Nino Tempo

Nino Tempo ( born January 6, 1937 in Niagara Falls, New York; actually Antonino Lo Tempio) is an American pop and jazz musician and actor.

Life and work

Tempo learned clarinet and tenor saxophone as a child in high school. Age of seven, he performed with Benny Goodman on television and later in films such as The Story of GI Joe (1945 ) Scandals (1945 ) or The Red Pony. He then worked as a studio musician and arranger for Frank Sinatra, Eydie Gormé, Steve Lawrence, and Maynard Ferguson, but continued to pursue the acting career with a starring role in The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and further appearances in The Girl Can not Help It ( 1956). In 1958 he started a solo career as a musician. He recorded a first album Rock & Roll Beach Party, which published Liberty Records; The Single Girlfriends 15 also appeared in 1958 with RCA Victor; next year followed Ding- A- Ling.

In 1959 he wrote Teach Me Tiger, with his sister April Stevens ( Carol Lo Tempio actually ) had a hit. Together with his sister April Stevens had the saxophonist in 1963 with Deep Purple a number-one hit in the U.S. singles charts. Their interpretation was awarded a Grammy in 1964.

Between 1962 and 1964 many former top hits from the 1920s and 1930s by Tempo and Stevens fewer have been added, some of the recordings could be placed in the U.S. charts, including Whispering, first a hit by Paul Whiteman from the year 1920. successful were Stardust and Tea for Two, a hit for Marion Harris from 1925.

In the second half of the 1960s Tempo and Stevens arrive with All Strung Out and I Can not Go On Livin 'Baby Without You two minor hits. 1973, both came with Put It Where You Want It one more time in the charts.

In the same year pace had his first solo hit with Sister James. More singles followed in 1974, as his second album Come See Me ' Round Midnight, but were not commercially successful. His sister had with their shared composition Wake Up and Love Me 1974 another hit, the 1975 joint admissions You Turn Me On followed, which made ​​it into the Easy Listening charts. In the same year he participated in John Lennon's album Rock ' n' Roll. 1979 played a pace another single with Hooked on Young Stuff and also wrote three numbers for the soundtrack of The Idolmaker, who came into the charts in December 1980. After playing on the Trauuergottesdiens for Nesuhi Ertegun, he was rediscovered as a jazz saxophonist and recorded three albums for Atlantic Records on: Tenor Saxophone (1990 ), Nino ( 1992) and Live at Cicada (1995).

Lexical entry

• Jürgen Wölfer, Encyclopedia of Jazz Vienna 1999 ISBN 3-85445-164-4 (2nd Edition)