"'86" Caterina Valente W/The Count Basie Orchestra Conducted by: Thad Jones" CD

Description: Caterina Valente: Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931) is an Italian-French multilingual singer, guitarist and dancer. She speaks six languages and sings in eleven. While she is best known as a performer in Europe, Valente spent part of her career in the United States, where she performed alongside Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. She was born in Paris to Italian parents Giuseppe and Maria Valente. In 1955, she was featured on The Colgate Comedy Hour with Gordon MacRae. In 1958, she filmed the musical comedy Hier bin ich – hier bleib ich (Here I Am, Here I Stay) which featured a guest appearance by Bill Haley & His Comets. During Haley's segment, Valente sang a duet with Haley on a newly recorded version of his song "Vive la Rock and Roll". Her brother—Italian musician, singer and film actor Silvio Francesco [de] (1927–2000)—performed with her, sang many duets, danced, and played the clarinet in the shadow of his famous sister. In Germany, she was a major performer of Schlager music. There, she recorded Cole Porter's "I Love Paris" under the German title "Ganz Paris träumt von der Liebe", which sold more than 900,000 copies from its release in November 1954 to December 1958, according to Der Spiegel's report of January 1959. By a report from 1978, Valente's single, "The Breeze and I", has sold more than one million copies,[4] making it her best-selling record. Both songs were published by the German Polydor label; their success made Valente a star. At the end of 1958, this collaboration was terminated, and she changed to Teldec Telefunken-Decca Schallplatten GmbH. In 1959, she was nominated for a Grammy Award. In the mid-1960s, Valente worked with Claus Ogerman and recorded material in both Italian and English that he arranged/conducted and/or composed on the Decca and London labels. Valente was a favorite of singer Perry Como, making eight guest appearances on his NBC Kraft Music Hall television program from 1961 to 1966. In 1964–65, she was co-host (with Carol Burnett and initially Bob Newhart) of The Entertainers, a CBS variety show for which she was awarded the recognition of best female vocalist on American television. She was a frequent guest on The Dean Martin Show. Valente also made three appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show. Over the years, she has recorded or performed with many international stars, including Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Claus Ogerman, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Sy Oliver, Buddy Rich and Edmundo Ros. In 1970, she appeared in the Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium singing "Before the Parade Passes By" and "The Breeze and I". A briglia sciolta, the Italian jazz CD recorded in 1989 and re-released in later years under the titles Fantastica and Platinum deluxe, was her best-selling CD worldwide. In 2001, she released a new album, Girltalk, with harpist Catherine Michel. She retired in 2003. In 2019, her hit song from 1959, "Bongo cha cha cha" was included in the soundtrack of Spider-Man: Far from Home, directed by Jon Watts, becoming viral and risen to new popularity. In 2021, the song went viral on social media platform TikTok, thanks to its use for a trend that has collected over 250 million views, started from Latin countries and South America, and then popularized also in Italy and Germany Horst Jankowski: Horst Jankowski (30 January 1936 – 29 June 1998) was a classically trained German pianist, most famous for his internationally successful easy listening music. Born in Berlin,[1] Jankowski studied at the Berlin Music Conservatory and played jazz in Germany in the 1950s, serving as bandleader for singer Caterina Valente. Jankowski's fame as a composer of easy listening pop peaked in 1965 with his tune "Eine Schwarzwaldfahrt", released in English as "A Walk in the Black Forest". The tune became a pop hit, reaching #1 on the US easy listening chart, #12 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and #3 on the UK Singles Chart. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The track was featured on the BBC's review of the 1960s music scene, Pop Go The Sixties, broadcast on BBC One and ZDF, on 31 December 1969. It can be heard years before 1965 in episodes of Perry Mason (1957 TV series). This track has become a signature song at Plymouth Argyle F.C., being played at the end of each game as the fans leave the grounds. The song also featured as a running joke in the episode Radio Goodies of the 1970s BBC TV series The Goodies, as the only record possessed by the group's radio station. The Genius of Jankowski album, released in 1965, was also a million seller. Jankowski went on to score a string of successful albums, but moved on in the 1970s to concentrate more on jazz, including covers of pop and rock hits. Between 1989 and 1994 Jankowski composed and performed easy listening music for Sonoton, Germany. Jankowski died of lung cancer in 1998, at the age of 62. Caterina Valente And The Count Basie Orchestra*, Thad Jones – Caterina Valente '86 & The Count Basie OrchestraGenre:Jazz, LatinStyle:Big Band, Swing, ChansonYear:1986Track list:Sweet Georgia Brown2:53Wenn Es Nacht Wird In Paris - When Night Falls In Paris4:18Der Wind Und Du - The Breeze And I3:58Nimm Den Zug Nach Harlem - Take The "A" Train2:55Doch Wenn Du Träumst Dann Träum Nur Von Mir - Lil' Darlin'3:57Poinciana 2:57Ein Bißchen Swing Muß Sein (Cute) - A Little Swing Is Enough3:16St. Louis Blues3:47Savoy (Stompin' At The Savoy)2:48Ganz Paris Träumt Von Der Liebe - I Love Paris2:23In Der Einsamkeit - Solitude3:53Doch Meine Liebe Hält Mich Warm - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm3:26Malaguena3:20Du Gehst Mir Unwahrscheinlich Ans Gefühl - I'm Getting Sentimental Over You3:47Bis - Till3:16Die Sprache Des Regens - Canto De Ossaña :51

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