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Tonight, we’re still listening to music featured in Goldfinger!
Born in 1925 as Hans Joachim Etzel in Breslau, Poland, Roy Etzel grew up during World War II. He received his musical training at the Army Music School in Frankfurt, Germany. Following World War II, Etzel played trumpet in multiple well-known big bands from the 1940s until 1966, eventually earning the nickname “Mr. Trumpet” in Germany. That same year, Etzel appeared as a trumpet player in the film ‘Come to the Blue Adriatic’ and played the song ‘Golden Midnight Sun.’
At this point, he had put a handful of albums under his own name and decided to go into business for himself. He became the band leader of his own band, the Roy Etzel Sound Orchestra, which released albums throughout the 1970s, with Etzel composing and writing lyrics along the way. Etzel’s music career continued with more records released all the way until 1985.
Etzel published an autobiography, This is My Life, in 2004 and lived in Munich until his passing in 2015 at age 90. Fortunately, before Etzel transitioned to being a bandleader, he did release this 1965 compilation album, ‘The Silence (Il Silenzio).’ The Italian song ‘Il Silenzio’ is an instrumental piece notable for its trumpet theme and normally contains some spoken Italian lyrics. Written earlier in 1965, the song uses the same Italian Cavalry bugle call that Russian composer Tchaikovsky used in 1880. Etzel’s version, which leads off the album, does not have any lyrics and sounds remarkably like the U.S. military bugle call ‘Taps.’ This album reached the US Billboard 200 on Christmas 1965 and stayed on the charts for five weeks.
Anyways, the track that closes out the first half of the album is a cover of John Barry’s ‘Goldfinger.’ Just a year after the film’s debut, it was still immensely popular to cover. This is an incredibly unique version with the only lyric retained being the word “Goldfinger,” while Etzel’s trumpet takes center stage.
131. Roy Etzel – The Silence (Il Silenzio)
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