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Polish Roaring 20s: Henryk Gold's Orchestra - Foxtrot Ali Baba, 1927

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Channel: 240252 · 2015 · Music

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Orkiestra Henryka Golda (Henryk Gold’s Orch.) – Ali Baba (Fred Markush)  foxtrot z rewii “Tego jeszcze nie było!” (from the theatre Morskie Oko revue „It’s never been  like that!), Syrena 1927 (Polish; acoustical recording)

NOTE: This really hot German foxtrot had its Polish premiere on stage of the revue-theatre Morskie Oko, presented in 1927 by Lucyna Messal - diva of the Warsaw operetta and vadeuville, singing in duet with a popular crooner, Tadeusz Faliszewski. The year 1927 was the beginning of the outstanding success of the new revue-theatre “Morskie Oko”, which was soon to become the most fashionable big-show stage in  Warsaw of the 1920s/30s. In spite of the Great Depression, which had painfully struck the economy of Poland, Morskie Oko theatre successfully continued its existence as “Polish Casino de Paris”. However, in 1933 it had to capitulate to the growing financial demands of the stage stars as well as the change of the public taste, which started to detest the Parisian-style revues, preferring the film comedies and less grandiose forms of presenting the literary songs and more sophisticated music. 

Henryk Gold was the leader of perhaps the best dance-jazz band in Warsaw in the mid-late 1920s. His jazzy arrangements of popular Polish and international hits, helped promotong jazz music on the rather conservative Polish music market of the 1920s.

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