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Paul Godwin Orch. & Leo Monosson - Schöner Gigolo, 1929

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Channel: 240252 · 2012 · Music

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Paul Godwin m.s. Tanz-Orchester, Refrainges.: Leo Monosson - Schöner Gogolo, Tango (Leonello Casucci / Julius Brammer) Grammophon 1929 (Germany)

NOTE: This is my re-edition of the recording which had been presented by me in You Tube, in2007 (Gosh! It's been 5 years now!). It's one of my favourire recordings from the brilliant Weimar-Era in the long and rich history of the entertainment in Berlin. This beautiful tango, composed in 1929 by the Italian-Austrian composer, Leonello Casucci with the heartbreaking German text written by Julius Brammer, immediately became a sensation in Europe. Recorded by most of the European grandes vedettes (e.g. Damia and  Berthe Sylva in France)  in the had ben re-worked on by Irving Caesar and became also a great hit in the United States, under the title "Just a Gigolo". In Poland, it was performed first time on  stage of the cabaret "Qui pro Quo" by Zula Pogorzelska, who danced it in a tango-sentimentale  tempo, holding in her arms a full-size mannequin of a beautiful  gigolo (although, Polish title was "Mały Gigolo", meaning "a little gigolo"). My aunt, who was a manic frequenter of all Qui pro Quo premieres, remembered that Pogorzelska, while singing, was  occassionally turning towards the orchestra to invite one of the randomly indicated by her male viewers  from the front row of the chairs, to come on stage and dance with her, in place of the poor, artificial "for-dancer" (in Polish, the word "gigolo" had slightly disdainful connotation and it was often displaced by the "for-dancer" - being a Polish version of the German "Vortanzer").

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