Bert Kaempfert
The Bert Kaempfert Decca Collection collects 24 of the German composer-bandleader's American LPs originally released in the 1960s and 1970s, including the worldwide CD debut of Pete Fountain Plays Bert Kaempfert, plus over 40 bonus tracks. Kaempfert's recording home was Polydor Records, but as that catalogue has been extensively addressed on numerous reissues around the world, the U.S. Decca releases were chosen for this box. (The repertoire does overlap, as the European albums were the basis of the American releases.) Still, longtime collectors may have the U.S. albums courtesy of Taragon Records; the sadly-now-defunct label reissued and expanded most of Kaempfert's Decca albums on CD in the mid- to late 1990s. If you missed out on that long out-of-print series, this appears to be convenient, (almost) one-stop shopping for these delightful instrumental LPs from the composer of "L.O.V.E." and "Strangers in the Night."