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Adam Aston & Ork. H. Golda - Tango Przebacz! (Forgive Me!), 1931

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Channel: 240252 · 2016 · Music

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Adam Aston & Ork. Henryka Golda – Przebacz (Forgive Me/ It’s Been My Mistke and My Fault) Tango (Jerzy Petersburski / Andrzej Włast), Syrena-Electro 1931 (Polish)

NOTE: Here is one more jewel in the large collection of the most beautiful prewar Polish tangos. Composed by Jerzy Petersburski – the hyper-famous author of the international hit “Oh Donna Clara” – this melancholic tango was presented on stage of the Warsaw’s most fashionable revue theatre Morskie Oko,  in May 1931. Browsing through the archives I did not find however, who was the first performer of that lovely hit. Possibly, it was an ephemeral star Vera Bobrowska, who was in that time strongly promoted in her stage career by her lover Andrzej Włast, who was also the director of the theatre. What speaks for that version is a dreamy, melancholic mood of this tune, which must have well suited Bobrowska’s small and rather melo-declamatory voice. Her style was to perform alone on stage, with a single spotlight aimed at her slim silvery silhouette covered with a snake-like gown glistening in the dark, and she used to accompany herself on a little banjo, sometimes with a background piano added to the arrangement.  I can imagine that song performed exactly in such way and we must stay with that vision while listening to this song, for no record has been preserved describing the way it was really performed. Some time ago I also had a chance to listen to Chór Dana’s lovely recording of this song.  As for Bobrowska: her last trace is her  photograph in the Polish arts magazine “Sztuka i film” (Art And Cinema) from Dec, 1938 where Vera Bobrowska is portrayed in a company of the Hohenzollern Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm, on her winter holiday in the Italian spa Cortina d’Ampezzo. In a subtitle she is called “countess” (!). So, as it seems, after having done rather average career as a Polish singer, at least she made it as a “German aristocrat”. Good for her. 

The slideshow in this movie ofcourse contains some photographs of the beautiful “countess” Vera Bobrowska and some of her toys.

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