17
platinum records
208
gold records
6
gold music cassettes
11
silver records
over 80
million sound recordings sold
93%
of all Germans know James Last
ca. 2.500
live concerts
91
concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London
over 150.000
tickets sold, the 1999 tour was the most successful tour production of the year
  • 1950 - 1952
    Best jazz bass player of the year (German Jazzpoll)
  • 1964
    First recording contract (Polydor)
  • 1965
    first LP ‘Non Stop Dancing “65” the name JAMES LAST is born!
  • 1968
    first tour

    First public TV appearance in the ZDF ‘Starparade’ on 14 March.
  • 1969
    German Record Award (“Deutscher Schallplattenpreis”) from “Fono Forum” for his new arrangement of “The Threepenny Opera” by Bertholt Brecht
  • 1969 - 1971
    Favourite orchestra of the year (German Musikpoll - forerunner of the “Echo”)
  • 1969
    “Goldene Europa” from Europawelle Saar
  • 1971
    “Goldenes Grammophon”, Munich

    “Silbermöwe” from Hamburger Abendblatt

    “RPM Gold Leaf Awards” (Canada) for “Super Non Stop Dancing” and for “James Does His Thing”

    “Golden Award”, Record World, for “Top German Orchestra”
  • 1971
    “Country Music Award” (ASCAO) for “When The Snow Is On The Roses”

    “ASCAP Award” (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) for Elvis Presley´s recording of “Fool”
  • 1974
    “Ehrenlöwe” TV award from Radio Luxemburg
  • 1975
    “Goldene Westfalenhalle”

    “Goldener Notenschlüssel” of the German music publisher Sikorski
  • 1976
    “Star Of The Year” trophy from English trade publications Music Week and Billboard London
  • 1977
    “Robert Stolz-Preis” from the Robert Stolz Foundation
 
1978
“THE ORDER OF MERIT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY” AWARDED BY FEDERAL PRESIDENT WALTER SCHEEL
  • 1979
    “Die goldene Kamera” from magazine HörZu
  • 1980
    Cashbox Award for “The Seduction” as the best instrumental production of the year Special award for 52 records on the British chart
  • 1991
    „Goldene Stimmgabel“ from ZDF
  • 1994
    „Goldene Eins“

    “Echo” in the category “Lifetime Award”
 
1998
„GOLDENE EUROPA“
  • 2000
    “Platin Stimmgabel” from ZDF
  • 2009
    “Senatsmedaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft” (Senate Medal for Art and Science)” from the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (presented on 15 April)
    Appointed Honorary Senator by the University of the Arts / Bremen (29 May)
    “Lifetime Award” from Universal for 80 million sound recordings sold
  • 2012
    GEMA’s 2012 German Music Author Award in recognition of his life’s work
  • 2013
    Golden Order of Merit for services rendered to the State of Vienna (8 April)
  • 2014
    Hamburg citizen of the year 2014” in the category „lifetime award” by Radio Hamburg 1 (dec 8th)