20 Jahre Karl Schmidt Big Band is a 2006 instrumental dance-music album with 28 source-listed recordings. The programme combines Standard and Latin dances with discofox and social foxtrot, giving it a broader social-dance scope than a collection arranged around one competitive dance group.
The opening sequence moves from She Bangs as cha cha to Michelle as slowfox, Brueggen Street Parade as quickstep, Let’s Get Loud as cha cha and I Saved the World Today as rumba. Jubileu adds samba. This mixed sequence is part of the album’s original presentation: the dances are interleaved rather than reorganised into new rhythm blocks.
All supplied entries credit Karl Schmidt Big Band and are classified as instrumental orchestral music. The programme also includes a three-highlight paso doble, El Bailador, followed near the end by Boogie Fever and the discofox Something Happened on the Way to Heaven. A Just a Gigolo / I Ain’t Got Nobody medley closes the album as one source entry.
For someone selecting music for a varied social ballroom session, the track-by-track dance and tempo labels help identify a suitable rhythm within the mixed running order. The orchestral, instrumental presentation gives the album a consistent performance credit while the song choices provide variety. The complete list retains all titles, medley information, dance notation and individual playing times.
Track List
- 1 | She Bangs (Cha Cha 32) | 3:46
- 2 | Michelle (Slowfox 29) | 3:12
- 3 | Brueggen Street Parade (Quickstep 50) | 3:05
- 4 | Let's Get Loud (Cha Cha 31) | 3:36
- 5 | I Saved The World Today (Rumba 26) | 4:06
- 6 | Jubileu (Samba 51) | 3:26
- 7 | I Need To Know (Cha Cha 31) | 3:13
- 8 | And I Love Her (Rumba 26) | 3:44
- 9 | American Patrol (Social Foxtrot 40) | 3:47
- 10 | Tango Madonna (Tango 32) | 3:32
- 11 | Words Forbidden (from 'The Merry Widow') (Viennese Waltz 59) | 3:07
- 12 | Quicksilver (Quickstep 50) | 3:19
- 13 | Für Dich (Slowfox 29) | 3:51
- 14 | Little Brown Jug (Jive 43) | 3:06
- 15 | Scarborough Fair (Slow Waltz 29) | 3:14
- 16 | That's the Way (I Like It) (Discofox 27) | 3:20
- 17 | Irgendwann (Slow Waltz 30) | 3:00
- 18 | Blue Tango (Tango 33) | 2:34
- 19 | An Der Schönen Blauen Donau (Viennese Waltz 60) | 3:09
- 20 | C'est Si Bon (Slowfox 30) | 3:03
- 21 | Dancing Shoes (Quickstep 52) | 2:49
- 22 | On The Beach (Cha Cha 32) | 3:27
- 23 | Love For Sale (from 'The New Yorkers') (Samba 52) | 2:43
- 24 | Goldeneye (from James Bond 'Goldeneye') (Rumba 27) | 3:10
- 25 | El Bailador ('Espana Cani' Phrasing, 3 Highlights) (Paso Doble 62) | 2:00
- 26 | Boogie Fever (Jive 44) | 3:00
- 27 | Something Happened On The Way To Heaven (Discofox 30) | 3:11
- 28 | Just A Gigolo, I Ain't Got Nobody (Jive 34) | 3:53
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