That Happy Feeling

Bert Kaempfert | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (July 29, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Taragon
• ASIN: B000003H78
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #512,546 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. That Happy Feeling

2. A Swingin' Safari

3. Market Day

4. Take Me

5. Similau

6. Zambesi

7. Happy Trumpeter (Magic Trumpet)

8. Tootie Flutie

9. Wimoweh

10. Sunday in Madrid

11. Black Beauty

12. Skokiaan (South African Song)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bert Kaempfert's best album, March 14, 2004

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Gene DeSantis (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: That Happy Feeling (Audio CD)

Recorded in '61 and '62, this album (unlike most Kaempferts) was first issued on American Decca, and then several months later on the home Polydor marque (as "A Swingin' Safari" and with the replacement of "Wimoweh" with "Afrikaan Beat" and a different running order). It probably established Kaempfert in the states as much as anything; Goodson and Todman's use of "Safari" as the original "Match Game" theme helped too. So does the album's sprightly, lively tone, far sprightlier than the subsequent Kaempferts, which got weighted down with "big" arrangements and the dreaded padoom-padoom of the rhythm section. Despite the album's liberal and often palpable African influence that German engineering's never far from the surface -- especially in "Wimoweh", which summons up memories of Leni Riefenstahl; The Tokens this isn't. Still these are all early and excellent examples of what would soon be called "world music," and this is by far Kaempfert's best and most entertaining recording.

Note: I suspect one reason the CD got deleted was because Taragon, the little reissue label, inexplicably catalogued it as a Christmas album.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He was The Beatles first producer!, November 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: That Happy Feeling (Audio CD)

Bert Kaempfert was the first person to produce The Beatles. I love his music. He was one of the few Germans to find an international audience. He had a very distinctive, bouncy sound. This is a great album-the song "That happy feeling" says it all. How sad that he died in his fities. I miss him!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Entertaining, June 27, 2000

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Stanton Allen (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: That Happy Feeling (Audio CD)

My parents had Bert Kaempfert's albums when I was growing up. "That Happy Feeling" was one of my favorites. Very special and dear to my heart.