- A great advantage for this famous Strasser sound was that his arrangers were always musicians in his orchestra. Particularly noteworthy are the tenor saxophonist Werner Tauber, who died in 2001, the trombonist Hans Ehrlinger (1931-2010), the trumpeter Etienne Cap and the guitarist Dirk Schweppe, who died in 2012.
- Strasser made his first public appearance at the age of seven on the German hour radio station in Bavaria, the forerunner of Bavarian radio. He played the piece ( Großmütterchen = Granny) on his harmonica.
- At the age of 16 he came to the State Academy of Music in Munich. In his eighth semester (1940) he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. However, he did not have to actively participate in the war as a soldier, but played in Stettin and later in the Ruhr area with soldiers' bands.
- In 2008 the orchestra consisted of five saxophones, three trumpets, three trombones, keyboards, guitar, bass and drums in addition to Strasser's clarinet.
- Together with Dieter Hildebrandt and Klaus Havenstein, Hugo Strasser and his orchestra performed in the legendary Schimpf New Year's Eve cabaret in the 1960s and 1970s in front of Schimpf vor 12 der Lach- und Schießgesellschaft (Schimpf vor 12 der Lach- und Schießgesellschaft).
- The last ball that Hugo Strasser played at the Deutsches Theater was the Ball of the Stars on January 30, 2016.
- As early as 1956, Strasser and his orchestra accompanied the first dance tournaments. In the decades that followed, he and his band professionalized dance music. Ballroom and Latin American dancers and dance athletes loved his music. In dance competition circles, it was unrivaled as probably the best dance orchestra in the world. The dance sport legends and 13-time world champions Bill and Bobbie Irvine explained: "When Hugo Strasser stands at the microphone on his clarinet accompanied by his orchestra and we dance to his tunes, we feel like we're floating across the floor. For us, Hugo Strasser is the best dance bandmaster in the world!".
- Strasser was also particularly successful with the production of the dance record of the year.
- In 1955 he founded his own 16-strong dance orchestra, the Orchester Hugo Strasser, with which he performed at numerous balls until 2016, including the carnival balls at the Deutsches Theater in Munich, and which continued after his death.
- From 1949 he worked as an alto saxophonist and clarinetist in the Max Greger Sextet, which was founded in 1948 and later expanded into a dance orchestra.
- Well over 500 melodies come from his pen.
- Strasser's father Simon, caretaker of the Amalienschule (today's foreign language institute of the state capital Munich), came from a farming family in Jetzendorf, his mother from Schrobenhausen.
- He was a German swing and jazz musician, composer, clarinetist and big band leader of the Orchester Hugo Strasser (Hugo Strasser Orchestra) since 1955.
- Although the orchestra has existed for more than five decades, there have hardly been any changes in personnel. The 1st alto saxophonist and clarinetist Hans Wolf (1927-2022) led Strasser's saxophone section from 1957 to 2009, his successor was Werner Bernklau.
- With his orchestra, he appeared in the ZDF entertainment show 'Musik ist Trumpf' with Peter Frankenfeld and in numerous TV programs with Lou van Burg 'Wir machen Musik','Sing mit mir - tanz mit mir', 'Mit Musik geht alles besser'.
- After the war he played jazz music in American clubs in Munich and other Bavarian cities, including from June 1945 to December 1945 in the Oberhaus in Passau for the US infantry division there.
- The decisive factor for Strasser's success was his sound, which was created by the fact that - similar to the Glenn Miller movement - the clarinet usually doubled the first trumpet an octave lower and was of course also used as a solo instrument. Strasser's clarinet was the "voice" of his orchestra.
- Of note is Strasser's series of recordings "Tanzplatte des Jahres" ( "Dance Record of the Year" ).
- His orchestra was famous for its dance music, in particular music for suited ballroom dancing with its strict beat and tempo, played at numerous ballroom dance / Dancesport championships in Germany and abroad.
- Hugo Strasser was also successful as a composer and arranger.
- He also stayed true to swing and jazz, e.g. through performances in quintet formation, his so-called Hot Five, of which there are also CDs.
- From the 1955/1956 ball season to 2016, Hugo Strasser played for a total of 60 years in the Deutsches Theater in Munich and in many other places throughout Germany on ball evenings with his dance orchestra. In 2016, just a few weeks before his 94th birthday, Strasser took part in the ball night at the Deutsches Theater, as he had done for many years.
- Since 2000 he has toured with Max Greger (+ 2015) and Paul Kuhn (+ 2013) as swing legends with the SWR Big Band e.g. across the country with A Tribute to Glenn Miller.
- A few more best-of CDs were released after 1996, but his heyday was over.
- He was buried anonymously in a Kempten cemetery.
- Occasionally he also composed film music like 1964 for Das Mädel aus dem Böhmerwald with Gerlinde Locker.
- Strasser continued to tour regularly with Greger. In January 2009 he gave a concert together with Max Greger and Bill Ramsey as swing legends in the Stuttgart Liederhalle. Guest stars were the Kessler twins. In 2013 he gave a concert with the Aichach swing band Crazy Oak Big Band, the concert came about after a birthday greeting.
- In 1996, Hugo Strasser's "Dancing 2000" was the last album in this series.
- Until 1977, Strasser had the exclusive right to a "Dance Record of the Year", after which there were other records authorized by the ADTV, including those by Max Greger and Günter Noris.
- A curiosity was the album What I wanted to say ... (1989). On it, Strasser could actually be heard as a singer, with songs about himself, life and his hometown of Munich. A single was even released with the song I can't dance ' I kann ned tanzen' (All his life Strasser flirted with the fact that he always got out of rhythm when dancing).
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