I remember being a kid in 1965 Saskatchewan, Canada, winter time. Getting up for school with -40 F temps outside and hearing this great tune every morning. I could never have imagined that just 15 years later I’d be playing trombone for Horst in West Berlin and naturally, being his signature tune playing Schwartzwaldfahrt in its many variations often. He was the best music director ever, seconded only by Al Martino with whom I had the pleasure to work in 1994, Frankfurt, Germany.
Love the song and that fantastic sound system. Sparkly mid-century speakers and shiny knobs. Portable sound system and great vinyl = match made in heaven.
Just had this played at the Commitment for my grandads Cremation, (God rest his Sole) He absolutely loved Jankowski And this song was one of his favourite. Was a truly lovely way to send him on his travels. RIP Ian Richard Williams ⚰️❤️💔
I was 8 years old in 1965 and one of my very favorite things to do then was to watch records spin as they played. I still love to do that....thanks for the fun! Great song too!!!
Yes, friends, that was number 1 in The Goodies Hit Parade, and now number 2 and, incidentally, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 ..... "A Walk in the Black Forest"
I haven't heard this in years....decades!!!.....one of those songs heard on the car's AM radios while rolling down the road during a family's weekend drive to view New England's autumnal foliage. Thanks for posting this lovely little tune.
The Goodies brought me here too - in 2017! I'd not heard of this song until they plugged it in one of their funniest episodes. Pity that the episode now seems to have been removed from RUclips (copyright violation, perhaps?)
I grew up listening to this type of music so I enjoy it. When I was little our nursery worker had a stereo and played this music for us during nap time. She had speakers in her living room that were piped downstairs to the part where the children were. This music comforted me many a day.
This is without a doubt one of my all time favorites. I'm 64 now but in 1965 I was all of 17 years old. This brings back a flood of great memories. Thanks Mr. Jankowski......looking forward to your next super hit. "Your the man"!!!!!!!
For me,this melody is full of memories,when 40 years ago,my parents and I were travelling by car around in the black forest and the radio plays this song!I guess,it was an sunny sunday&everthing fits!!_So much thanks for posting!!!Thank You!
was my summer holiday song,my summer holiday consisted of a walk and a swim in loch Leven , fantastic memories and fantastic times ,I think I was 6 or 7 when this come out and to this day when I hear this wonderful tune it brings back so many happy memories,brilliant tune many thanks
I can't believe I just searched A Walk In The Black Forest and got my wish as I remember it. LOL, now for more oldies to fill my oldie file up. Good on you btw.
You hit the nail on the head! This was probably the number one "elevator music" song of all times. I would hear it 10 times a day when it first came out. Even the AM rock stations played it! This was summer of 1965.
This song always takes me back to my scout troop meeting in the manager's office of Thrifty Foods in '68. My troop was run by adults who didn't have much time or expense for us so we happened to be meeting wherever we could. I remember walking up those stairs and marveling at the suspended ceiling, I'd never seen one and I also noticed the multitude of speakers wired into that ceiling and hearing this tune echo plink plinking throughout the store, I thought it was so cool I never forgot it.
I played for Mr. Jankowski in 1980 with RIAS Berlin. He was one of the finest men I’ve worked for spanning a 40+ year career. Generous, considerate and humble. A gentleman of the highest order.
WOW! I am almost sure that I had this very same stereo set in my household from about 1966 to the early 1970's! If I recall ours was an RCA Victor model. I remember so very clearly the speakers that were attached to the main unit, as shown in the video above. The turntable folded up into the main section, and the speakers swung in, allowing the unit to be carried, as shown by the handle in the center, like a suit case. These speakers were detachable, for greater fidelity range. The one problem we had with our unit was with the tone arm. It never dropped onto the records properly; it always missed the record completely. Horst Jankowski's " A walk in the black forest" from 1965 is the music that was played on many of these units, for sure, and is one of my favorites, indeed!
How can anyone not love a walk in the black Forrest , as a four year old this was my favourite tune on the bbc until they played chuck berry and then my soul was lost to rock and roll,but the walk still has an ingrained place in my heart!
Wow, this made me weep a bit. I miss those happy years and my family so much. Really brings back great memories of sweeter, simpler days. Thank you for posting this.
I agree with both of you. Where did it all go...? I ain't got a shred of doubt I love this type of music even more now than I did back then. I sure would like to thank and shake hands with the person (s) that put this music on RUclips. I don't know what we'd do without. ❤️
I had been looking for this tune for a very long time. Didn't know the name, just heard the melody in my head. I found it here and now I know. More great memories of being 10 years old in '65. Thanks for posting!!!
Thanks for posting, I love this song! Intrumentals were the thing in the day and Horst Jankowski was king on this beautiful song. Happy sound we all need more of!
What memories this brings! When I was 13 (13!) I used to play this over and over. My sister thot I was so odd that I loved this tune. I didn't know it was considered jazzy. I just knew I loved it. And NOLA was the flip side, that I remember. Thanks for the memories.
Enjoyed both audio and video immensely. Perfect! I have this record on a 45 and no way to spin it. I miss my Radio Shack system with the fold-down turntable. Thank you so much!
What an enormous hit in 1965! Even the R&R radio stations played it every hour or so, comparable to the eternal "A Summer Place". This music trancends time and taste. Thank you!!
I ❤❤❤❤❤ the background music played by musicians employed into a symphony orchestra 🎼🎵🎧🎙️🎶🎹🎸🎻. The stereophonic sound is of the time-honoured, and of the old-school musical traditions ❤❤❤❤❤.
v useful - couldn't remember the tune while in the black forest last week - also refreshing to see the period turntable and not any more trees lovely though they are.
The Summer of 1965...Family picnic, roasted corn on the cob, grilled brats, and coasting down in the wagon in Estabrook park....This song brings back happy memories!!!
My adopted father was Erwin Krumrey. From what I have learned on ancestry.com, the Krumrey's, or Krumrei's came to Kansas in the mid 19th century from the Black Forest. Thank you for this personal flashback.
I all many types of music, NOT hard rock, heavy metal, or rap, but to each their own. But I do like this type of music.. but I did not know the title. so I thought what is this going to be.. and then as it played I of course knew it. I had not heard this song in ages. thanks for the upload :)
Very nice. Thanks for posting this. I was a kid when this came out, and had been taking piano lessons for 4 years. I still want to try to play it. Just wish it were on CD. Can't find it on CD. A true classic!
For all you musicians, this song has probably the ultimate hemiola ever written. Screws with my mind every time I hear it. Herb Alpert recorded a great version around the same time.
Wonderful song ! The song and the turn player reminded me of my childhood . Thank - you . Horst Jankowski also performed a beautiful version of " Claire de Lune " .
thank you so much for uploading this, it reminds me of my childhood, love the record player don't think the next generation will ever understand the anticipation and excitement as the needle hits the record while you wait for the song to begin
I can't tell you how many times I heard this in the dentist office in the 1960's, Washington DC (station WGAY). Despite the many lectures from my dentist, I still love this song. It is a classic.
WGAY "Easy listening" music broadcast from the World building in Silver Spring Maryland. I remember this and "Syncopated Clock" at the start of Matinee at One on Sunday afternoons from the Shady Grove Music Fair.
You can find the Horst Jankowski version on a CD called "Vintage Instrumentals" Volume 2. I got it from the library. I agree it is a happy memory song from my child hood!
Reminds me of our folks 'VM' / Voice of Music Mono Hi-Fi in our living room in Shorewood, WI., in the 50's and 60's. My Dad would play his records on a Summer day loud enough so we could hear it in the backyard. I had my own record player when I was 18 in 1968, Kenwood Stereo complete with a Gerard turntable and 6-1/2" 'suspended 2-way speakers. I was such a record addict I would spin the turntable by hand up to well over 100rpm so it would change the records faster - the 'tone arm' as they called it in those days would almost become a blur yanking itself back from the end of the record so fast and then dropping itself onto the beginning of the next record, almost bouncing off the record in the process. Remember 'magnetic vs. ceramic cartridges? My Bro had a suitcase player with a ceramic cartridge that totally lacked the bass that the magnetic cartridges could produce.
I love the design of that phonograph, I had several like that as a child but not as stylish. The shape of the speaker and the little sparkles in the grill cloth!
Anyone else here from belinda???
Yup haha
Yeah lol
Trying to imagine a "sexy" version
I thought there'd be words?!
my auntie is sick
I remember being a kid in 1965 Saskatchewan, Canada, winter time. Getting up for school with -40 F temps outside and hearing this great tune every morning. I could never have imagined that just 15 years later I’d be playing trombone for Horst in West Berlin and naturally, being his signature tune playing Schwartzwaldfahrt in its many variations often. He was the best music director ever, seconded only by Al Martino with whom I had the pleasure to work in 1994, Frankfurt, Germany.
That's a great 'short story'. Ah...Life many 'ironies'. Nice.
I remember hearing this tune on my mother's favorite radio station, when I was little. I loved it then, and still do! Memories of my mommy.
Love the song and that fantastic sound system. Sparkly mid-century speakers and shiny knobs. Portable sound system and great vinyl = match made in heaven.
Just had this played at the Commitment for my grandads Cremation, (God rest his Sole)
He absolutely loved Jankowski
And this song was one of his favourite.
Was a truly lovely way to send him on his travels.
RIP Ian Richard Williams ⚰️❤️💔
Sole? SOLE? You killed his pet flat fish?
I was 8 years old in 1965 and one of my very favorite things to do then was to watch records spin as they played. I still love to do that....thanks for the fun! Great song too!!!
Rocky Flintsone is one weird guy
Yes, friends, that was number 1 in The Goodies Hit Parade, and now number 2 and, incidentally, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 ..... "A Walk in the Black Forest"
same reason I'm revisiting it
I haven't heard this in years....decades!!!.....one of those songs heard on the car's AM radios while rolling down the road during a family's weekend drive to view New England's autumnal foliage. Thanks for posting this lovely little tune.
The Goodies brought me here. In 2015!
The Goodies brought me here too - in 2017! I'd not heard of this song until they plugged it in one of their funniest episodes. Pity that the episode now seems to have been removed from RUclips (copyright violation, perhaps?)
The episode "Radio Goodies" is available on DVD.
I have not heard this in years, thanks for posting. This is one that I will listen to on a daily basis. Tim
I grew up listening to this type of music so I enjoy it. When I was little our nursery worker had a stereo and played this music for us during nap time. She had speakers in her living room that were piped downstairs to the part where the children were. This music comforted me many a day.
in memory of TIm Brooke Taylor.... one of my favourite Goodies episodes....!!!!
This has to be the ultimate grocery store music in the ‘60’s.
This is without a doubt one of my all time favorites. I'm 64 now but in 1965 I was all of 17 years old. This brings back a flood of great memories. Thanks Mr. Jankowski......looking forward to your next super hit. "Your the man"!!!!!!!
True talented musicians playing beautifully composed music
Sorry there's nothing like it today
For me,this melody is full of memories,when 40 years ago,my parents and I were travelling by car around in the black forest and the radio plays this song!I guess,it was an sunny sunday&everthing fits!!_So much thanks for posting!!!Thank You!
I was born in 1964 and definitely remember this tune from my childhood. Thank you Rocky Flintstone! :-)
was my summer holiday song,my summer holiday consisted of a walk and a swim in loch Leven , fantastic memories and fantastic times ,I think I was 6 or 7 when this come out and to this day when I hear this wonderful tune it brings back so many happy memories,brilliant tune many thanks
i was 8 .. just brings back great times in the 60`s as a kid!!!
I was 9 and remember listening to it on the radio in my dads 61 Chevy. Ir was summer and it brings back great memories being a kid.
I remember this from when I was a kid. We had a pink radio on the kitchen table blasting all day long.
You can't imagine the memories - and nostalgia - tthis song has for me. Thanks so much for posting!
beautiful.... b.e.a.u.t.i.f.u.l.... thank you very much for uploading this divine song! gretz from Australia!
OMG. I was prepared for a nice memory when I thought of this song and looked it up, but this is the exact record player my brother had! How very cool
I can't believe I just searched A Walk In The Black Forest and got my wish as I remember it.
LOL, now for more oldies to fill my oldie file up.
Good on you btw.
I was a senior in HS when this came out. A lot of memories. The drive in Theater and the beach movies and etc.
You hit the nail on the head! This was probably the number one "elevator music" song of all times. I would hear it 10 times a day when it first came out. Even the AM rock stations played it! This was summer of 1965.
HaHa! Visions of Graeme Garden of The Goodies playing this on his pirate radio station! Love this, thanks for playing it for us!
Must be nearly 50 years since I heard this, still sounds great.Thanks a million
This song always takes me back to my scout troop meeting in the manager's office
of Thrifty Foods in '68. My troop was run by adults who didn't have much time or expense for us so we happened to be meeting wherever we could. I remember walking up those stairs and marveling at the suspended ceiling, I'd never seen one and I also noticed the multitude of speakers wired into that ceiling and hearing this tune echo
plink plinking throughout the store, I thought it was so cool I never forgot it.
This song reminds me of my Dad. Thanks!
I played for Mr. Jankowski in 1980 with RIAS Berlin. He was one of the finest men I’ve worked for spanning a 40+ year career. Generous, considerate and humble. A gentleman of the highest order.
I heard this song in a cafe scene in a Perry Mason episode and I've been going crazy trying to identify it. I remember it from childhood, too. Thanks!
Forgot all about this tune!! Loved it...still do!! Thanks for posting!!
WOW! I am almost sure that I had this very same stereo set in my household from about 1966 to the early 1970's! If I recall ours was an RCA Victor model. I remember so very clearly the speakers that were attached to the main unit, as shown in the video above. The turntable folded up into the main section, and the speakers swung in, allowing the unit to be carried, as shown by the handle in the center, like a suit case. These speakers were detachable, for greater fidelity range. The one problem we had with our unit was with the tone arm. It never dropped onto the records properly; it always missed the record completely. Horst Jankowski's " A walk in the black forest" from 1965 is the music that was played on many of these units, for sure, and is one of my favorites, indeed!
How can anyone not love a walk in the black Forrest , as a four year old this was my favourite tune on the bbc until they played chuck berry and then my soul was lost to rock and roll,but the walk still has an ingrained place in my heart!
Wow, this made me weep a bit. I miss those happy years and my family so much. Really brings back great memories of sweeter, simpler days. Thank you for posting this.
I agree with you so very much. I'm sure that this song and many other instrumentals like this do evoke many memories of a lovelier time in our lives.
I agree with both of you.
Where did it all go...?
I ain't got a shred of doubt
I love this type of music even
more now than I did back then.
I sure would like to thank and shake hands with the person (s)
that put this music on RUclips.
I don't know what we'd do without. ❤️
Fantastic song ,tune , bravo.🥰
Love this song and the memories of 1965 that it brings. Thanks for sharing it with us.
this brings pack pleasant memories when i was in the navy in Norfolk, Va.Thanks...
I had been looking for this tune for a very long time. Didn't know the name, just heard the melody in my head. I found it here and now I know. More great memories of being 10 years old in '65. Thanks for posting!!!
Thanks for posting, I love this song! Intrumentals were the thing in the day and Horst Jankowski was king on this beautiful song. Happy sound we all need more of!
What memories this brings!
When I was 13 (13!) I used to play this over and over. My sister thot I was so odd that I loved this tune. I didn't know it was considered jazzy. I just knew I loved it. And NOLA was the flip side, that I remember.
Thanks for the memories.
~ Fabulous and still brilliant and fresh from 1965 to 2018. Thank you for the fun visuals!! Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
Yes, thanks for the memories! I thought I was the only one who loved this cheery music. A great time capsule!
Enjoyed both audio and video immensely. Perfect! I have this record on a 45 and no way to spin it. I miss my Radio Shack system with the fold-down turntable. Thank you so much!
never tire of the smooth grrove
Lovely rendition that is a Classic, takes you down memory lane. Your 78 still sounds great.
Thank you. It brings back wonderful memories. I learned to play it on piano when I was 12
I can't say it enough times - I love this song, and it brings back such happy memories as a kid in the 60's! Thanks so much for posting!
Lovely its so nice to hear the old tunes again
What an enormous hit in 1965! Even the R&R radio stations played it every hour or so, comparable to the eternal "A Summer Place". This music trancends time and taste. Thank you!!
I ❤❤❤❤❤ the background music played by musicians employed into a symphony orchestra 🎼🎵🎧🎙️🎶🎹🎸🎻. The stereophonic sound is of the time-honoured, and of the old-school musical traditions ❤❤❤❤❤.
This used to play all the time on the radio when I was a kid> Brings back some great memories! It was one of my mom's favorites/
v useful - couldn't remember the tune while in the black forest last week - also refreshing to see the period turntable and not any more trees lovely though they are.
If you leave the bongos out over night, and they are still there in the morning, it must be love !
The Summer of 1965...Family picnic, roasted corn on the cob, grilled brats, and coasting down in the wagon in Estabrook park....This song brings back happy memories!!!
Thank you very much for uploading this wonderful track. Jankowski's work is terrific.
Tolle Erinnerung an die Kindheit. Da war ich 4 Jahre alt. Grüße aus Berlin Zehlendorf.
17 who didn't like it?!?! How you can not like this song?
+DebandJim4life they must be dead !
First record I ever bought with my own money!!
The first record I bought was "Asshole" by Eminem, and I have to say, this song pales in comparison to it.
My adopted father was Erwin Krumrey. From what I have learned on ancestry.com, the Krumrey's, or Krumrei's came to Kansas in the mid 19th century from the Black Forest. Thank you for this personal flashback.
I looked on the top 100 songs of 1965 and knew them all, except this one !!
Am 73 plus now...things that happened in 1970 are more vivid than my last meal.
I all many types of music, NOT hard rock, heavy metal, or rap, but to each their own. But I do like this type of music.. but I did not know the title. so I thought what is this going to be.. and then as it played I of course knew it. I had not heard this song in ages. thanks for the upload :)
AND NOW... A walk in the black forest
Someone was a listener of "Radio Goodies" (boom)
I worked in a grocery store in the late 70s and early 80s. This was one of the songs I remember from the Musak.
Thank you sir for this moment (in time)
For sharing (this moment in time) 😊😊✨✨✨🪐
This is a beautiful song and I have been trying to find it for years.
A Better Time...thanks for the memories!
Very nice. Thanks for posting this. I was a kid when this came out, and had been taking piano lessons for 4 years. I still want to try to play it. Just wish it were on CD. Can't find it on CD. A true classic!
For all you musicians, this song has probably the ultimate hemiola ever written. Screws with my mind every time I hear it. Herb Alpert recorded a great version around the same time.
Was it really from around the same time? Alpert's sounds 20 years older .. I guess it's the quality of the recording that makes me believe that..
Takes me back to learning Ballroom dancing. The quickstep, practised to this so many times in my youth.
In your youth? Dirty old man!!!
Wonderful song ! The song and the turn player reminded me of my childhood . Thank - you . Horst Jankowski also performed a beautiful version of " Claire de Lune " .
Well, I think you have some of the best videos on here. You're always cool, calm and collected..
Absolutely fabulous -
Wonderful video,wonderful music and you have a great channel.
thank you so much for uploading this, it reminds me of my childhood, love the record player don't think the next generation will ever understand the anticipation and excitement as the needle hits the record while you wait for the song to begin
I can't tell you how many times I heard this in the dentist office in the 1960's, Washington DC (station WGAY). Despite the many lectures from my dentist, I still love this song. It is a classic.
WGAY "Easy listening" music broadcast from the World building in Silver Spring Maryland. I remember this and "Syncopated Clock" at the start of Matinee at One on Sunday afternoons from the Shady Grove Music Fair.
This song makes me think of an aluminum Christmas tree and decorating it in all red or blue ornaments.
Don't forget the rotating color spotlight. My grandma had one of these...
@@jrs0007 Yes, my neighbor had one of those...always felt like I was in a dept. store :)
@@fscap811 lol
this piece of music makes you feel happy
Awesome video! Awesome music!
I did not live through the 60s, but I know that I would not give up my child days of the 80s and 90s for nothing either.
Brilliant - well done and thanks for post posting
Radio Goooooooodddddiiiieeeeeeeeess!
Boom
The Goodies brought me here.
This was number one in Australia on the day I was born. But it mostly reminds me of the goodies. Nice stereo by the way.
You can find the Horst Jankowski version on a CD called "Vintage Instrumentals" Volume 2.
I got it from the library. I agree it is a happy memory song from my child hood!
My mom and dad used to have a RCA Hi-Fi record player just like this one when I was a little boy in the 1970's!
Reminds me of our folks 'VM' / Voice of Music Mono Hi-Fi in our living room in Shorewood, WI., in the 50's and 60's. My Dad would play his records on a Summer day loud enough so we could hear it in the backyard. I had my own record player when I was 18 in 1968, Kenwood Stereo complete with a Gerard turntable and 6-1/2" 'suspended 2-way speakers. I was such a record addict I would spin the turntable by hand up to well over 100rpm so it would change the records faster - the 'tone arm' as they called it in those days would almost become a blur yanking itself back from the end of the record so fast and then dropping itself onto the beginning of the next record, almost bouncing off the record in the process. Remember 'magnetic vs. ceramic cartridges? My Bro had a suitcase player with a ceramic cartridge that totally lacked the bass that the magnetic cartridges could produce.
+steve green, Please see my recent post above; My household had a very similar unit in in the mid to late 1960's!
Such a beat, lively and quick, makes you want to get up and jive to it.
BUT NEVER FEAR! FOR I, YOUR GLORIOUS LEADER, SHALL SEE YOU THROUGH TO A BETTER WORLD!
AND NOW, A Walk In The Black Forest
This music is never on the radio anymore. It's onl on the music channels on cable TV. Our channel is called Beautiful Instrumentals.
i'm from 1950 onward, so i know EXACTLY what you mean. the best music ever.
@xNcGxKAPOW it was used on an episode of the british comedy "The Goodies". The Particular episode is Series 1, Episode 7 "Radio Goodies"
Wunderbar...
Thank you.
yep-I get that! It was the only record they had on their radio station. I always think of that episode whenever I hear this!
I love the design of that phonograph, I had several like that as a child but not as stylish. The shape of the speaker and the little sparkles in the grill cloth!
Was heard daily in Chicago in the 70-80s on Gigglesnort Hotel BJ and Dirty Dragon!
Awesome sound system pal ! Reminds me of my youth