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| Medleys - Hits & Favourites |
| Charlie Kunz |
| első megjelenés éve: 2007 |
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| (2008)
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2 x CD |
| 3.956 Ft
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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | On Treasure Island/Thanks a Million/The Music Goes 'Round and Around
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| 2. | Theses Foolish Things/Please Believe Me/Goody-Goody
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| 3. | Some Other Time/A Little Bit Independent/Goodnight Sweetheart
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| 4. | The Touch of Your Lips/Where There's You, There's Me/Life Begins When You'r
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| 5. | Would You/It's a Sin to Tell a Lie/The Whistling Waltz
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| 6. | In a Little Gypsy Tea Room/Old Mammy Mine/Anything Goes
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| 7. | Robbins & Roses/Laughing Irish Eyes/A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody
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| 8. | Alone/The Sunset Trail/I Feel Like a Feather in a Breeze
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| 9. | Beneath the Lights of Home/Russian Rose/Down Forget-Me-Not-Lane
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| 10. | She Shall Have Music/Alone at a Table for Two/Pink Elephants
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| 11. | All the Things You Are/Until You Fool in Love/I'm Nobody's Baby
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| 12. | Fools Rush In/I Can't Love You Anymore/Make Believe Island
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| 13. | A Star Fell out of Heaven/Serenade in the Night/A Fine Romance
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| 14. | I Hear a Rhapsody/My Sister and I/Aurora
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| 15. | On the Beach at Bali Bali/Empty Saddles/You Can't Pull the Wool Over My
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| 16. | My Friend/A Sky-Blue Shirt and a Rainbow Tie/Sway
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| 17. | I Need You Now/No One But You/I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango
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| 18. | Who Are We/Walk Hand in Hand/The Birds and the Bees
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| 19. | Wayward Wind/Whatever Will Be Will Be/Hot Diggity
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| 20. | Somewhere Along the Way/Here in My Heart/Half as Much
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| 21. | The Island of Innisfree/Forget Me Not/You Belong to Me
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| 22. | Be Anything/There's a Pawn Shop on a Corner in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania/
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| 23. | Kiss of Fire/Blue Tango/The Gandy Dancer's Ball
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| 24. | September Song/All My Love/Ferryboat Inn
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | There Must Be a Reason/Hold My Hand/If I Give My Heart to You
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| 2. | All Alone/Because I Love You/The Song Is Ended
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| 3. | Galway Bay/My Happiness/Heartbreaker
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| 4. | Little Things Mean a Lot/Make Her Mine/My Son My Son
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| 5. | Tennessee Waltz/If/Beloved Be Faithful
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| 6. | Time May Change/You Can't Be True Dear/Nature Boy
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| 7. | My Foolish Heart/Me and My Shadow/C'est Sibon
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| 8. | Dearie/Bewitched/Let's Do It Again
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| 9. | Too Young/Too Late Now/Ivory Rag
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| 10. | With These Hands/The Love Light of the Year/My Truly Truly Fair
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| 11. | When You're in Love/I'm Yours/Meet Mister Calligan
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| 12. | The Homing Waltz/From the Time You Say Goodbye/Walking My Baby Back Home
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| 13. | You Can't Be True Dear/No Other Love/The Poor of Paris
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| 14. | It's Almost Tomorrow/A Tear Fell/My September Love
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| 15. | Love and Marriage/Rose Tattoo/Memories Are Made of This
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| 16. | The Finger of Suspicion/A Blossom Fell/Mister Sandman
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| 17. | Happy Days and Lonely Nights/Softly Softly/The Naughty Lady of Shady La
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| 18. | Unchained Melody/Prize of Gold/Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White
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| 19. | If Anyone Finds This I Love You/Under the Bridges of Paris/Open Your He
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| 20. | Blue Star/Stars Shine in Your Eyes/Ev'ry Day of My Life
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| 21. | Evermore/Ev'rywhere/Learning! The Blues
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| 22. | Outside of Heaven/Beacuse You're Mine/Went to Your Wedding
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| 23. | Faith Can Move Mountains/Broken Wings/Walking to Missouri
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| 24. | Love Is a Many Splendoured Thing/When You Lose the One You Love/The Shi
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Jazz / Nostalgia, Instrumental Pop, Lounge
Bernie Tyrrell Liner Notes
Colin Brown Compilation
Milton Keynes Artwork, Design
"Medley King" Charlie Kunz is the hero of this marvelous and elegant collection of Medleys: Hits and Favourites brought out in 2008 by Rex records. 48 regulation length tracks (approximately three minutes apiece) bear witness to the fact that after leading a successful dance orchestra during the late 1920s and early to mid-'30s, Kunz established himself as a master of the piano medley. Since there are several titles per track, this monument to accessibility gradually comes to resemble a goldmine of lovable innocent popular ditties from a bygone era. Glowing examples include "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody," "The Music Goes 'Round and Around," "In a Little Gypsy Tea Room," "Anything Goes," "Pink Elephants," "On the Beach at Bali Bali," "I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango," "Hot Diggity," and "There's a Pawnshop on a Corner in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania." ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide
Charlie Kunz
Active Decades: '20s, '30s and '40s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: British Dance Bands, Dance Bands, Nostalgia
Charlie Kunz, "the Medley King," was born in Allentown, PA, on August 8, 1896. His father was a master baker who blew the French horn. As a youngster Charlie played piano, church organ, and E-flat alto horn. In 1914 he switched from playing classical to popular dance music. He worked as a milkman, cobbler, ribbon weaver, bookseller, and mechanic. During the First World War he was a boiler riveter and a bombshell builder. By the age of 19 Charlie Kunz was leading his first band and opening for Paul Whiteman and Vincent Lopez at a ballroom in Allentown. He came to England in 1921 with a group led by percussionist Ed Krick. The following year he led Paul Specht's Criterions at the Trocadero Restaurant in Piccadilly. Remaining in England after his friends had all gone home, Kunz formed his first all-British band and began performing at the Lyons Corner House in Piccadilly Circus. He then expanded his ensemble to 14 pieces and played the Grafton Galleries. Kunz sat in on piano with the Dix Band at the Olympia Dance Hall in West Kensington and tickled the ivories at Ma Merrick's 43 Club, an infamous sporting house and all-night den of iniquity operating on Gerrard Street, Piccadilly. Kunz then played the Chez Henri Club in Long Acre, found it to his liking, and stayed on for eight and a half years.
In late 1928 and early 1929, Charlie Kunz & His Chez Henri Club Band made a handful of recordings for Columbia. The next phase of Kunz's career was inaugurated by nationally renowned dance instructor Santos Casani, who heard the band at Chez Henri and liked it so much that he lured Kunz away to his own Casani Club, which opened in March 1933 in Imperial House, Regent Street, London. Kunz became immensely popular as a result of BBC radio broadcasts that were transmitted from this location. His featured vocalist at the Casani was Vera Lynn; other singers who performed live and on record with Kunz were Dawn Davis, Dorothy Squires, George Barclay, Harry Bentley, Eve Becke, Phyllis Robins, George Buck, and Bobby Comber. Kunz's three mainstay instrumentalists were drummer and xylophonist Tommy Blades, bassist Frank Davis, and guitarist Ernie Penfold. The band's theme song was, naturally enough, "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie"; their sign-off theme was "Pink Elephants." Although he would make quite a slew of records for the Sterno and Rex labels with his Casani Club Orchestra between the years 1933 and 1937, Charlie Kunz played the Holborn Empire alone in 1934 and henceforth toured regularly as a solo act, invariably remaining in England rather than crossing the Channel to mainland Europe.
Between 1939 and 1945 Kunz did a lot of work for charity and for the war effort. During the last 15 years of his life he became the unrivaled king of the piano medley, performing alone or with subtle rhythm accompaniment. Kunz was married thrice, to one Amanda Dysher, to fashion model Eva Dorothy Lloyd, and finally to Pat Sparkes. A heavy smoker, Kunz was plagued by debilitating illnesses throughout much of his life. He had a diseased lung removed in 1945, and suffered from spinal tuberculosis, crippling contraction of the ligaments in his hands, and bronchial asthma. His later recording projects were completed only with great difficulty; an album of melodies from My Fair Lady was left unfinished. Charlie Kunz died of a heart attack at his home in Middleton-on-Sea, West Sussex, England, on March 16, 1958.
---arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide |
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