Max Greger and His Orchestra - Lady Marmelade

THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN AND THEIR MUSIC MACHINES - 2
Laurens Hammond - (January 11, 1895 – July 3, 1973)
Laurens Hammond was an American engineer and inventor. His inventions include, most famously, the Hammond organ, the Hammond Clock, and the world's first polyphonic musical synthesizer, the Novachord. In 1933, he bought a used piano and proceeded to discard everything apart from the actual keyboard action. Using this piano keyboard as a controller, he was able to experiment with various sound generating methods until he found the best one—the tonewheel generator. The company's assistant treasurer, W. L. Lahey, was the organist at the nearby St. Christopher's Episcopal Church, and so Laurens consulted with him during the design process and sought feedback on the quality of the new instrument's sound. With all his previous manufacturing and engineering experience, the tonewheel generator was incredibly well engineered by the time the organ finally went into production. The number of tonewheel organs still in regular use is a testament in itself to the quality of the original design and execution of the product. Laurens Hammond was awarded the Franklin Institute's John Price Wetherill Medal in 1940 for the invention of the Hammond electric organ.

MAX GREGER
Max Greger is a German jazz musician, saxophonist, bandleader, arranger and conductor.
Together with another famous German bandleader, Hugo Strasser, Greger was a leading figure in the post-war German music scene. He founded his first (small) orchestra in 1948 and soon found himself touring through Germany and Europe.
In 1959, Max was allowed to do a tour in the then Soviet Union, thus becoming the first western band to get that opportunity.
From 1963 to 1977 Greger was under contract with the German broadcast company ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen) and he thus could be seen in numerous ZDF music productions (eg "Musik ist Trumpf")
Together with his Big Band, which he lead from 1955 to 1977, he recorded more than 3000 songs released on numerous albums.
Max Greger was awarded the "Bundesverdienstkreuz 1 Klasse" in 1987.

LADY MARMELADE
"Lady Marmalade" is a song written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan, and produced by Allen Toussaint and Vicki Wickham. It was released on August 3, 1974 as the first single from the album Nightbirds. recorded by the group "Labelle". The song was inspired by Crewe's first-hand observations of New Orleans.
After it was first recorded by Nolan's group Eleventh Hour in 1974, on Eleventh Hour's Greatest Hits LP, Labelle's producer Allen Toussaint decided to record it for Nightbirds.

MHO
Max Greger brings us this discohit from the seventies in his typical style, that's to say : with emphasis on the saxophone and in a strict dance tempo. Like all of his other recordings, this one too breathes quality from start to finish. Aah... those disco years.... now was that music or what ;-) ?! Enjoy !

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