IN MEMORIAM 1923 – 1980
Bert Kaempfert
Artist in the Deadikace database.
Big Band Music Easy Listening Instrumental Music Jazz
Bert Kaempfert was a German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger, and composer. He made easy listening and jazz-orientated records and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, including “Strangers in the Night”, “Danke Schoen”, “Moon over Naples” and “A Swingin’ Safari”. In 1961, Kaempfert was the first to produce professional music recordings by the Beatles.
Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.
1923
Born October 16, 1923 in Germany
BIRTH
1980
Died at 57
IN MEMORIAM