Andre Kostelanetz - Sweet Surrender

Russian-born Andre Kostelanetz was one of the pioneers of easy listening music. He started his career with American radiostations in the 1920's and '30's and from 1940 on, he started issueing albums which at first contained "classical music" arranged in a "popular way" but soon Andre also "tackled" the popsongs of his era. He re-arranged them for orchestra and during the 1940's, 50's,60's and 70's (up to his death in 1980 at 78) his music duly found a large audience, not in the least because many radiostations worldwide aired his tunes quite regularly. His arrangement of the David Gates song "Sweet Surrender" inspired us to create this presentation titled "Reach for the Skies". Hope you enjoy !

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• Andre
• Kostelanetz
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• orkest
• orkesten
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• instrumental
• Sweet
• Surrender
• David
• Gates
• easy
• listening
• relax
• lounge
• music
• orkestraal
• seventies

[RBQuady]

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.

[Socratess2007]

@RBQuady Thank you for your nice compliment and for the additional (interesting!) information :-)

[manusundays]

Magnífico! Envolvente! KOSTELANETZZZZZZZZZZ!

[natureboy101161]

Forgot how nice this tune is, thanks for posting it. Need to hear more.

[CosmicArdency]

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?

[Socratess2007]

@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 ;-)

[chkjns]

@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!

[Socratess2007]

@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 ;-)) !!

[chkjns]

@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.

[Socratess2007]

@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......