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Polish hit of 1929: Faliszewski - Szkarłatne róże (The Scarlet Roses)

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Channel: 240252 · 2011 · Music

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Tadeusz Faliszewski - Szkarłatne róże (The Scarlet Roses), Muz. Szymon Kataszek, Tekst Andrzej Włast, Boston z rewii "Uśmiech Warszawy" (English Waltz from Morskie Oko revue The Smile of Warsaw), Syrena-Electro 1929 (Polish)

NOTE: Attention! In my film I mistakenly used wrong name of composer Szymon Kataszek!  - I footnoted his photo as "Stanisław". 

In my opinion, Szymon Kataszek  was - next to Artur Gold - one of the most jazzy and "hottest" composers in prewar Warsaw.  His foxtrotts, charlestons, shimmies - which very often, were composed by him togeher with his jazzband partner, Zygmunt Karasiński -  such as "Czy pani mieszka sama" (Do You Live Alone, Madame?; 1925) http://youtu.be/sK6RpYQzaCo  "Spotkajmy się na Nowym Świecie" (Let's Date at Nowy Świat Avenue, 1926) or slowfox "Każdemu wolno kochać" (Everybody Is Allowed To Love; 1932) were sung by all of Poland, becoming an iron part of the evergreen repertoire of many Polish singers. 
In 1920s, Kataszek together with Zygmunt Karasiński formed the first Polish  jazz band "Karasiński & Kataszek Jazz Band" which played for years in the bars, cafes ("Ziemiańska Cafe"!), music theatres and cabarets of Warsaw, as well as in the most fashionable summer or winter spas (Krynica, Ciechocinek, Jurata, Truskawiec, Zakopane). In Ciechocinek, they were famous to have been using for their show the huge basin of the empty swimming pool. He also wrote music for the sound movies e.g. Serce na ulicy (Heart On The Pavement, 1931) http://youtu.be/eCdm3bmQTUM or  "Każdemu wolno kochać" (Everybody is Allowed to Love, 1932). After the German invasion on Poland in September, 1939 his  war years were exceptionally dramatic, even as for someone who shared fate of so many Holocaust victims in the occupied Poland. As all Polish Jews of Warsaw, Kataszek was forced by the new German regulations, implemented in 1940, to leave his flat in an "aryan" part of Warsaw and move into the nazi-administered Jewish Ghetto. There, he tried for some time to carry on with his career, conducting the band of the  Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst (the Jewish Police of the Ghetto) but soon he gave up and fled from Warsaw to Lwów, which was occupied in that time by the Soviets. In Lwów he could perform in one of the restaurants - as pianist and bandleader however, when German-Soviet war broke out in June 1941 and Lwów was taken by the Germans, Kataszek instead of fleeing eastwards, as many Jews of Lwów did, continued performing in a night club. One night, during his show he was recognized by a German officer, who had for some time served in Warsaw and remembered Kataszek's face. Arrested and sent back to Warsaw Ghetto, Kataszek in 1942 joined hundreds of thousands of victims of the "actions" ( -a German euphemism for the mass executions and evacuations of  Ghetto inhabitants, down to German concentration or annihilation camps in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek or Bełżec).

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