Charlie Kunz - Feller That Played The Pianner downloaden
1. Misty Islands Of The Highlands
2. Red Sails In The Sunset
3. Shadows In The Moonlight
4. The Army Fell For Little Isobel
5. Follow The Fleet medley – I’m Putting All My Eggs In One Basket/Let’s Face The Music And Dance/I’d Rather Lead A Band
6. I Breathe On Windows
7. I’m In A Dancing Mood
8. I’m Putting All My Eggs In One Basket
9. Let’s Face The Music And Dance
10. Life Begins When You’re In Love
11. Love Is A Dancing Thing
12. Piano medley – Across The Great Divide/The Night Is Young/Boo Hoo
13. Rhythm On The Range medley – Empty Saddles/I Can’t Escape From You/I’m An Old Cowhand
14. Swing Time medley – A Fine Romance/Never Gonna Dance/Waltz In Swing Time/The Way You Look Tonight/Pick Yourself Up/Bojangles Of Harlem
15. The Feller That Played The Pianner
16. Top Hat medley – Cheek To Cheek/The Piccolino/Top Hat White Tie And Tails/Isn’t This A Lovely Day/Cheek To Cheek
17. A Star Fell Out Of Heaven
18. Did Your Mother Come From Ireland
19. Everything Is Rhythm medley – Life Is Empty Without Love/Man Of My Dreams/Sky High Honeymoon
20. It’s Love Again medley – Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Fingers/It’s Love Again/Tony’s In Town
It is doubtful if any performer in history had the same kind of background as Charlie Kunz. Indeed, the biography of Charlie Kunz sounds so fantastic it could well have been the creation of a press agent but, to borrow a phrase from elsewhere, everything you are about to read is true. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania on 18th August 1896, Charlie learnt to play the piano from the age of six and formed his own band at sixteen. After America joined the First World War, Charlie spent his time working at an armaments factory making artillery shells, returning to music after the Armistice. He came to London in 1922 and formed another band, subsequently securing a number of residencies around the town, including the Embassy Club. By the time the Second World War broke out, Charlie was so popular Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels tried to discredit him by claiming Kunz was really a German and had gone to fight on the Russian front and, when that failed to turn Kunz’ audience against him, by claiming he was a German spy and that his piano playing during radio broadcasts contained morse code messages! No one believed it, of course, and after the war Charlie resumed his hugely successful career.