Horst Jankowski - "A Walk In The Black Forest " (1965)

Horst Jankowski (January 30, 1936 June 29, 1998) was a classically trained pianist, most famous for his internationally successful easy listening music.

Born in Berlin, Jankowski studied at the Berlin Music Conservatory and played jazz in Germany in the 1950s, serving as bandleader for singer Caterina Valente. Jankowski's fame as a composer of easy listening pop peaked in 1965 with his tune "Eine Schwarzwaldfahrt", released in English as "A Walk in the Black Forest". The tune became a pop hit, reaching #1 on the US Adult Contemporary chart, #12 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and #3 in the UK Singles Chart. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The track was featured on the BBC's review of the 1960s music scene, Pop Go The Sixties, broadcast on BBC One and ZDF, on January 1, 1970. The Genius of Jankowski album, released in 1965, was also a million seller.

Jankowski went on to score a string of successful albums, but moved on in the 1970s to concentrate more on jazz, including covers of pop and rock hits. Between 1989 and 1994 Jankowski composed and performed easy listening music for Sonoton, Germany.

Jankowski died of lung cancer in 1998, at the age of 62.

Traumklang und Rhythmus (1965; Mercury Records)
Encore (1965; Mercury Records)
The Genius of Jankowski (1965; Mercury Records) US #18[5]
More Genius of Jankowski (1966; Mercury Records) US #65
Sing mit Horst (1966; Mercury Records)
Still More Genius of Jankowski (1967; Mercury Records) US #107
The Horst Jankowski Scene (1967; Mercury Records)
And We Got Love (1967; Mercury Records)
So What's New? (1968; Mercury Records)
Play Some More, lieber Horst (1968; Mercury Records)
The Many Moods of Jankowski (1968; Mercury Records)
Piano Affairs (1968; Mercury Records)
Jankowski Plays Jankowski (1969; Mercury Records)
Jankowski Meets Beethoven (1969, Mercury Records)
A Walk in the Evergreens (1969; Mercury Records)
Piano on the Rocks (1970; Mercury Records)
Jankowskingsize For Nightpeople Only (1970; MPS)
Jankowskinetik (1970; MSP)
Jankowskeynotes (1970; MPS)
Follow Me (1972; Intercord)
International (1973; Intercord)
Jankowskyline (1973; Intercord)
Jankowski's Classic Explosion (1979; EMI)
The Best of Mr. Black Forest (1989; Sonoton / Intersound)
Piano Interlude (1994; Sonoton / Intersound)
Black Forest Explosion! (1997; Motor Music)
Eine Schwarzwaldfahrt (1998; Mercury Records)
Jankowskinetik (2003; Universal)
Jankowskeynotes (2004; Universal)

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[redmag5656]

Ipswich speedway still play this, lovely piece of music.

[sacredb0b]

Goodies

[newportbeachsailor]

THANKS.



[PacRimJim]

@pckid888 I hope you appreciate that your dad had excellent taste in music.

[PacRimJim]

I miss the easy listening radio stations that played melodic music of master musicians.

What passes for music today is either ghetto effluvia or the maudlin complaints of a honky-tonk n'er-do-well.

[zeaurreau]

Wow. Thanks. This was the first thing I bought with my first paycheck.

[BlakesLiberator]

Great sound quality with decent volume. I'm sharing it.

[b72s2JFK]

Oh what a beautiful song. OMG so many memories on listening to easy listening on Roanoke's WPVR 94.9. Now 38 years later Im learning to play harmony to this exquisite tune with my little squeak box, aka violin. So lovely is the harmony of the background violins with arco and pizzicato. I at least can nail the pizzicato. LOL. Never get tired listening to it and practicing to it for my spring time repetiore.

[isarabhakdi]

great

[lighthouse44]

Great music lives forever and this is great music.