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▓█ █▓░█ ▒ Roger Whittaker - Seine Welt Seine Musik █░▒█ █▓
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▀█▄▄ ▀ ARTiST..[ Roger Whittaker ▀ ▄▄█▀
░ █ ▀█ TiTLE...[ Seine Welt Seine Musik █▀ █ ░
▒ █ ▀█ GENRE...[ Pop GRABBER.[ EAC █▀ █ ▒
▓ █▄ █ LABEL...[ sony bmg ENCODER.[ Lame 3.97 █ ▄█ ▓
█▄ █▄ █ YEAR....[ 2004 QUALiTY.[ avg.kbps/44,1hz █ ▄█ ▄█
█▄ █▄█ SOURCE..[ CDDA MODE....[ Joint-Stereo █▄█ ▄█
█ ▀█ PLAYTIME[ 122:10 min REL.DATE[ 02.18.2007 █▀ █
██▄ TRACKS..[ 36 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ▄██
░ █▓█▄ SiZE....[ 176,4 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ▄█▓█ ░
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▒ █▄ ▀█ NR. TRACK. TiME. █▀ ▄█ ▒
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█ █░ █ 01 Ein Kissen voller Traeume 04:03 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 02 Du wirst alle Jahre schoener 03:29 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 03 Du hast mich nicht gesehen 04:12 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 04 Himmel und Heimat 03:31 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 05 Tauch hinab in die Nacht 04:15 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 06 Ich wollte nur mal mit Dir tanzen 03:37 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 07 Aber was das kostet 03:49 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 08 Das erste Adios 03:38 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 09 I Don't Believe In If Anymore 03:18 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 10 A Man Without Love 03:59 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 11 The Candle 04:16 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 12 Let Me Be Your Sun 03:46 █ ░█ █
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█ █░ █ 01 Le mistral 02:48 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 02 Un ΘlΘphant sur mon balcon 02:54 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 03 Berceuse pour mon amour 02:40 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 04 Je m'en vais 02:57 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 05 Albany (live) 04:42 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 06 Bleib heut bei mir (live) 03:47 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 07 Chengalep (live) 01:10 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 08 Make The World Go Away (live) 02:49 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 09 I Love You (live) 03:47 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 10 The Impossible Dream (live) 03:18 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 11 Tango mit dir (live) 02:20 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 12 River Baion (live) 04:00 █ ░█ █
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█ █░ █ 01 Changes 03:00 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 02 Honolulu City Lights 03:21 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 03 Rocky Top 02:01 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 04 Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain 02:29 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 05 Love Me Tender 04:28 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 06 Morning Has Broken 02:46 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 07 True Love 03:17 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 08 Unchained Melody 02:55 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 09 The Most Beautiful Girl 02:51 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 10 Always on My Mind 04:17 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 11 Sailing 04:12 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 12 Calypso 03:28 █ ░█ █
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█ █▓░█ the early years █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ since the summer of 1962 when he took his first steps █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ on the road to a career in entertainment, roger █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ whittaker has become an outstanding star all over the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ world, enjoying a series of highly acclaimed albums █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and a string of hit singles that includes such █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ classics as "durham town," "new world in the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ morning," "i don't believe in 'if' anymore," and "the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ last farewell." he has amassed worldwide record sales █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ nearing 50 million. his success has embraced the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ united states and canada as well as australia, new █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ zealand, scandinavia, holland, belgium, france, and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ austria. in germany alone, more than 10 million █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ albums have been sold in the last six years, to add █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ to 250 platinum, gold, and silver record awards. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ roger was born in nairobi, kenya on march 22, 1936. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ his parents hailed originally from staffordshire in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ england: his father came from a family of grocers; █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ his mother was a teacher. the music of east africa █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ left a mark on roger's childhood. "in over 30 years █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of singing and playing musical sounds - the wonderful █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ drumming, and those marvelous, infectious rhythms - █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ have played a great part in everything i have ever █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ written and sung." in school, he was an avid member █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of the school choir and gained top grades. "in the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ last three years of my formal education, i managed to █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ work hard enough to get top grades in all my school █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ exams and i had great hopes later of studying to █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ become a teacher or a doctor," he says. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ however, within three weeks of leaving school, roger █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ was drafted into national service, and he spent the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ next two years in uniform in the kenya regiment. in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 1956, roger was demobilized and decided that it was █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ time to concentrate on a career in medicine. he █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ enrolled at the university of cape town in south █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ africa, but he wasn't ready to study day in, day out. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ after 18 months, he left the university and joined █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the civil service education department to try █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ teaching. "it was a very exciting time. i was █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ teaching -and loved it! however, this was just an █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ apprenticeship. i could go no further because i had █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ no qualifications. the next hurdle was to find a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ suitable university. the university of bangor in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ wales was suggested. it was ideal." █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ roger arrived in britain in 1959. for the next three █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ years, he studied zoology, biochemistry, and marine █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ biology with such intensity that he ended up with the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ second highest grades of his year and a b.sc. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ however, during his early days of teaching in east █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ africa, roger had continued to sing and entertain in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ local clubs, and he had by now started to write his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ own songs. in the last year before sitting for his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ degree at bangor, roger became involved with the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ university rag week when he was approached to compose █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ some songs to sing in the rag show. in doing so, he █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ made a demo track that found its way to a major music █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ publisher. before he knew it, roger was back in the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ studio recording his first single, "the charge of the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ light brigade." █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ roger's second release, "steel men," started to pick █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ up radio air play while he was sitting his exams. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ when he was given the news that he had passed his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ finals and landed his prized degree, roger also █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ learned that "steel men" had entered the british █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ charts. it was the first hit of what has become a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ remarkable career. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ faced with the dilemma of which career to choose, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ roger sought the advice from his professor. "take █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ your chance," he was advised. "have a try in show █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ business and if you haven't made it in ten years, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ come back here and teach. i shall always have a place █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ at the university for you." █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ finding himself an agent and manager, roger set out █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ to establish his name and almost immediately was █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ booked for a summer season in northern ireland. he █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ then spent the next five years learning his trade. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ not long afterwards, he landed his first major █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ breakthrough when he was signed to appear on an █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ ulster television show called "this and that." in the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ spring of 1964, roger met his future wife, natalie, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and they were married on august 15th after a mere █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ three month's courtship. today they live in the heart █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of england --with their five children, emily, lauren, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ jessica, guy and alexander. by 1967, roger was slowly █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ beginning to make his name. he had enjoyed several █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ record releases during this time, though the elusive █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ big hit single had still escaped his clutches. still, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ he was earning a healthy living and appearing █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ occasionally on radio and television. roger was asked █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ to join a british team for the annual music festival █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ at knokke, belgium. singing "if i were a rich man," █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and his own composition "mexican whistler," he helped █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ britain to win the competition. he also emerged as █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the hit of the entire contest and picked up the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ coveted and highly prestigious press prize as the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ personality of the festival. issued on the continent █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ as singles shortly afterward, "mexican whistler" soon █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ reached number one in three different european █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ countries while "if i were a rich man" peaked at █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ number two. suddenly, roger was inundated with offers █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ to tour europe and star on the major television █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ programs. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ at home in britain, however, he was still virtually █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ unknown on a national scale, although his records █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ were played extensively, and he enjoyed a fair amount █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of success on television and in cabaret. in the fall █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of 1969, his british record company issued a new █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ single; another of his own compositions with the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ unusual title of "the leavin' (durham town)." "i just █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ didn't have any faith in that song at all," roger █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ admits. "far from promoting the single in britain, i █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ went off to finland for a cabaret season and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ television appearances." by the time he returned in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ november, "durham town" was rapidly climbing the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ british charts. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ the last farewell █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ one of whittaker's best-loved songs in america is █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ "the last farewell." and he enjoys telling the story █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of how the tune came to be a favorite. originally █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ recorded in 1971, the lyrics to the song were written █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ by a birmingham, england, silversmith who entered a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ contest in which the best lyric or poem sent to █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ whittaker would be put to music and recorded. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ although "the last farewell" was not the winner, the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ song was included on an album, along with the winner █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ "why" "suddenly, five years, later, i got the call █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ from atlanta, georgia," whittaker relates. "the wife █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of a program director had requested the song be █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ played on wsb radio there. she had heard the song █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ while traveling to canada. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ "the last farewell" went on to become the most █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ requested song on wsb's playlist and within weeks, it █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ became a massive hit all over the world, reaching the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ coveted number one slot in 11 different countries. in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the usa, "the last farewell" became a top 20 hit in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 1975 and finally selling over 11,000,000 copies █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ worldwide. the song broke down the barriers to █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ success in america for whittaker and opened up a vast █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ new country for his music to explore. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ germany, particularly, has been a highly successful █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ market for roger over the years. it all started back █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in 1976 when he undertook his first major concert █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ tour of the country, following the success of "the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ last farewell". record success, however, has █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ established whittaker's name in the country and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ hoisted him to superstardom. his sings and records in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the german language. indeed, in 1985, he was █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ acclaimed as the country's most successful recording █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ artist, singing in the german language, a distinction █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ no other major international record star could claim. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ roger admits to being unable to speak a word of █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ german and records his songs phonetically. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the 1980's █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in conjunction with his first american tour in 1980, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ roger launched a major international song writing █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ competition, children helping children, from the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ united nations in new york through unesco. children █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ from all over the world were asked to submit lyrics █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and poems on the subject of promoting peace and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ understanding, the best of which roger would put to █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ music and record. the contest attracted over one █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ million entries from 57 countries. the winner was █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 13-year-old odina batnag form manila in the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ philippines who was flown to new york and introduced █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ to the huge audience at roger's radio city music hall █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ concert where her entry "i am but a small voice", was █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ performed for the very first time. the song has been █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ released worldwide with all proceeds raised by sales █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ being donated to unesco's education for handicapped █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ children programme. that year also finished on a note █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of extreme triumph when roger received america's █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ prestigious b'nai b'rith humanitarian award for his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ work with children. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ in 1982, roger was persuaded to make a movie in his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ native kenya. it was an ambitious project, and for █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ six weeks the film cameras followed him throughout █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the east african country as roger related the story █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of kenya's history -the british colonial development █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and the rediscovery of his homeland - through his own █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ unique words and music. the result, roger whittaker █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in kenya, was screened in britain by bbc television █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in the autumn of 1983, followed by a worldwide █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ transmission. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ in 1986, whittaker made a reappearance on the uk top █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 10 singles chart with the standard 'the skye boat █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ song' in a duo performance with des o'connor. also in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ 1986, he published his autobiography, so far, so █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ good, co-written with his wife. and, in 1989, roger █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ was awarded the prestigious gold badge of merit from █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ his peers in the british academy of songwriters, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ composers and authors. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ the 1990s █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ the 1990's have seen roger continue to perform and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ record. in the summer of 1991, he was personally █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ invited by bob hope to appear in a highly prestigious █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ gala charity show at the london palladium. in 1993 █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ roger recorded "celebration," a self-penned album █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ offering a wide array of his vocal and song writing █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ talents. as part of his celebration of 30 years in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the music business roger launched a world tour. his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ concert in sacramento california was taped and shown █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ across the united states on public television. "the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ celebration concert," was also made available as a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ home video release from rca. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in 1997 roger released "a perfect day, his greatest █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ hits and more." the title track to this album █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ features roger singing a sentimental duet with his █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ daughter jessica. in spite of knee replacement █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ surgery, roger continued an active concert schedule █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ with nearly 100 concert dates in one european and two █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ north american tours in 1997. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ now established at the very pinnacle of international █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ stardom the sheer magnitude of the demand to see █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ roger whittaker performing in concert, or on tour, or █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ on television has resulted in an extensive almost █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ non-stop round of engagements all over the world, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ making him one of the most traveled entertainers in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ show business history...and needless to say one of █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the most successful and respected. █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ the present █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ 2001 saw a grueling german tour again, at the end of █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ which an exhausted roger celebrated his 65th █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ birthday - the natural age for retirement and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ announced that he would stop touring completely. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ however, having moving to ireland and settling down █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ by the river shannon, he was soon inspired to start █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ writing again, and needless to say, like all artists █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ missed the roar of the crowds. so in 2003 he again █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ toured germany to great acclaim, recorded a new █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ german christmas album, and is currently in the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ studio, working on his first english album for seven █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ years, hopefully to be released in 2004, with tours █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ of ireland, canada, scandinavia and in 2005 in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ germany again, as well as the usa. tv specials and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ new compilations are in the pipeline, with many of █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ his old songs, long since deleted but so frequently █░▓█ █
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