Bert Kaempfert Wonderland By Night (1960, Stereo) 4 K

, 1 US Billboard Hot 100, 1 New Zealand Charts, 5 US Billboard Hot R B Sides. . Bert Kaempfert, along with Enoch Light and Lawrence Welk, was one of the premiere instrumental band leaders in the early 60s, today he is perhaps best known for his work with three of the biggest acts in the history of popular music: Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and the Beatles. Before the Germanborn multiinstrumentalist experienced success in America as an artist, Elvis recorded the Kaempfert song Wooden Heart for G. I. Blues. Kaempferts influence would continue with Wonderland By Night Long before George Martin worked with the Beatles, Kaempfert worked with them, producing the groups first session in 1961, in which the Beatles backed Tony Sheridan. The date yielded Sheridans My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean and When the Saints Go Marching In and the Beatles Aint She Sweet and Cry for a Shadow. (Those recordings, except for When the Saints Go Marching In, later turned up on the Beatles Anthol