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Old Polish Tango: Adam Aston & Henryk Wars Orch. - Tango brazylijskie, 1933

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Channel: 240252 · 2015 · Music

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Adam Aston, Ork. Syrena Rekord dyr. Henryk Wars - Tango brazylijskie (The Brasilian Tango) z operetki „Szczęśliwa podróż” teatru "8.30" (from the show „Bon Voyage” in  theatre 8.30) Muz. Artur Tadeusz Müller, Tekst Krzewiński, Brodziński, Syrena-Electro 1933 (Polish)

NOTE: Sung by the most popular prewar Polish singer Adam Aston, this tango’s refrain begins with the exciting line: "Gdy w nocy pachnie kwiat magnolii /wtórując cichej melancholii/ Brazylijskiego tanga melodja dźwięczy w nas"... (When the magnolia's scent / and the silence of melancholy/ fill the night / The notes of the Brasilian tango /begin to resound  in us) and it was a great Polish hit of the year 1933. Composed by Artur Tadeusz Müller (see http://youtu.be/_PW3its_0AY and http://youtu.be/dAaiiCCSklU ) this song was presented on  the Warsaw’s popular musical stage in theatre 8.30, as Polish addendum to the German operetta "Szczęśliwej podróży" (A Happy Journey!) composed by Eduard Kunnecke. The show’s title Bon Voyage as well as song’s exotic lyrics made me select for the photoshow several posters of prewar Polish cruise liners, which in the 1930s were the pride of the newly-resurrected Polish independent state… However, that pride was not to last long, for exactly in the year when this tango was composed in Poland, the gentleman called Adolf Hitler – and not at all such a gentle person – was taking over the power for himself and for his National Socialist party, in the neighbouring Germany… But in the mid-1930s,  for the lucky passengers of MS Pilsudski and  MS Batory, a sad continuation of the story, fortunately, was not yet known ...

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