to this..

  • Love this, thanks for posting. I used to have all his albums. How about the song Sir Scotch Whiskey? Don't remember which album.

  • Truly a great fun song

  • Memories, memories, memories of the 1960s...this on the car radio, being in love,....and my younger brother and sister TOTALLY addicted to watching "Dark Shadows" in the afternoon.  Life was so sweet.

  • @brownies4you

    funny thing about your name strikes me as back in the day, sara lee made a choc brownie that was frozen and u had to thaw it out for about 2 hrs but it was maybe the greatest ANYTHING i ever tasted in my life. but having fun with this in about 1965 when this song came out, the chgo tribune was 10 cents, lbj was going to lead us to the promised land and i was living, eating and the beatles were just the greatest.

  • Oh what great 60's memories. They just don't make 'em like this anymore.

  • They always used to wake you up in the morning with this at Butlins! Great memories.

  • This reminds me of speedway at foxhall heath 

  • @aussie427 The good old days of Tiger, Shrimp, Billy, Siggy, Cowboy and Donc!

  • @pab70 The real days of Witches speedway although i think the good days are about to return

  • Hit #1 On the Adult Contemporary chart on July 10 1965.

  • Its grate to hear it on the radio it makes me young.

  • call that a walk!

  • now thats what I'm talking about!

  • LOvely memories from time gone by. A beautiful sophisticated 60's sound.

  • For me,this melody is full of memories!!!Thanks for posting!!

  • Für mich ist dies eine wunderschöne Zeitreise;erinnere mich noch gut daran,als vor 40zig Jahren meine Eltern mit mir einen Sonntags-Schwarzwald-Ausflug gemacht haben&auf der sonnigen Rückfahrt ich auf dem Rücksitz des Borgward Isabellas u.a.diese Melodie aus dem Kofferradio hörte,die so schön passte!Vielen&herzlichen Dank für´s Einstellen!!!

  • I wish this version was downloadable for sale...great happy tune to wake up to or even play while riding around in your car

  • First Cobra went 0 - 96 (or 60 mph) in 4.2 seconds. This with the 260 cu. in. tri-power under it's hood. Then punched out to 289. Same block today is the 302

  • Holy cow, there are people argueing about 60's hot rods, and the scarey thing is... I understand them !!!

  • I really don't care what car was faster. In 1964, Ford ran one hundred Comet Caliente's around the Daytona oval at an average speed of 112 mph. All with the 289-4v 225 BHP (about 175 net). They were ran for 100,000 miles non stop. NOT ONE MECHANICAL FAILURE.. Try that with a modern day Malibu with it's much faster 200 nethp V-6. Source is Motor Trend but I forget the month

  • The push rod engines from Ford remain to this day as a shining example of Ford engineering in NASACAR, NHRA, SCORE and on..any anyone with half a brain would never tie into a Shelby 289 AC Cobra..any Chibbie that ever did limped away with his rear end snake bit..."FACT"

  • @raginroadrunner SPRING little Cobra. I remember that car well, then Ford wrecked it when they dropped in the big block 427, or 429 whatever.

  • An absolute classic; thanks so much for posting this high quality sound piece.

  • Now, this song reminds me of Biltmore Village, here in Asheville. Maybe I heard it here then?? Perhaps. Thanks for posting it!

  • The first time I heard this, was when I was visiting an aunt and uncle!

  • My fave insrumental that brings back memories of WIND in Chicago back in the '60s. Thanks!

  • isnt this sort-of Elevator or Piped Music

  • @wooferfreak Oh I see now. Your name here explains it.

  • Unheard for years. Why won't the 'oldies' radio stations broadcast these wonderful tunes?

  • @paddyosee Excellent question. The reason is that most (if not all) stations these days are corporate-owned and consulted and everything they play is tested and researched to death, and if it doesn't test well, it doesn't get played. How they decide what gets tested I don't know. This song, among MANY others you won't hear anywhere else, IS on the playlist of my Part 15 AM station because *I* alone decide what does and doesn't get played.

  • @wannawatchu66 Very true.

  • @wannawatchu66 and I hope your station gets a few extra tons of advertising. Make a mint on it. Any jerk can follow the crowd, and most jerks do

  • @sparwood8 AMEN!

  • @wannawatchu66: PLEASE call this a "piece" as opposed to a "song." A song has words. Unless as it's in Mendelssohn's "Song without words" where he made that clear. Do you ever play Billy Vaughn's version of Nelson Riddle's "Route 66?" It had the strings as in the actual TV theme and chorus reminiscent of the "Saint's theme."

  • @paullubliner Billy Vaughn is awesome. WHEELS comes to mind

  • This song was used in the funniest TV advert which I've ever seen. It was an advert for Yellow Pages Australia which involved a young man getting caught in a faulty elevator while this song continually plays in the background. Those who've seen ithe ad will know why it was so funny!

  • This & Elizabethan Serenade are 2 of my favourite instrumentals..

  • One of my faves!  Thanks for posting.

  • @MrTrashcan1 you are quite welcome.

  • @MrTrashcan1 July 22nd 1965 (46 years ago today as I write this). I left school (which I hated). I got home and the radio was on (my mum was sulking because I had refused to stay on at school for another year and when she was in that mood she'd take it out on the radio and the sewing machine). This tune was playing - so to me it is my freedom tune. I think it was in the Top 10 in the U.K. at the time

  • I was 15 on a school coach trip to Germany

    in 1965 listening to this on AFN......

  • immer gut, leider gibts kein video, film, fernseh sequenz von Horst J., trotzdem thanks for the music!

  • Great song. This was the theme to the "Galloping Gourmet" with Graham Kerr (pronounced "care"). Aside from Julia Child the French Chef, this was one of the only cooking shows on TV in the mid 60s. Graham was such a likable personality, he usually spent the first 20 min sitting on a stool laughing and chatting with the live audience, then rushed through the day's recipe in the final segment of the show, sipping wine all the way through.

  • One of the instrumental gold of the 60s.

  • I was stationed at Ft Carson Colorado in 1965 when this was made..brings back lots of memeories...some good...some bad..

  • Thanks, loved this xxx

  • Thanks, loved this

  • Thanks

  • im going around sining on this anywhere i go, its just to good to be true! this is kinda old, so it may be strange that im 12 and likes it. wait! anyone at all ages will love this song! (im sorry if its bad english, im norwegian)

  • What a great tune,I can't stop listening to it.

  • Wow, it has been a very, very long time since I've heard this song. It was one of my favourites and I can't believe it's here! Thanks for posting it.

  • Route 66 by Nelson Riddle

    Summer Samba by Walter Wanderly

  • Holy Underwear, Batman! I've always LOVED this snappy tune! Brings back lots of pleasant memories from when I was a kid in the 60's. MANY thanks for sharing this delightful "blast from the past" with us! You've MADE my day & my week! :)

  • glad you enjoyed!

  • @JubalCalif

    Agreed. It's perfect.

  • @veritasvg

    You're obviously a person of rare taste, refinement & intelligence! I hope you're having a wonderful weekend! THANKS for your comment! :-)

  • Great tune. I highly recommend the Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass version too.

  • where can i find the one by herb alpert??? looking all over. did he sing it or just instrumental? also mr acker bilker did a nice rendition of it but it much slower and a little more sugar sweet than jjankowski. tthen there is the organist on youtube that does a beauty but lets all take our hats off to the late horst who recorderd one of the 5 greatest instrumentals of all l time.what could the other 4 be????

  • 1. Stranger On The Shore -- Acker Bilk

    2. A Summer Place -- Percy Faith

    3. Route 66 Theme -- Nelson Riddle

    4. Theme from 'The Big Country' -- Jerome Moross

    OK, your turn.

  • well the 1st 4 that really i have in mind are:

    theme from a summer place (i agree)

    them from the apartment 1960

    take 5 dave brubeck (just a masterpiece)

    tequila(even tho it has a few spoken words)

    but the argument can go on forever

    it's just for fun

  • @toophunny

    5.This one

    6.Lisbon Antigua

    7.The Poor People of Paris

    8.Canadian Sunset-_Cramer)

    9 A Happy Feeling.

  • Lisbon Antigua - Nelson Riddle

  • The dude in the picture looks desperate, the babe looks indifferent, but agreable.

  • lollll

  • Heh heh, yeah, very good!

  • Who can remember the good days of offshore radio, we played this track quite often to take us up to the news at the top of the hour! it was great being young & care free.

  • ah yes the glory days of 1965. leo durocher was about to be named manager of the cicago cubs, sandy koufax was still pitching, the beatles were riding tall in the saddle, a mounds bar cost 10 cents and we all thought that lbj was gonna lead us to the great society. things seldom work out the way we hope.

  • Actually sometimes things can work out, ok it has taken me a lifetime to get on the right track but I still live for the sixties.

  • @mikeyoungish

    Quote: "One teardrop of pure joy is worth a lifetime of false laughter; and one moment lived in the here and now, is worth a thousand ysterdays' - Desiderata

    Took me a while to get some things figured out too, then they went and changed the game

  • @emrrbv

    Chevvy had the 427. Mopar the 426. women were sexy instead of tattoo'd. and if you forgot to tlock your front door, no sweat

  • @sparwood8 ...The Chev 427 was a dog, the women were too...the sixties sucked...I was there and the Ford 427 was a monster...ran them @7000 rpm for 24 hours at Lemans..no big block Chevrolet could boast of such a feat..and don't forget the Mopar 440..many a Chibbie got his ass whipped good by one of them Dudes...

  • @raginroadrunner I really don't care. 60's were great fun and the babes were WAY prettier. they actually wore nice clothes. sounds like you just on a permanent downer

  • @sparwood8

    I think that's why people are so attracted to watching Mad Men. It reminds them of the sixties before we had our nervous breakdown.

  • @raginroadrunner Not bad for a pushrod 1920's design!

  • @sparwood8 ...the Chev 427 was a dog...

  • @raginroadrunner Interesting comment. Seeking to impress? Or just opinionated? (I really don't give a damn what the 427 was)

  • @sparwood8 Ford had the 428, lets burn the tires!

  • @jimbobubbadj My old '67 had the 390 interceptor engine. (Holly 4V-330 hp) Never did like the 428; 429 much better

  • @sparwood8 ..and Ford had the 427 Tunnel port side oiler and if it had been released it would have kicked everybody;s ass..sadly Ford turned it;s attention to kicking Ferrari's ass and so they did....three years in a row at Lemans ..Ford management decided there just wasn't any reason to hang around thise European dead beats and quit racing..

  • @sparwood8 Damn...I had the 426 (Dodge Polara 500 convertible!) and one helluva sexy woman...lost both of them due to extraordinary stupidity...wish I had the car back, but I still love this song!

  • SWEET ;)

  • I need a 5 to 6 minute version

  • Who remembers the "Away to Adventure" programme on BBC in the early 1960's which ahd this as a signature tune . Also, anyone remember a similar programme, (name unknown) around the same time of the 1960's with Bill Grundy of Granada fame going on a narrow boat trip from North to South through the UK. What was it called ?

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