The Lonely Shepherd

The Lonely Shepherd, also known as Einsamer Hirte or

Der Einsamer Hirte in German, is an instrumental piece
by James Last, rst released in a recording with the Romanian panutist Gheorghe Zamr.

Background

Originally, the title was planned for the album Filmusik

ohne Filme, which was only to contain original compositions by James Last. This album was never released,
so The Lonely Shepherd " was published on James last
album, Russland Erinnerungen (Memories of Russia).[1]
In the same year, it was also released as a single, which
reached 22nd on the music charts in Germany. With this
recording, Gheorghe Zamr, who had already published
a number of records, succeeded in an international breakthrough. Among other things, he accompanied James
Last in his 1978 tour.
The Lonely Shepherd has repeatedly been used as
soundtrack. In 1979, it was used as the title theme for
the six-part television series Golden Soak (Das Gold der
Wste)[2] and again in 1984 in the Oscar-nominated short
lm Paradise Verwendung. In 2004, Quentin Tarantino
used the recording as soundtrack in a scene and in the
closing credits of his lm Kill Bill: Volume 1.[3] On the
DVD, Gheorghe Zamr is mistakenly recognized as the
titles producer.
The title enjoys unbroken popularity up to today and is
newly recorded by numerous artists.[4] A rap version by
Lamar in 1999 was quite successful, as well as a version
by Leo Rojas, which enabled him to win the Television
talent-show Das Supertalent in December, 2011.[5]

References

[1] http://www.discogs.com/
James-Last-Russland-Erinnerungen/release/2378788
[2] Golden Soak at the Internet Movie Database
[3] James Last at the Internet Movie Database
[4] Liste der Coverversionen auf coverinfo.de
[5] http://www.rtl.de/cms/
das-supertalent-2011-leo-rojas-spielt-der-einsame-hirte-von-gheorghe-zamfir-963525.
html

3 TEXT AND IMAGE SOURCES, CONTRIBUTORS, AND LICENSES

Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses

3.1

Text

The Lonely Shepherd Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lonely_Shepherd?oldid=711706872 Contributors:
AnomieBOT, BG19bot, Garagepunk66, CAPTAIN RAJU, Ciridae and CoherentBass

3.2

PamD,

Images

File:Eighth_notes_and_rest.svg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Eighth_notes_and_rest.svg License:

CC-BY-SA-3.0 Contributors:
Eighth_notes_and_rest.png Original artist:
<a
href='//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:DoktorMandrake'
title='User:DoktorMandrake'
class='mwredirect'>Doktor</a><a href='//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DoktorMandrake' title='User talk:DoktorMandrake'
class='mw-redirect'>Mandrake</a>
File:Question_book-new.svg Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Question_book-new.svg License: Cc-by-sa-3.0
Contributors:
Created from scratch in Adobe Illustrator. Based on Image:Question book.png created by User:Equazcion Original artist:
Tkgd2007

3.3

Content license

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0