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Bigband Bash EXTRA for Mentor Horst Wendt / RIAS Berlin: Swing to Philly

February 08, 2021 Joachim Bohne
Popmundial Radio 1 Globetrotting (incl. Radio 2: Sounds Easy until 2023)
Bigband Bash EXTRA for Mentor Horst Wendt / RIAS Berlin: Swing to Philly
Show Notes


Dear Horst, Horst  Wendt  !

GUTE GENESUNG !

Ich konnte Sie wegen des Wetters nicht persönlich besuchen; deswegen diese Grüsse:
Statt vieler Worte, die ich Ihnen überbringen wollte,  bitte hören ! Music matters !

For all:

This show is based on a live show Sunday 9pm; the enhanced version has been re-recorded right after the original broadcast that night.

You gonna listen to some rare recordings and many others are unheard  for a long time:
Including Fletcher Hendeson Big Re-Union!


"BIGBAND SWING TO BIGBAND FUNK":

Playlist:
- Max Greger cond. the RIAS Berlin Bigband
- Thilo Wolf Bigband, Fürth, and Bill Ramsey (voc)
- The (almost unkown Bigband of the ) BR Munich, principal cond. Ed Sperber (Nurenberg)
   (got famous as "Dave Daffodil, cond. by Josef NIESSEN, married to Ilse Werner)       "Tanzorchester Studio Nünrberg" (unreleased)
- Bert Kaempfert
- N.C.Y. Opera Singer Cleo Laine and London Jazz Saxophonist John Dankworth & Bigband     ("Chattanooga Choo Choo"), live from their "Stables" (unreleased)
-Ray Mc Kinley & The Offical Glenn Miller Orchestra, (first official stereo recording of Glenn      Miller´s music)
-  (Original) Glenn Miller playing Count Basie ("One O´Clock Jump"),  rec. Carnegie Hall 1938
- Max Greger -: "Up to Date" (later to become  the ZDF Sportsudio theme)
- a rare Max Greger (sax solo) with the Bert Kaempfert Bigband from the ealy 50s ("El Rancho     Rock"), rarity transfer from 45s
- Bert Kaempfert: "Love Me Happy", with Jiggs Whigham (tb), Ack van Rooyen (t), Herb Geller    (sax, which I forget to mention in the show), unreleased rarity, later on CD re-released
- Les Brown Bigband of Renown, with band singer: Doris Day, signiture "Sentimental Journey"
- Doris Day & Hollywood Film Bigband (unkown): "Lullaby of Broadway" (Soundtrack)
- Thilo Wolf (piano) & Bigband, recorded live in Fürth (unreleased)
- Peter Nero
- Rias Orchestra, piano: Heinrich Riethmüller doing  Horst Jankovski´s Stuttgart world hit         "Walk In The Black Forrest", rarity
- Rias Berlin Bigband
- Fletcher Henderson Big Reunion Bigband
- Sylvia Vrethammer jazz Duo, (Rune Gustavson) unreleased, exclusive to Popmundial ("Love")
- Bert Kaempfert "Honey Moon" (composition Kaempfert), released in the US only
- Ed Sperber & The Bigband of the BR: "Gentle On My Mind", unreleased, private LP pressing
- Wooyy Herman & His Thundering Herd: "Blues In the Night Funk"
- Count Basie Bigband & Frank Sintra (voc), live at the Sands, Las Vegas , Sinatra´s home, 
- Quincy Jones & Bigband "Midnight Soul Parade"
- M.F.S.B. "Poinciniana" (salsoul classic), 1971
- The Neff (Hildegard Knef & Bet Kaempfert), rare Philipps recording
- Erwin Lehn & the Stuttgart Radio Bigband, late 50s mono recording (Bernd Raabe solo)
- Robbie Williams & Studio Bigband "Going Gentle"
- Caterina Valente (voc) & Kurt Edelhagen & WDR Bigband Cologne "I get a Kick" (early 50s)
- RIAS Bigband, Werner Müller "Love Me Tonight", rare viny


In general:
this is a showcase for Bigband music from Swing (Glenn Miller) to funk:
including rare tracks by the Quincy Jones Big Band and MFSB (Philly)

Swing To Philly !
recorded Feb 7th, 2021 Berlin
released Feb 12th, Lille


BIGBAND BASH is scheduled every Sunday 9pm Paris
and a different second show Sunday into Monday morning at 1am Paris
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