The Hi-Fi Nightingale
Labels
- Decca (USA)
Occupation
- RIAS Dance Orchestra cond u by Werner Müller ( tracks 1-3, 5, 7)
- Orchestra Paul Durand ( Title 4, 8)
- Caterina Valente, all instruments ( Title 6 )
- Monaco Ball Orchestra (Orchestra Kurt Edelhagen ) ( titles 9-12)
Production
- Sigrid Volkmann ( entries 1-3, 5, 7 )
- Kurt Feltz ( Title 4, 6, 8-12 )
Studios
- Music hall in the Siemens Villa, Berlin- Lankwitz ( entries 1-3, 5, 7 )
- Congress Hall in the Exhibition Centre, Cologne -Deutz ( Title 4, 6, 8-12)
The Hi- Fi Nightingale is the first English-language music album of the singer Caterina Valente. In the factory there was a compilation of songs that were previously released on gramophone records and singles, including Valente's first U.S. Hits The Breeze and I, and Malagueña. The latter was the only one sung in German piece of the compilation that appeared in the United States as a LP on the Decca label in 1956. The notice published in the same year, 10 " LP Hi -Fi Nightingale by Polydor contained eight songs and a different selection.
Genesis
Parallel to Caterina Valente recording for the in-house record label Polydor sold the parent company of German gramophone over the German Contact husband Kurt Kinkele also licenses for German - and English-language recordings of the singer to the U.S. labels Brunswick Records, and after only one publication on Decca Records. While the title Malagueña in Germany comparatively poorly sold, the producer of the American television show The Colgate Comedy Hour from the record were enthusiastic and helped Valente 1955 for their first appearance on American television. The piece was sung in German in February of the same year at number 42 of the charts in the U.S. music magazine Cash Box. At the same time arose again in the music hall of the Siemens villa in Berlin - Lankwitz, the recording of the title The Breeze and I, who reached number 5 in the respective charts in the U.S. and number 13 in the UK.
Due to the international success to Decca in 1956 was prompted to an English-language LP under the title The Hi- Fi Nightingale surrendered ( Decca DL 8203 ). In addition to Malagueña and The Breeze and I, much of the previously published English title Valente was on the compilation. These included jazz and swing standards by Georges Auric, Nacio Herb Brown, Cole Porter and others, and German pieces originally written by Heinz Gietz and Kurt Feltz. In the same year came with Caterina Olé! and Plenty Valente! the first concept albums of the entertainer.