Энгельберт Хампердинк - The Last Waltz - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Engelbert Humperdinck.

Biography: Singer Engelbert Humperdinck (real name Arnold George Dorsey) was born on May 2, 1936 in India. In the 50s, this pop singer performed under the name Jerry Dorsey, and managed to achieve some success in Great Britain and Ireland. He starred in the television series "Oh Boy" and recorded a pretty good single "I`ll Never Fall In Love Again". In 1963, with the advent of the rock era, Engelbert Humperdinck successfully reoriented himself to a new audience, and by 1967 he and his colleague Tom Jones were already considered the recognized leaders of the “manly pop song”, which often featured the hard riffs characteristic of rock, clear rhythmic "square" and accented refrain. At the peak of The Beatles' popularity, Engelbert Humperdinck recorded the single "Release Me" (1967), the circulation of which exceeded 2 million in record time, and the song itself stayed at the top of the British charts for five weeks, pushing aside the Beatles' single "Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields" to second place. At the same time, Humperdinck's song "There Goes My Everything" became second in the English hit parade, and a few months later the single "The Last Waltz" again topped the charts - in England alone, the circulation of this single reached 1 million. Thus, in the year when England was struck by the fashion for psychedelic rock, Engelbert Humperdinck became the highest paid and most commercially successful English singer, overtaking Tom Jones in these indicators. In the 70s, Humperdinck no longer had such success, but the commercial and creative foundation created allowed him to live without thinking about his daily bread. The period of inactivity ended only in 1987, when Humperdinck released a new album, "Remember I Love You". In 1990, statistics buffs calculated that Engelbert Humperdinck had 59 gold albums, 18 platinum albums and almost 10 Grammy awards in the “Best Song of the Year” category. In the spring of 1997, Humperdinck went on tour in Russia, but here this event did not have any resonance, unlike, for example, a tour in the USA in the winter of the same year, when the press called Humperdinck's concerts "the best live work since Frank Sinatra was on peak form."

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