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Traces Of Love / The Kaempfert Touch

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I really loved Traces by Kaempfert. His music is so majestic
that you want to see it live. If you love Kaempfert, you will
love Traces. A magical journey through a music wonderland!

It's really interesting how musical tastes contrast, especially with this CD. Frankly, Bert's rendition of "Someday We'll Be Together" is what drew me to this collection when it was only an LP. The great majority of the songs are very well done and constitute real listening pleasure. His treatments of "Traces" and "Something" are hauntingly beautiful. This collection rests in my top five Kaempfert collections of all time.

There is nothing overly sensational about this Kaempfert outing, nor is there anything substandard. Kaempfert's sound is workman like and solid on many of these recordings, such as Raindrops, Jean, Traces and Games People Play. Less than good is a reworking of the Supreme's Someday We'll Be Together. As with most of Kaempfert's arrangements trumpets are front and center. Kaempfert's music, more so than Percy Faith's, who usually stamps his easy listening reworkings of 60s materials with lush strings, sounds like what elevators used to feature years ago.