2-CD Digipak (4-sided) with 64 page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 113 minutes.

Recordings from the past 45 years - Billy Ramsey with jazz combos and big bands. (Almost) all songs written bei Bill Ramsey - of course re-printed in the booklet. Back-up musicians and arrangers: Dieter Reith, Kurt Edelhagen, Toots Thielemans, and Peter Herbolzheimer, a. o.
Contains two brandnew recordings from 2016!
Liner notes, in German, written bei TV-show host, entertainer, and performer G?tz Alsmann.

In April 2016, Bill Ramsey will celebrate his 85th birthday. Bill was born in Cincinnatti, Ohio, in 1931. While serving his time in the United States Airforce in Germany, he performed his special blend of jazz, swing,and blues in jazz clubs like the ?Jazzkeller' in Franfurt/Main, Germany. After signing with Polydor Records in 1958, Bill recorded a string of popular German Schlager songs, like Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett und Souvenirs Souvenirs.

But whenever there was an opportunity to perform, he acted out his passion for African-American music singing jazz, backed by German big bands and radio orchestras for almost each and every national public radio station in this country. This collection contains some of his greatest big band jazz recordings from the past five decades.

Track Listing

• If I Had A Hammer
• Something Lingers
• It's The Little Things That Count
• Get It Together
• In The Eyes Of Children
• The Old Ones
• Old Roads
• Take Another Step
• Getting' Back To Swing
• If There's Anything That I Can Do
• What You Gonna Do Now Girl
• Fat Man
• I'd Rather Be A Gambler
• Some Mornin's
• Lady
• Understand

• True Blue
• When I See You
• The Man Of The People
• You Can Find It
• Flea Market
• I Got To Follow You
• Tides
• Big Fat Mama (2)
• What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You
• Real Life Man
• Sunshine On The Mountain
• Big Band Boogie
• Your Own Choice
• Shadows And Rain
• Out Of Sight Out Of Mind
• This Time It's Your Fault

Additional Details

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 112 mins

Release Date: 03/24/16

UPC: 5397102174278