as well as the post-war period was over, the Germans evacuated in their cellars. They threw away what they had saved for a rainy day. For the good times they built bars in the vaults under their homes, hanging lights on the ceiling and tin plates on the walls, closed ball speakers to the stereo and started to have some fun after work and on weekends after work.
For Music James Last worried with his records. They were called “Non Stop Dancing” or “Rock Around With Me!” and played, what the world used to the Beatles and Bob Dylan, later of The Who and Abba and later TalkTalk and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Throughout the “Happy Sound”, which had been invented by James Last as German answer to the popular music. More plates were needed in the party room never than a few sheets of James Last.
On Tuesday, he is now died in Florida.
Who swings, marching not
The German dance music had to be reinvented again after the war. James Last led the Happy Sound back to Alfred Lion, who had been as Alfred Loew of the Swing Kids of Berlin, was expelled by the Nazis to New York, where he established the record company Blue Note and all jazz musicians who appeared with him in the studio , the statement issued: “It must schwing!” The Americans, who took care of after World War II by the Germans, who controlled the Jazz with and proclaimed: “Who swings, not marching.”
Even James Last history began in the war, two years before the Americans came, the Army Music School Bückeburg. The school was closed in April 1945. He was lucky not to be sent to the front, but home. He played in the clubs of the Americans and later for Radio Bremen, bass or piano, which was just released. Jazz, he played in the German All Stars with Max Greger and Paul Kuhn, and dance music he played with his orchestra or when NWDR when Peter Alexander or Vico Torriani sang. He was the arranger on the service in the north of Germany.
As the James Last Happy Sound mentioned for the first time, in 1965, he played with a band from NDR to his own tenth anniversary, the rock music of the time in public broadcasting style. As his way of making music suddenly had a name, was the rock music something for young people, a declaration of war on the elderly who were afraid of her. The first issue of “Non Stop Dancing” explained James Last: “If everything is stirred up in us, music can bring back peace in the souls.” That he did.
“My Music I”
The country has not only relaxes, had succeeded as the union and the Germans played football serene. It was already relaxed when records as “Hansi Mania”, “Voodoo Party” or “East Meets West” ran. Even abroad James Last was the cool German, whom they called Hansi, who brought back the Easy Listening with his 40-piece band from department stores and elevators in the concert halls. As London swingte, he joined permanently over on, like a welcome guest and Heard, as a grandfather of Krautpop.
Anyone who has ever had the good fortune, James Last personally encounter, met on a narrow man spoke softly, while never forgetting to smile. Since the sixties, he wore his hair longer, and since the seventies a mustache as trade unionists, teachers used to wear it. Since he played, the Federal Republic was not only the country’s booming industry captains in their dark suits. The Federal Republic was as friendly as James Last in his bright cocktail jacket be
It was a feast, as he led orchestras, bands and choirs. He standing in front of the musicians and the music danced them before, snapped his fingers, not on the one and the three as in the marches, but on the two and the four, and his hands showed at less than they inspired the musicians , Comparisons with the liberal style of the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler was not too far-fetched. “Karajan of the common man” has Friedrich Nowottny once called him on television when there was the e-culture yet. “My music I am”, James Last has itself always said, modest as it was, without being coquettish.
rubbing alcohol onto the dance floor
There was in Germany not well-run household without a plate of James Last. In the West (Polydor) and the East (Amiga). He was also the grandfather of curated Hitsamplers, the mixtapes and the playlist. In the music business it has experienced and survived everything. The cyclical crises, in which the respective recordings disappeared as key media, or if there is a world tour with 40 musicians could no longer pay.
He has even the nineties survived. The age of irony, as all Easy Listening found funny and the Happy Sound declared a cult and flares to its plates danced in the party rooms of their parents, which quite annoyed him. He did not know what was Easy Listening, then, he has patiently every jester importuned him so declares. And like a monk smiled.
When that was over, he poured himself a 70th birthday plate, which he called “Happy Birthday”. A masterpiece of post-irony. Frenchman Richard Clayderman was sitting at a grand piano and tossed his hair, the Polish panflutist Edward Simoni blew a Hirtenlied. The hip-hop trio Fettes Brot from Pinneberg rapped for String Orchestra: “Here you do not have to be cramped / Lubricates einfach’n tiny bit of rubbing alcohol / on your dancing shoes.” The three Hamburg listened to like old men, while James Last Happy the sound of the late 20th century was dedicated, the house beats, with which he his plays happily highlighted.
Never clap on the one and on the Three!
Ten years before he died, he was embraced by the world of pop music. His son Ron and Richard Darbyshire, the singer of the band Living in a Box, interpreted his pieces on the remix album “By4 Mixes: Elements of James Last” new. He himself took an irritating pensive plate on, “They Call Me Hansi”, which not only Jan Delay, Xavier Naidoo and Herbert Gronemeyer sang for him, but also the gangsta rapper RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan, and even the time since 30 years dead Elvis. For the cover lifted him from Anton Corbijn, a man in black. The reviews of the album read like obituaries.
James Last, however, was until the very end the liveliest concerts on his “The Last Tour” and reminded the Germans from . that the first and third clock be stressed only in military music, or the Musikantenstadl
If you wanted to James Last explain to the children of the digital age: He Pharrell was the former West Germany, East Germany and the unified Germany. A party does not need more to dance than a smartphone, Spotify -. And a few of his playlists
Hans load of as James Last, when the biographer be trusted, arrived in Bremen in 1929 to the world, was 86 years old.
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