"Music is everywhere. It's in the air between us, waiting to be sung." ― David Levithan ▼▼▼ WERNER MULLER Werner Muller was a German bandleader and orchestrator who, from 1948 up to 1968, lead the RIAS Big Band Berlin. (RIAS = Radio Im Amerikanischen Sektor) His sound can be described as "swing with lots of string" though it should be said that, in the mid sixties, Muller also recorded a lot of "brassy sounding" albums. Muller will also be remembered for having been the orchestrator and arranger of many Catarina Valente albums. He was a pioneer in the field of "modernizing the classics" - his renditions of "Hora Staccato" and "Czardas" are typical examples in that range. In 1968, Muller left Berlin and joined the WDR Tanzorchester in Cologne. At the same time he also started to record albums under the name of "Ricardo Santos" - these albums were released in Japan, the USA and Europe. Muller was one of the very first German bandleaders to record oriental (eg Japanese traditional songs) music and some of his albums were even completely dedicated to a specific country or region. SOMETHIN' STUPID "Somethin' Stupid" is a song written by C. Carson Parks and originally recorded in 1966 by Parks and his wife Gaile Foote, as "Carson and Gaile". It is best known in the hit version by Frank Sinatra and his daughter, Nancy Sinatra. Sinatra had played Parks' recording to his daughter's producer, Lee Hazlewood, who recalled "He asked me, 'Do you like it?' and I said, 'I love it, and if you don't sing it with Nancy, I will." Sinatra said, 'We're gonna do it, book a studio.'" Their rendition was recorded on February 1st, 1967. Al Casey played guitar on the recording. Hazlewood and Jimmy Bowen were listed as the producers of the single, with the arrangement written by Billy Strange. British singer Robbie Williams recorded "Somethin' Stupid" as a duet in 2001 with Academy Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman. MHO A nice big band version of the famous "Sinatra family" song - a song which has been described by many critics as being "one of the 10 best love songs of all time". The arrangement is more or less straightforward, but Muller clearly understood that the melody doesn't require lots of "fancy extras" - it automatically brings the listener in a romantic and intimate mood. The song definitely also brings back memories of "those golden sixties" - an era when everything seemed possible and people still looked to the future with great confidence.... Hope you'll be able to cherish some prescious memories while listening to Werner Muller and "Somethin' Stupid" .... Enjoy !