Helmut Zacharias

The "forgotten" series from NOW has been great. We have now reached the 1960s and there are many forgotten gems on here. But they do say that if you can remember the 60's you weren't there. There are some, I must admit, I have never heard of and most of this seems a bit middle of the road and listening today it is clean quite how and why The Beatles had such a massive impact.

Jonny Teupenonny Teupen was a German harpist and composer of modern jazz and easy listening. Teupen studied with Max Saal at the Academic University of Music Berlin. After stints at the Theater des Volkes and the State Opera Unter den Linden, he moved to the NWDR in 1949, where he became solo harpist of what is now the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, of which he was a member until 1985. In addition, he could also be heard in WDR productions with Paul Kuhn and Helmut Zacharias. The musical short film “Young Man with a Harp” was built around him in 1961. He recorded several jazz-oriented albums under his own name (especially for MPS) and also composed for the film (Mini Killers, 1969). In the 1960s and early 1970s he was known in Germany as "Harpist No. 1". He also worked under the pseudonym Jean-Pierre Valmer.

James Last was a German big-band leader with a large fan base in Europe, although he never had a comparable following in the United States. Last's trademark was arranging pop hits in a big-band style; his series of "party albums" became equally well-known. Over the course of his career, he sold well over 50 million albums…

Compilation CD's. Those Classic Golden Years - An Essential collection the second half of the sixties and the early seventies…