Canadian Sunset (Heywood) by Hugo Winterhalter & his Orchestra, piano solo by Eddie Heywood (CD audio source) Million-selling instrumental spent seven months on the Billboard Top 100 chart....
Charted at #10 on Billboard Best Selling Pop Singles chart in August 1950. Hugo had one of the most beautiful orchestra and choruses of the time, and this recording provides a good example....
Vanessa (Wayne) by Hugo Winterhalter & his Orchestra (CD audio source) Written as a tribute to actress Vanessa Brown, this Winterhalter hit was one of numerous orchestral instrumentals composed...
Hugo Winterhalter graduated from Mount St. Mary's near Emmitsburg, Maryland in 1931, where he played saxophone for the orchestra and sang in two of the choirs. He later studied violin and reed...
Blue Tango (Anderson) by Hugo Winterhalter & his Orchestra (CD audio source) Among the various cover versions of "Blue Tango" that were left in the dust behind composer Leroy Anderson's own...