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Take My Heart

His name comes from the 19th century Austrian composer who wrote "Hansel & Gretel." His voice comes from heaven, and he has been a legend in the international music industry for the last forty plus years, with over 150 million records sold.

Some of the evergreen hits that belong to Engelbert include:(Please) Release Me, After The Lovin', Spanish Eyes, The Last Waltz, Am I That Easy To Forget , There Goes My Everything, Les Bicyclettes de Belsize, Winter World Of Love, This Moment In Time, Can't Take My Eyes Off You and the unforgettable Quando, Quando, Quando.

Engelbert Humperdinck has recorded everything from the most romantic ballads to the platinum-selling theme song "Lesbian Seagull" for the latest Beavis and Butthead movie. His remarkable voice and extraordinary talent has endeared him to millions of fans around the globe with the MTV generation having just "discovered" what a magnificent musician the rest of the world has celebrated for decades.

Few people realize that several of the major forces in the world of rock n' roll, including Jimi Hendrix and The Carpenters, started out as opening acts for Humperdinck in the late'60's, 70’s and '80's.   Let's not forget Humperdinck taking #1 away from the Beatles, as well.

In 1999 “Humper” recorded The Dance Album as his first album in the dance genre. Released by the red-hot dance label Interhit Records, the album featured newly recorded dance versions of six of Engelbert's greatest hits, along with five original songs. Favorites such as "Quando, Quando, Quando" and "Release Me" are set to an infectious dance beat by dance producer/ remixers Chris Cox and Barry Harris, known collectively as Thunderpuss 2000. The album has enjoyed tremendous success, with "Release Me" hitting Top Ten in the Billboard Dance charts. Says Billboard magazine of The Dance Album: "...brilliantly cool...one of the most fun pop/dance albums of the decade."

With four Grammy nominations, a Golden Globe for "Entertainer of the Year" (1988), 63 gold and 24 platinum records and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Humperdinck might rest easy on his laurels. Hardly. In the past few years, he has joined in elite group of musical artists, such as Tony Bennett and Burt Bacharach, who have crossed over successfully to strike a new chord with a younger generation, in addition to their core audiences. The Humper has appeared on several MTV programs, including two appearances on "MTV Beach House", "Chilling with the Weaze" and "Oddville."

Engelbert Humperdinck came into this world as Arnold George Dorsey, one of ten siblings. His father served in the British military, and his mother taught violin and had an operatic voice. They all lived in Leicester, England and the young lad from Leicester developed strong and enduring family values imparted by his parents. At the age of eleven, Arnold George Dorsey began to study saxophone.

When he was seventeen, Engelbert found himself playing at a pub that sponsored a singing contest. Goaded by his friends to enter, he put down his sax and for the first time revealed another vocal talent: impersonations. Arnold George Dorsey gave the worlds finest impersonation of Jerry Lewis- Jerry Lewis still thinks so-and was quickly dubbed Gerry Dorsey by his fans. It became his professional stage name. Furthermore, he never picked up the sax again.

“If music be the food of love....play on........” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

1977 & 1986 Champion Dancers in Ballroom & Swing Dance.
DJ Stan is Also A Musician.

Music isn’t just something I hear, it’s something I need to feel. From late-night jazz smoke to heavy house and deep techno that rumbles below 30 Hz, sound for me is not background, it’s a space you can live in.

I build my hi-fi system with the care some people reserve for restoring a classic car. Turntables, amps, cables and speakers are chosen for character and the ability to expose every hidden layer. I’m after that playback where a double bass sounds like real wood and a kick drum makes the floor breathe.

Discovering new sounds is a second nature. Fresh releases, forgotten B-sides, obscure live recordings—they all find a place in my digital and vinyl collection. Vinyl stays at the core. The ritual of needle and groove, the soft crackle before the music starts, the warmth only analog can give—that’s home base.

This SoundCloud isn’t a shop window, it’s a sound logbook. Here I share mixes that drift between deep basslines and melodies that reveal themselves only if you let them. No genre police, just a pulse beating in 4/4. Some sets could soundtrack a crowded club; others unfold like a slow sunrise over the city.

Behind the listening is a bigger hunger: understanding how music fits together. How production, mastering and room acoustics make a track breathe. I spend hours shaping subwoofers, amps and acoustics until it feels like the band is in the room.

For me, music isn’t background noise. It’s a landscape to explore, a universe to step into again and again. SoundCloud is where that journey becomes public, a living archive of rhythms and textures that keep surprising.