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The Knickerbockers – Where Can You Be? Fox-Trot from Film “Cheer Up And Smile” (with Vocal Refrain (Helen Rowlands?) Columbia 1930 (USA) NOTE: The Knickerbockers is pseudonym (one of dozens) used in the 1920s by the Ben Selvin’s dance orchestra. His band was extremely prolific during the hot-dance era of the Roaring Twenties and remained active through the early 1930s. Later, Ben Selvin gave up bandleading and became musical director of various record companies, including Majestic, Columbia and Victor. His legacy is estimated up to 20 000...
Piotr LESZCZENKO z ork. Franka Foxa - Прощай мой табор (Farewell, My Camp) Gypsy song (P. Leszczenko), Odeon 1938 (Polish product) NOTE: Pyotr LESZCZENKO (also spelled as Peter Leschenko, Petr Lescenco) was a Ukrainian singer (born into a Ukrainian family in a village near Kherson) who, however, was completely absorbed into the Russian tradition of singing old romances and is therefore often considered a Russian singer. In the 1930s, during his emigration to Western Europe (Paris, Vienna, London, Riga, Bucharest), he became one of the main...
Jack Munro (singing) - My One And Only (G. & I. Gershwin) from "Funny Face" with Orchestra, Parlophone 1929 (UK) NOTE Jack Munro seems to be a completely forgotten British singer from the 1920s. I was not able to find a word about him online, while you can hear a pleasantly good voice and a correct yet not overly thrilling interpretation of this difficult syncopated American tune, which was quite an obstacle course for European performers in those days. In Poland, for example, the renowned pop singer Adam Aston still managed, but another...
Janusz Popławski z Septetem Henryka Golda (with Henryk Gold’s Septett) - Zabrałaś mi serce [You Took My Hart Away] Tango z op. Polowanie na Lamparta w teatrze 8:30 [From Theatre 8:30 show Hunting The Leopard] ((S. Ferszko – L. Brodziński, J. Krzewiński), Columbia (Recorded in Poland in 1934; USA release c.1944) NOTE: Columbia's red labels of the early 1940s were US releases containing many pre-war European (mainly Eastern European) matrixes that had been waxed before the outbreak of the 2nd World War. This was probably due to the...
The Virginians (dir. by Ross Gorman) - Kiss Mama, Kiss Papa, Fox-Trot (George Fairman) HMV 1922 (Recorded in USA; UK product) NOTE: The rather innocuous title of this song suggests a morning situation in which a child goes to school and, on the porch, says goodbye with a kiss to mum and dad. But nothing of the sort! The song's lyrics describe the evening hours, when such commands are given by a young couple living next door and heard through the wall, in situations which seem to have little to do with the innocence of the title.... The...
The Rhythmic Eight (Bert Firman’s Orchestra) – Fascinatin’ Vamp, Fox-Trot (Nussbaum) with Vocal refrain, Zonophone (UK) 1928 ATTENTION! This is a new version of the previously posted clip of this recording by The Rhythmic Eight orchestra. I wasn't entirely happy with the previous one, however, and made a new one. I think this music and theme deserves the best cinematography. Enjoy it! NOTE: Bert FIRMAN (b. Herbert Feuerman 1906 in London – d. 1999) – British bandleader of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. His mother was Polish and his father was...
The Rhythmic Eight (Bert Firman’s Ensemble) – Fascinatin’ Vamp, Fox-Trot (Nussbaum) with Vocal refrain, Zonophone (UK) 1928 NOTE: Bert FIRMAN (b. Herbert Feuerman 1906 in London – d. 1999) – British bandleader of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. His mother was Polish and his father was a professional musician who emigrated to UK from Austria-Hungary in the late 1880s. Herbert took up the violin at an early age and won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music. At age of 13 he was engaged at the Playhouse Theatre, London, where was part of...
Orkiestra taneczna Dajos Béla (Dajos Béla Tanz-Orchester) – Twój uśmiech [Your Smile] Muzyka: Artur Gold, English waltz from theatre Morskie Oko revue “The Million Zlotys” (Boston z rewii “Milion złotych”) Odeon, 1931 (Polish product) NOTE: The Russian/ Jewish violinist & bandleader Dajos Béla (Leon Golzmann; b. 1897 in Kiev, Russia - d. 1978 in La Falda, Argentina) became one of the most prominent leaders of popular music in Germany in the 1920s. His dance orchestra performed in the best entertainment venues in Berlin during the Weimar...
Mozart, Requiem (Kyrie|) - Wiener Singverein - Requiem In D Minor, K.626 - Kyrie (1962) NOTE: This monumental music bids last farewell to our beloved Pope Benedict XVI, whose funeral took place today on Thursday, 05th Jan 2023 in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. During his long life, he was a true lover of great music and I believe, that our parting with him which we experienced in recent days on this channel together with works by Schubert, Bach and Mozart, was dear to his heart. Requiescat In Pace, Joseph Ratzinger!
Yvonne Arnaud, Pianoforte – Allegro In F Minor (J.S.Bach) & String Orch. cond. by John Barbirolli, Victor (USA; orig. rec. in UK, 1932) DEDICATION In memory of the late Pope Benedict XVI whose funeral will take place in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on Thursday 5 January 2023 The slideshow presents photographs of several German cathedrals (in Münster, Köln, Tübingen, Regensburg)...
Frieda Hempel , Soprano – Ave Maria (Schubert) Schallplatte Grammophon, 1921 (German) DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF POPE BENEDICT XVI (16 April 1927-31 December 2022) NOTE: When two days ago, on the eve of the end of 2022, I posted on this channel a cheerful New Year's Eve swing sung by Ella Fitzgerald - appropriate to the fun-filled and hopeful mood of the final hours of the Old Year - I never imagined that today, on the...