Jørgen Ingmann music catalogue

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Jørgen Ingmann (actually Jørgen Ingmann Pedersen) was a Danish guitarist. He and his wife Grethe won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1963. He was also successful with instrumental songs, such as a cover of 'Apache'. More

According to Holly Moors of the internet magazine Moors Magazine, 'Jörgen Ingmann (..) was a Danish guitarist who scored a few instrumental hits in the early sixties, of which the Drina-Marsch was the biggest.'
With that description he does Jörgen Ingmann way too short. After all, Ingmann was the one who had a very big hit in America with 'Apache' (number 3 in the Billboard Top 100 in April 1961) by the Shadows. The success of Drina-Marsch can be called modest in comparison.

Early in his career, in the 1940s and early 1950s, Ingmann played as a jazz guitarist with Svend Asmussen's orchestra. Inspired by Les Paul, he started to record instrumental songs under his own name in his own studio around 1955. It mainly concerned well-known songs in the popular genre.
From the end of the 1950s he became successful with several hits in Germany and 'Apache' in America and various other countries. In 1963 he won the Eurovision Song Contest, together with his wife Grethe. However, due to the rise of beat music and rock, his instrumental music gradually became less popular.

His music was also not unknown in the Netherlands. On the radio, Amorada (Pepe's B-side) was sometimes used at the end of a program. And on television his songs were used as background or intermission music.

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Full name

Jørgen Ingmann

Born

Kopenhagen, 26 April 1925

Nationality

Danish

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Deceased

Holle (DK), 21 maart 2015

Particular profession

musician