Roy Etzel

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Roy Etzel at his book launch in 2007
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Mr. Trumpet
  DE 45 08/15/1965 (1 week)
The Silence (Il Silenzio)
  US 140 December 18, 1965 (5 weeks)
Singles
Jenny, oh, Jenny
  DE 36 02/01/1961 (4 weeks)
Soleado
  AT 10 02/15/1975 (8 weeks)

Roy Etzel (actually Hans Joachim Etzel ; born March 6, 1925 in Breslau ; † May 14, 2015 in Munich ) was a German trumpeter , composer, lyricist and band leader.

Life

Etzel received his musical training at the Army Music School in Frankfurt am Main . After the Second World War he played as a trumpeter in various big bands , for example with Kurt Edelhagen from 1947 to 1952 , with Max Greger from 1957 to 1962 and with Hugo Strasser from 1962 to 1966 . Then he went into business for himself. His own band was the Roy Etzel sound orchestra . He had an appearance as a trumpeter in the comedy Come with the Blue Adria (1966) and played the song Golden Midnight Sun and appeared frequently on television, for example on New Year's Eve 1963 in the cabaret show Schimpf vor 12 of the Munich laughing and shooting society .

In 2004 he published his autobiography entitled This is my life . Etzel died on May 14, 2015, a little more than two months after his 90th birthday, in the Neuaubing district of Munich .

Discography

  • Jenny (1961)
  • Il silenzio (1965)
  • At 17 you still have dreams (1965)
  • Porto Rico (1965)
  • Addio Maria, goodbye (1966)
  • Festival de la muerte (1966)
  • Golden Midnight Sun (1966)
  • Goldfinger (1966)
  • Lara's Theme (1966)
  • Melancholy (1966)
  • Mister Trumpet (1966)
  • Notte d'amore (1966)
  • Sunrise (1966)
  • Thunderball (1966)
  • Twilight (1966)
  • Speak Softly Love (1972)
  • Goodbye My Love, Goodbye (1973)
  • Ibolele (1974)
  • San Francisco Symphony (1974)
  • Dolannes Melody (1975)
  • Soleado (1975)
  • Let Your Love Flow (1976)
  • Goodbye Tomorrow (1978)
  • The Magic Is You (1978)
  • Los Exitos De ... Roy Etzel (1985, MC)

Filmography

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: Germany / Austria
  2. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7
  3. ↑ Congratulations for Roy Etzel on his 80th birthday In: Rathaus-Umschau Munich, March 3, 2005, p. 4 (PDF file)
  4. ↑ Discogs
  5. ↑ Schimpf before 12 1963 ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lachundschiess.de
  6. ↑ Clemens Hagen: Munich mourns “Mr. Trumpet ". In: Abendzeitung from May 31, 2015 (accessed June 1, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Etzel, Roy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Etzel, Hans Joachim (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trumpeter and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2015
Place of death Munich