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| Famous Piano Medleys |
| Charlie Kunz |
| első megjelenés éve: 2004 |
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| (2006)
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2 x CD |
| 3.956 Ft
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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | A Tree In The Meadow / I Wonder who's Kissing Her Now / Near You
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| 2. | Tangerine / One More Kiss / Miss You
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| 3. | How Green Was My Valley / Rustic Rhapsody / Deep In The Heart Of Texas
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| 4. | I Don't Want To Walk Without You / The Anniversary waltz / Angeline
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| 5. | Tea For Two / Why Do I Love You / I Want To Be Happy
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| 6. | Rose Marie / Indian Love Call / The Girl friend
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| 7. | I'll Buy That Dream / It's A Grand Night For Singing / It Might As Well Be Spring
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| 8. | Shoe Shine Boy / When I'm With You / Somebody Stole My Gal
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| 9. | Take My Heart / Cafe Continental / Did I Remember
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| 10. | In A Chapel In The Moonlight / Did You Mother Come From Ireland / Sing Baby Sing
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| 11. | When Did You Leave Heaven / I Dream Of San Marino / When A Lady Meets A Gentleman Down South
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| 12. | Sand In My Shoes / Yours / Kiss The Boy Goodbye
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| 13. | Marie Elena / I Don't Want To set the World On Fire / It Always Rains Before The Rainbow
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| 14. | I'll Think Of You / Boa Noite / The Hut-Sut Song
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| 15. | Cornsilk / London Pride / I Yi Yi Yi Yi (Like You Very Much)
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| 16. | Two Sleepy People / My Own / The Park Parade
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| 17. | Grandma Said / I Miss You In The Morning / Nice People
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| 18. | I Won't Tell A Soul / The Donkey serenade / This Time It's Real
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| 19. | I Can't Remember Her Name / The Whispering Waltz / How ëDja Like To Love Me
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| 20. | With A Song In My Heart / I'll Walk Alone /Tea For Two
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| 21. | You're Just In Love / It's A Lovely Day Today
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| 22. | The Best Thing For You / Washington Square Dance
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | In The Blue Of The Evening / Heavenly Music / Put Your Arms Around Me Honey
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| 2. | Close To You / Be Honest With Me / If You Please
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| 3. | Roll On Tomorrow / Sunday Monday Or Always / With All My Heart
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| 4. | Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer / In My Arms / Take It From There
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| 5. | I Never Mention Your Name / If I Had My Way / Ten Little Men With Feathers
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| 6. | You Happen Once In A Lifetime / Someday We Shall Meet Again / Pedro The Fisherman
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| 7. | I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night / All My Life / Amor Amor
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| 8. | I'll Get By / Don't Ask Me Why / Don't Sweetheart Me
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| 9. | Silver Wings In The Moonlight / I'd Like To Set You To Music / Johnny Zero
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| 10. | You Rhyme With Everything That's Beautiful / What's The Good Word Mr Bluebird / Side By Side
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| 11. | There Are Such Things / Darling / I Want Somebody
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| 12. | I Say / When You Know You're Not Forgotten / Soldier Boy From Caroline
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| 13. | Mairzy Doats And Dozy Doats / A Journey To A Star / You're The Rainbow
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| 14. | I'm Sending My Blessings / Pocket Full O' Pennies / Someday Soon
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| 15. | I'll Walk Alone / Swinging On A Star / Shine On Victory Moon
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| 16. | Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year / The Echo Of A Serenade / San Fernando Valley
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| 17. | Moonlight Becomes Her / I Met Her On A Monday / Mary's A Grand Old Name
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| 18. | Constantly / At Last / When The Lights Go On Again
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| 19. | Dearly Beloved / As Time Goes By / A Touch Of Texas
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| 20. | Daybreak / For Me And My Gal / Yankee Doodle Boy
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| 21. | Love Is A Song / Question And Answer / I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo
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| 22. | You Are My Sunshine / My Devotion / That's The Moon My Son
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Jazz / Nostalgia
Features the ever popular Mr. Kunz from the latter part of his very successful career which he spent touring variety theatres and making many splendid recordings of medleys featuring the most popular tunes from that period and the past. This new Double CD is the most comprehensive collection of hits from the prime of the Charlie Kunz catalogue.
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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