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Paul Godwin's Jazz-Symphoniker - Hallo, Margot! 1929

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Channel: 240252 · 2010 · Music

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Paul Godwin mit seinen Jazz-Symphonikern mit deutschem Refraingesang - Hallo Margot! (Du lieber Herrgott schick mir doch ein kleines Mädel!) (Oh Lord, Send Me A Nice Girl Down Here!) (F.David), Grammophon 1928 (Germany)

NOTE: Paul Godwin's orchestra was one of the finest German dance bands in the times of the Weimar Republic. Paul Godwin was born in1902, in Sosnowiec (Upper Silesia, Poland), his real name was Pinchas Goldfein. In early age he left his hometown for Warsaw to study music (violin). At the age of 20 he travelled to Berlin where he formed his own dance band. At first he recorded for Polypohon (accoustic recordings) under the name Tanz-Orchester Goldfein. Between 1926 and 1933 his orchestra Tanz-Orchester Paul Godwin (also using more trendy monikers Paul Godwin's Jazz-Symphoniker or Paul Godwin und sein Weekend-Orchester)  recorded a countless number of records for European labels, mostly for Grammophon. Many recording singers -- with Leo Monosson, Franz Baumann and Marcel Klass as his favourites - were backed by Godwin's orchestra at that time. His band performed current hits (charlestons, foxtrotts, tangos) as well as longtime favorites of various styles (waltzes, polkas). Occasionally Paul Godwin recorded popular classical little pieces (e.g. Gounod's "Ave Maria" or Haendel's "Largo") as "Paul Godwin-Trio" or "Paul Godwin Quartett". In 1929-1933 he turned to cinema and provided many UFA motion pictures with hugely popular soundtracks. Paul Godwin and his orchestras were enormously popular in Europe. Within the ten-year period (1923--1933) nine millions of his records were sold. In 1933, as soon as Hitler and his fellows seized power in Germany, Paul Godwin moved to the Netherlands where he survived the Holocaust and he remained for the rest of his life. The war experience, however, made him give up dance music and after 1945 he formed a classical violin trio with which he performed until the 1970s. He died in 1982 in Driebergen, Netherlands.

ATTENTION: In my opinion, "Hallo Margot!" is one of the finest and hottest Godwin's sides ever recorded. This song was also popular in Poland. In 1929 a number "Hallo, Margot" was presented in Morskie Oko revue "Zabawki dla Warszawki' (Little Toys For The Little Warsaw) and Syrena-Electro issued two renditions of this tune by Henryk Gold's Orchestra. This is my new uploading of the record I presented in YT in 2007. I think it's such a remarkable jazzy number that it deserves better and more sophisticated visual frame than the one I was able to present 3 years ago.

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