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Friedrick Hippmann mit seinem Melodie-Tanzorchester - Bel Ami (Du hast Glück bei den Frau’n, Bel Ami) [You’re Lucky With Women, Bel Ami] Foxtrott from Willi-Frost Film „Bel Ami” (T.Mackeben – H.F.Beckmann) – Odeon 1939 (German) NOTE: This is the title song of the German film hit of February 1939, also made famous by Tino Rossi's French interpretation https://youtu.be/wrT321jpGQw The film, based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, tells the story of the Parisian career of a handsome man who cynically uses his influential mistresses to...
Harold Leonard and His Orchestra – Blue Baby (Why Are You Blue?), Fox-Trot (Klages, Green and Haid) with Vocal chorus by Frank Harris, Columbia 1927 (USA) NOTE: All I've been able to find about Harold Leonard is that he was a violinist and leader, of the Waldorf Astoria Dance Orchestra in 1926 and 1927 (after bandleader Joseph Knecht, and before Meyer Davis). In the early 1920s he recorded for the Gennett and then Okeh labels as Harold Leonard and His Red Jackets. In the second half of the 1920s, he moved to the Brunswick and Columbia...
Gustaw Cybulski z Orkiestrą - Kocham cię, Giewoncie [I Love You, Giewont Mountain] Przyśpiewki góralskie (The Highlanders’ couplets) Odeon 1920 (Polish) NOTE: Gustaw CYBULSKI (alias Ignacy Ulatowski) - Polish cabaret and vaudeville actor, born in 1894 in Stryków (Lwów province). He was educated at the Lwów Conservatory and during World War I was a soldier in Józef Piłsudski's Legions. In 1920 he gained his first engagements in various provincial theaters, until he was recruited to the prestigious Warsaw “Novelty” theater. In later years,...
Kate SMITH & The Ambassadors’ Trio acc. by. Her Swanee Music – The Continental, Fox-Trot from the „Gay Divorcee” (Magidson-Conrad), Brunswick 1934 (USA) NOTE: Kate SMITH (born 1907 in Greenville, Virginia - died 1986 in Releigh, North Carolina) was an American white pop singer known as The Songbird of the South. Her earliest musical influences were her father, who sang in a Catholic church choir, and her mother, who played piano in a Presbyterian church. Kate attended business school in Washington, D.C., and then nursing school, which she...
The Kentucky Revellers (Harry Bidgood's Orchestra) – Mis Annabelle Lee, Fox-Trot (Sideny Clare - Lew Pollack - Harry Richman) with Vocal refrain, Broadcast Twelve, UK 1927 (produced in Australia) NOTE: The Kentucky Revellers was a pseudonym used by Harry Bidgood & his band. Harry BIDGOOD (b. in London 1898, d. in London 1957) was a British pianist and dance orchestra leader. He received an early musical education from his father and continued at the Royal College of Music. He began his professional career after the 1st World War as a...
Paul Godwin mit seinem Künstler-Ensemble – My little dream girl (Kleine verträumte Frau) Blues/ Shimmy (William Oerley), Schallplatte Grammophon 1926 (German) NOTE: This song is called "blues" but sounds more like a shimmy to me. European "blues" at that time of early jazz had little in common with American blues. The latter grew out of authentic Afro/American music and singing long settled in the US, while the European one was brought to London or Paris with American notes and thought to be just such a slightly slower variety of foxtrot....
Aniela Szlemińska & Ork. Syrena-Rekord pod dyr. Olgierda Straszyńskiego – Opowieśći lasku wiedeńskiego (Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald) Walc (J.Strauss - Rajchmanówna), Syrena-Electro 1935 (Polish) NOTE: Aniela SZLEMIŃSKA (b.1899 in Winnica, now in Ukraine – d. 1964 in Cracow, Poland) - one of the best opera sopranos in prewar Poland. She performed in the Grand Theatre of Warsaw, as well as Operas of Lwów and Poznań. Her voice was considered as “phonogenic” therefore she’d left quite a number of very good interpretations of popular songs...
Zygmunt Piotrowski & Chór Juranda z tow. organów i dzwonów (acc. by organ and bells) - Chrystus Zmartwychwstał (Christ Is Risen) – pieśń wielkanocna (z XIV w.) (the Easter song from 14th C.) Syrena-Electro 1934 (Polish) NOTE: in English: This is one of the oldest Polish Easter songs, dating to the end of the 14th century. There are, moreover, echoes of an old motet or even the Renaissance madrigal in its melodics. It is rarely performed in Poland today, rather only as a concert song. Jurand's Choir - the second most popular (after Dan's...
Matylda Polińska-Lewicka, sopran – Modlitwa (Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore) z opery „Toska” (Puccini), Orkiestra Opery Warszawskiej dyr. Bronisław Szulc, Syrena-Electro 1929 (Polish) NOTE (in Polish): Jak co roku, podczas Wielkiego Tygodnia przed Świętem Zmartwychwstania rezygnuję z zamieszczania wesołych kawałków muzycznych na rzecz muzyki poważnej. Podczas Triduum Paschalnego, od Wielkiego Czwartku do Wielkiej Soboty, muzyki w ogóle nie będzie. Spotkamy się znowu w Niedzielę Zmartwychwstania. Życzę wszystkim Odwiedzającym mój kanał oraz...
Enrico Caruso, tenor – Addio alla madre („Cavalleria rusticana”, Mascagni) Monarch Record Gramophone 1913 (Italy) NOTE: -------------------------------- As I do every year, during Holy Week before the Resurrection Feast, I am forgoing the posting of cheerful musical pieces in favor of serious music. During the Paschal Triduum, from Maundy Thursday to Holy Saturday, there will be no music at all. We will meet again on Resurrection Sunday. I wish all Visitors to my channel and Subscribers a Happy Easter and many graces from the Risen Christ...
Adam Aston z Orkiestrą & Wiktor Tychowski na gitarze hawajskiej – Samotność [Loneliness] (Do you know that pain of loneliness?) Walc angielski (Muzyka & słowa: Alfred Schütz) with Orchestra & Wiktor Tychowski on Hawaiian guitar, Syrena-Electro 1936 (Polish) NOTE: To take a little break from the series of the Polish Tangos in thich channel, now an English waltz composed by a Polish composer Alfred Schütz. Born in 1910 in Tarnopol (today Ukraine). He was a talented author of many prewar hits, like e.g. „Czemuś przyszła nieproszona” (Why Have...
The Lanin Orchestra – It Had To Be You (Isham Jones) Fox-Trot, Parlophone 1924 (Produced in UK) NOTE: Isham Jones is the composer of this classic jazz piece. In 1924, the Isham Jones Orchestra released its recording, which immediately rocketed to the top of the American charts. It was the No. 1 recording in the U.S. for five weeks and No. 4 in the U.S. for all of 1924. Here it is recorded in a very hot dance style by a no less famous American Roaring Twenties dance orchestra led by Sam Lanin.
Tino Rossi & Orchestra dir. by Marcel Cariven - Une etoile qui passe (A Passing Star), Tango chanté (Di Lazzaro-François), Columbia (originally recorded in France 1936, repressed in USA in the 1940s). NOTE: Great French pop-singer Tino Rossi sings another French tango from the 1930s. Originally this tango’s name is Italian „Stella Cadente” and was composed by Eldo Di Lazzaro. Author of great Italian hits of the 1930s: „Reginella Campagnola” (known as „Woodpecker’s Song”) and one of the greatest Italian tangos „Chitarra Romana”. Enjoy it!
Harry Bidgood and His Broadcasters – Black Bottom (Henderson) with Vocal Refrain, Broadcast 1927 (UK) NOTE: Harry BIDGOOD (born in West Ham, London 1898 - died in London 1957) British pianist, composer, dance band leader and film music director. His father was a music teacher and Harry received an early musical education from his father and later attended the Royal College of Music. Harry Bidgood began his professional career just after World War I as De Groot's pianist at the Piccadilly Hotel in London. In 1926, he began directing...
Mieczysław Fogg – Tej nocy czekam na ciebie (This Night I’m Waiting For You) Tango (Kwieciński-Jerry) Orkiestra pod dyr. H. Warsa, Syrena-Electro 1933 (Polish) NOTE: The most reliable duo Fogg (singer) and Henryk Wars (bandleader) performs this yet another old Polish tango that has NOT been saved in memory of the generations. As usual, however, the melody is charming, and despite the album's not-so-great quality, it's a pleasure to listen to it. Accordingly to song’s title, the slideshow shows nighttime photos of prewar Warsaw.
Kapelle Sándor Józsi (Dajos Béla Tanz-Orchester) – Yes Sir! That’s My Baby, Shimmy-Blues (Walter Donaldson) Odeon 1925 (Germany) NOTE: Kapelle Sándor Józsi was the pseudonym used by the German/Romanian dance orchestra leader Dajos Béla for his recordings in Germany in the first half of the 1920s. In the second half he switched to his own name as Dajos Béla Tanz-Orchester. Dajos Béla was known for his predilection for performing well-known American jazz hits, such as "Who?", "Constantinople", "Ain't She Sweet" and dozens of others. And here...
Harry Hudson’s Melody Men – In the Congo, Novelty Fox-Trot (Cobb-Lutzen) with Vocal refrain, Edison Bell Radio 1930 (UK) NOTE: Harry Hudson’s Melody Men was a British studio group led by Harry Hudson who was musical director for the Edison Bell Records from 1927 to the end of 1932. During this time he released many really hot dance records credited as Harry Hudson' Melody Men as well as various pseudonyms including The Blue Jays, The Bel-Tones, Gaiety Dance Band, Murray's Melody Men, The Plaza Band, Riviera Dance Band. In mid – 1930s his...
Nat Brandwynne & the Stork Club Orchestra – Let’s Face the Music and Dance, Fox-Trot (I. Berlin) from the RKO Musical Production „Follow the Fleet”, with Vocal Refrain, Melotone 1936 (USA) Nat (Nathan) BRANDWYNNE (b. 1910 in NYC – d. 1978 in Las Vegas, Nevada) American pianist and dance band leader. In the 1930s, he began his career as a pianist (alongside Eddy Duchin) in the famous Leo Reisman Orchestra. In the mid-1930s, Brandwynne formed his own orchestra, which for a time was contracted at the influential New York nightclub, the Stork...
Tadeusz Faliszewski – Słonko moje... (Sonny Boy) Slowfox z filmu „The Singing Fool” (Henderson - Woliński), Syrena-Electro 1929 (Polish) NOTE: It is indeed interesting to see how another Polish revue artist Tadeusz Faliszewski creates his own version of Al Jolson's famous song from the first-ever sound film The Singing Fool (1928), Before Faliszewski, also the famous Polish diseuse Hanka Ordonówna https://studio.youtube.com/video/CplOI3bii18/edit and the Jewish cabaret artist from Warsaw, Pesach Burstein...
Savoy Orpheans (at the Savoy Hotel, London) – I’d Rather Charleston, Fox-Trot/ Charleston (Gershwin) from „Lady Be Good”, with the Vocal Refrain, HMV 1926 (British) NOTE: One of the best European dance bands of the Roaring Twenties The Savoy Orpheans gives a not bad performance of a little forgotten Gershwin’s tune from the show „Lady Be Good” (overshadowed by such great hits like "Oh, Lady Be Good!" or the "Fascinating Rhythm"). I'm only surprised that such a reputable British dance orchestra could have so carelessly selected the duo...