The Jerusalem Post Reviews Engelbert Humperdinck’s Performance
The King of Romance, Engelbert Humperdinck is currently on his worldwide ’50th Anniversary Tour.’ This week the tour spotted in Israel, where Humperdinck performed at the Sherover Hall at the Jerusalem Theater. The Jerusalem Post was in attendance and gave a great review of Humperdinck’s performance. Read some of the review below, but visit www.jpost.com for more!
The vibrations were romantic as Engelbert Humperdinck came on stage wearing a black suit over a brilliant red satin long sleeved shirt, with sparkling diamond cuff links and buttons closed up tight around his neck, before a packed audience at his Monday night show in the Sherover Hall at the Jerusalem Theater. (Don’t worry ladies, he eventually took off the coat and showed us his chest.) Prepping the packed audience, his six-piece band and two sexy go-go dancers in red sequined mini-dresses sang a short interlude, while a black and white 1960s television clip of Dean Martin introducing the then young Engelbert, which aired on the The Dean Martin Show, set the tone for his worldwide ‘The 50th Anniversary Tour.’ Israel is his 10th stop.
Wiggling his hips and thrusting his chest out, Engelbert said, “I’m celebrating my 50th year in show business. I must be doing something right. I act like I’m 50, I sing like I’m 50, and I do everything like I’m 50.”
His voice elicited some involuntarily gasps from the crowd as Engelbert began a montage of classics, “You’re The Best Thing,” “A Man Without Love.” During “After the Lovin’” it was hard to see the stage through the forest of arms waving, reaching for heaven or holding cell phones high trying to capture the moment.
In the packed concert hall, surrounded by swaying bodies and with people singing at the top of their lungs, the grey-haired grandmother sitting beside me (and who for obvious reasons wishes to remain anonymous) gingerly piped from the corner of her mouth: “These songs moves things in my mind and places in the body that I thought I’d never think or feel again.Wow, this feels amazing. I want to feel like this all the time, loved and romanced.”
Being treated as part of the family, Engelbert gave us his heart, soul and literally his sweat, by handing out several of his used red handkerchiefs to the women, and one man, dancing beside the stage at the end of the night.
Engelbert Humperdinck’s new single “I Followed My Heart” is available now for digital purchase on Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play. It is also available to stream on all major streaming platforms including Spotify and Apple Music.
Engelbert Humperdinck’s duets album Engelbert Calling is available for purchase at music retailers nationwide and online from our webstore, iTunes, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, Bandcamp, and Spotify. Humperdinck’s limited edition vinyl, Duets EP, is available for purchase our web-store.
Find all upcoming Engelbert Humperdinck tour dates at: https://www.engelbert.com/tour
For more from The Jerusalem Post, visit: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Concert-Review-Engelbert-Humperdinck-Jerusalem-June-19-2017-497437
