Look Who it Was Random video

Polish Tango: Tadeusz Miller - Pozdrowienie od gór (Greeting From The Mountains) 1946

4,236 views · Published 15 July 2013 · 3:19 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: 240252 · 2013 · Music

Watch on YouTube

Pozdrowienie od gór (Greeting From The Mountains) Tango (Z.Karasiński /E.Żytomirski) -- Tadeusz Miller & Orkiestra pod dyr. Kazimierza Bryzka, Melodje 1946 (Polish)

NOTE: This is one of my favourite eraly post-war recordings. Tadeusz Miller was discovered as excellent young baritone singer in Szczecin in 1945 and immediately recorded very successful series of sides for Melodje and Mewa records, making him a singing star able to  undermine the position of Mieczysław Fogg, as "King of the Polish Song". Unfortunately, the fatal collision of his motorbike with the Soviet tank on his way back to Szczecin from the recording session in Poznań (where Melodje and Mewa Records were situated) suddenly ceased Tadeusz Miller's brilliant career. 

Tango "Pozdrowienie od gór"was composed by Zygmunt Karasiński - the Holocaust survivor in Warsaw,  saxophonist, bandleader and composer, who before 1939 was one of the leaders of Polish prewar song-writers' empire. He wrote this beautiful tango  probably still before the outbreak of WW2, but it had to wait for its premiere until the war was over and Mieczysław Fogg finally recorded it for first time for the Fogg-Records (- which was Fogg's private recording studio arranged in a dining room at his home, in a ruined Warsaw).  The song is beautifully performed by the singer and the orchestra, and still having that prewar charme of real Polish tango, although at the dawn of the Stalinist regime, which started in 1948, the heyday of Polish song was about the end...  For all those reasons, I selected for the slideshow several photoes of prewar Zakopane -- the  most fashionable Polish mountain resort, where before 1939, Karasiński's dance band had its holiday sessions in the numerous night bars, restaurants and hotels.

More from this channel