Yiddish king Leo Fuld discovered Charles Aznavour

THE KING OF YIDDISH MUSIC LEO FULD

The Sgt Pepper of Yiddish music

It's a `moifes', a miracle! It's pure history: The Legend was the first Yiddish recording ever made by an African record company. It took twice the studio-time to produce this as the Beatles did with Sgt. Pepper. `No effort at all', according to Robert Bierings, president of HiPPO records. His aim was to make the very best recording ever of the King Of Yiddish Music when he signed up with Ghana-based HiPPO Records.

Leo Fuld (left) was the man who discovered Armenian singer Charles Aznavour

Leo Fuld sold already a solid 30 million records all over the world. But it surprised the legendary singer that producer Mohamed el-Fers wanted more than just good songs and first class arrangements. It was the president of HiPPO records, Rob Bierings, who introduced arranger Kees Post to producer el-Fers. The arrangers was sometimes producing and the producer was arranging to realize the best recording ever made by Leo Fuld. It's sad that this was also his very last recording.

Leo Fuld was recorded at Bill & Ted's Excellent Recordingstudio Amsterdam 9th, 16th, 31th January and 6th and 21th February 1997.

Produced by Mohamed el-Fers.

Orchestrations and arrangements by Kees Post.

Engineered by Dennis Mulder.

Vocal postrecorings by Andrew Fernihough.

Orchestral arrangements recorded in Hippo's recordingstudio Accra and Amsterdam between 27th October 1996 and 31th July 1997.

Mixed by Dennis Mulder at Bill & Ted's 1th -3th August 1997.

Mastered at Mediatrack Amsterdam by Hans Strikkers.

Thanks to Rob Bierings; Rogier 'DataPoint' Pointl; Lin Sargent; Murat Kirbacoglu; Henny Ree; Jasper Hazevoet; Arris Oliemans and Ed Zwaab.

The CD The Legend was MokumTV's millenium CD and is available in Europe through Words & Music, Nieuwegein The Netherlands: http://www.aasup.nl/obnn/dn/musicwords/. HiPPO headquarters: Van Limburg Stirumplein 24hs, 1051 BE Amsterdam, The Netherlands or P.O. Box 050 Osu-Accra, Ghana.

Dont forget to listen to two Mp3´s of the King of Yiddish music