Bye Bye Blues

Bert Kaempfert | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Taragon
• ASIN: B00000I7IE
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  Unknown Binding
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,909 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bye Bye Blues

2. Remember When (We Made These Memories)

3. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You)

4. Tahitian Sunset

5. Once in a While

6. Steady Does It

7. It Makes No Difference

8. You Stepped out of a Dream

9. Wiederseh'n

10. I'm Beginning to See the Light

11. Melina

12. (You Came Along from) Out of Nowhere

13. Sweet Romance (Love for Love) [*]

14. Drummer's Dream [*]

15. Serenade (Calling All Brass) [*]

16. Chocolate Sundae [*]

17. The Roseland Waltz [*]

18. If There's a Way (Always in Love) [*]

19. Monte Carlo [*]

Editorial Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Klassic" Kaempfert, August 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Bye Bye Blues (Audio CD)

I have had this album in my collection since it came out in 1966. A trmendous recording, and I am so lucky to now have it in CD version. Perhaps the best one-three combo by Bert! "Bye Bye Blues", "Remember When", and "Let a Smile be Your Umbrella", out of this world especially "Remember When", penned by the master himself. Honorable mention must go to "It Makes No Difference"! Bert, you were great...Bert, you STILL ARE great!!!:-)

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Excellent CD Recording of Mr. Kaempfert!!", April 11, 2001

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Alan Mayorca (Pensacola, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bye Bye Blues (Audio CD)

My dad and I really liked this Bert Kaempfert CD "Bye Bye Blues" a lot because it's popular, good sound quality, and best of all, Kaempfert's style on all 12 tracks from the original LP plus 7 bonus tracks including the original version of "Monte Carlo" from the LP "The Magic Music of Far Away Places". Moreover, Mr. Kaempfert gets a lot of ideas from Count Basie and Harry James. I think that this CD "Bye Bye Blues" is excellent, and my dad and I really felt confident with this good recording for a long time.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the essential Bert Kaempfert albums., May 2, 2004

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David Kenner (Fort Worth, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bye Bye Blues (Audio CD)

To own the best of Bert Kaempfert's classics there are several essential albums to acquire, all of which have been reissued by Taragon. To start with, you need their 16 track "Best Of" to get many of the classic Kaempfert singles such as "Wonderland By Night", "Afrikaan Beat", "Strangers In The Night", "The World We Knew" and the best songs from the "That Happy Feeling"/"Swingin' Safari" LP. Next, you need "Christmas Wonderland", for obvious reasons. Next, the two-fer of his two very best albums, "That Latin Feeling" and "Blue Midnight". Follow this with "The Magic Music Of Far Away Places" and finally, this incredible collection entitled "Bye Bye Blues". This album was released at the very peak of Kaempfert's popularity with the 1960s easy listening crowd and showcases the "Kaempfert sound" better than any of his other albums. All of Kaempfert's distinctive trademarks were in place for this album: the thumping bass in perfect synch with the drums, the haunting wordless chorus, and, of course, the trumpet of Fred Moch. These trademarks are evident throughout the title track, "Steady Does It", "It Makes No Difference", "Remember When" and many others on this disc. And no Kaempfert collection is complete without the exotic sounding "Tahitian Sunset". For the completist, it's too bad that Taragon stopped their series of Kaempfert reissues with "The Kaempfert Touch" because one more two-fer of the "Orange Colored Sky" and "Bert Kaempfert Now" LPs would have completed the entire charted output of the bandleader's U.S. catalog.