Performance · Production
Bobby Schmidt
real name Gerhard Schmidt Zink
Bobby Schmidt is credited on 559 releases across 168 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1954–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
559
Credits
168
Albums
8
Decades active
1
In collections
Biography
German drummer, songwriter, singer and producer, born 25 March 1923 in Berlin, Germany and died 03 January 2014 in Hamburg, Germany. From 1945 to 1955 he played the drums for Kurt Edelhagen. In 1955 he founded his own band Bobby Schmidt Mit Seinem Sextett, with which he made recordings for numerous artists. In 1958 he settled down as a producer at Deutsche Grammophon, where he discovered and promoted Wencke Myhre, among others. Until his retirement in July 1986 he maintained an intensive collaboration with Max Greger.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
559 releases · 168 albums · active 1954–2025
- Performance · 455
- Production · 275
- Other credits · 164
- Engineering · 2
Studios: Trixi Tonstudios · Polydor Studios, Hamburg · Filmkunst Musikverlag · DGG-Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Max Greger
- Wencke Myhre
- James Last
- Fritz Schulz-Reichel
- Klaus Wunderlich
- Margrit Sörensen
- Placido Domingo
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