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| 1. | 'A' You're Adorable/The Harry Lime Theme/I Don't See Me In Your Eyes Anymore/The Wedding Of Lili Marlene/Careless Hands
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| 2. | Time May Change; You Can't Be True Dear; Nature Boy; Galway Bay; My Happiness; Heartbreaker
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| 3. | Waltzing With Noel Coward: I'll See You Again; I'll Follow My Secret Heart; Someday I'll Find You
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| 4. | Kiss The Boys Goodbye
Charlie Kunz & His Ballroom Orchestra
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| 5. | Yours
Charlie Kunz & His Ballroom Orchestra
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| 6. | Jealous Heart/You're Breaking My Heart/The Wedding Samba/Dear Hearts And Gentle People/Confidentially/Hop Skotch Polka
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| 7. | So Tired; Ballin' The Jack; The Woody Woodpecker
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| 8. | I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire
Charlie Kunz & His Ballroom Orchestra
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| 9. | My Foolish Heart; Me And My Shadow; C'est Si Bon
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| 10. | Dearie; Bewitched; Let's Do It Again
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| 11. | Reflections On The Water; Golden Earrings; Civilization
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| 12. | A Tree In The Meadow; I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now; Near You
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| 13. | On The 5.45; It's Magic; Powder Your Face With Sunshine; For You; Faraway Places; The Cuckoo Waltz
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| 14. | Waltzing With Ivor Novello: Waltz Of My Heart; Glamorous Night; Music In May
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| 15. | Till Then; Five Minutes More; The Old Lamplighter; Let It Be Soon; Sweetheart We'll Never Grow Old; Anniversary Song
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| 16. | My Thanks To You; Marta; Out Of A Clear Blue Sky; The Old Piano Roll Blues; I'd Have Baked A Cake; Choo'n Gum
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| 17. | On A Slow Boat To China; Underneath The Linden Tree; A Little Bird Told Me; Brush Those Tears From Your Eyes;
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| 17. | Maybe You'll Be There; Cuanto La Gusta
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Jazz / Dance Bands, British Dance Bands
Charlie Kunz Piano
Ballroom Orchestra
Gordon Gray Compilation, Producer
Roger Wake Digital Remastering, Transfers
Tony Watts Liner Notes
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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