Horst Jankowski

Horst Jankowski (30 January 1936 – 29 June 1998) No. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100, No. 2 in Canada, and No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The track was featured on the BBC's review of the 1960s music scene, Pop Go The Sixties, broadcast on BBC One and ZDF, on 31 December 1969. It can be heard in a 1962 episode of Perry Mason (1957 TV series) (S5E23 "The Case of the Absent Artist"). This track has become a signature song at Plymouth Argyle F.C., being played at the end of each game as the fans leave the ground. The song also featured as a running joke in the episode "Radio Goodies" of the 1970s BBC TV series The Goodies, as the only record possessed by the group's radio station.

The Genius of Jankowski album, released in 1965, was also a million seller. Between 1989 and 1994 Jankowski composed and performed easy listening music for Sonoton, Germany.

Jankowski died of lung cancer in 1998, at the age of 62.

Discography My Fair Lady Mit Horst Jankowski (1964; Mercury Records) The Genius of Jankowski! (1964; Mercury Records) US No. 18 More Genius of Jankowski (1965; Mercury Records) US No. 65 Still More Genius of Jankowski (1966; Mercury Records) US No. 107; CAN No. 11 So What's New? (1966; Mercury Records) And We Got Love (1967; Mercury Records) With Love (1967; Mercury Records) Baby, But Grand (1967; Mercury Records) Piano Affairs (1967; Mercury Records) The Many Moods of Jankowski (1968; Mercury Records) The Horst Jankowski Scene (1968; Mercury Records) Play A Simple Melody (1968, Mercury Records) Jankowski Plays Jankowski (1969; Mercury Records) A Walk in the Evergreens (1969; Mercury Records) Jankowski Meets Beethoven (1970; Mercury Records) Piano on the Rocks (1970; Mercury Records) Jankowskingsize – For Nightpeople Only (1970; MPS) Jankowskeyboard (1970; MPS) Jerusalem (1971; Rediffusion) Jankowski Plays Latin (1971; Columbia Records) Follow Me (1972; Intercord) International (1973; Intercord) Happy Polka (1973; Intercord) Return to the Black Forest (1975; Rediffusion) Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1976; EMI Records) Happy Blue Piano (1982; Sonoton / Intersound) The Best of Mr. Black Forest (1989; Sonoton / Intersound) Piano Interlude (1994; Sonoton / Intersound) Black Forest Explosion! (1997; Motor Music) Eine Schwarzwaldfahrt (1998; Mercury Records) Jankowskinetik (2003; Universal) Jankowskeynotes (2004; Universal) Remember Mr. Black Forest (2015; Memorylane / Intersound) With Johnny Hodges Johnny Hodges and His Strings Play the Prettiest Gershwin (Verve, 1958)