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Shimmy from Paris, 1922: Marek Weber's Orch. - Ca c'est une Chose (That's One Thing)

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Channel: 240252 · 2015 · Music

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Marek Weber and His Famous Orchestra – Ça, c’est une Chose (That's One Thing), Shimmy (Maurice Yvain), Parlophone 1922 (UK; recorded in Berlin 1922)

NOTE: French composer and pianist Maurice Yvain (1891-1965) wrotye in 1916 the tango “Mon Homme” (My Man) – a signature song of the Moulin Rouge diva, Mistinguett and one of the greatest evergreen hits of the 20th Century. He wrote many operettas and popular dance hits of the early 1920s. His best musical play, considered a masterpiece of French operetta is “Ta Bouche” (Your Mouth), which was staged at Théâtre Daunou in Paris in April 1922. The shimmy “Ça, c’est une Chose”– one of the tunes presented in the show - is characterized by the rhythmic precision, imagination and flexibility of the musical phrase, which, as it seems, has much in common with the American rag-time. In the thirties and forties Maurice Yvain composed the music for several renowned film makers, such as Anatole Litvak, Julien Duvivier and Henri-Georges Clouzot. He died in 1965 in Suresnes, near Paris.

      Here, the song is played by the renowned Marek Weber’s dance band (which, on the British label has been named  “His Famous Orchestra”).  Marek Weber was born in 1888 to a Polish/Jewish family in Poland and was educated in the Lwów conservatory in class of violin.  Early in his life, in age of 18 he traveled to Berlin, and two years later he was the leader of his own dance orchestra. Contractred at the prestigeous Adlon Hotel, he started his international career, recording for Deutsche Grammophon and Carl Lindstroem recording concern (Odeon, Beka, Parlophon, Gloria) and performing in the best dance venues and music halls of the “crazy Berlin” of the Roaring Twenties. His band included some of the strongest jazz talents in Germany, notably the trumpeters Arthur Briggs and Rolf Goldstein, the pianist Martin Roman, and the banjo player Mike Danzi. His singers included Leo Monosson and Austin Egen. Enormously popular in Europe, Marek Weber managed to leave Germany in the end of 1932 - just in time to avoid the nazi persecutions - and traveled via London to the US, where his career continued and he acquired the honorable title of the American “Radio King of Waltz”.

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