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Marek Weber Tanz-Orch.: Wenn ich die Liebe brauch', dann geh' ich zu Pauline, 1929

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Marek Weber  und sein Orchester, Refraingesang: Austin Egen - Wenn ich die Liebe brauch', dann geh' ich zu Pauline (When I Need Love, I Go To Pauline) Foxtrot (Cowler /Rotter) Electrola 1929 (Germany)

NOTE: Marek WEBER (1888 - 1964)  German violinist and bandleader of the Polish/Jewish origin. Born in Lwów, Poland (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Marek Weber received his elementary education in Lwów conservatory in the class of violin. Then, after matriculation he traveled to Berlin to continue music studies at the Stern Musikshule. Despite his classical education, he had a crush for more popular repertoire, therefore in age of 20 he founded his own dance band, with which two years later he became a permanent resident bandleader at Adlon - the most prestigious hotel in Berlin. Beginning in the early 1920s he and his orchestra began to record albums, first for the Carl Lindström Company (under the "Parlophon" label), and later for Deutsche Grammophon. In 1926 he moved to the newly formed Electrola, and remained with this label for the remainder of his career in Germany. During this period he was one of the foremost recording artists in Germany, on a par with Paul Godwin, Efim Schachmeister, and Dajos Béla. Beginning in 1930 Weber occasionally scored films, but he remained chiefly associated with the nightlife of Berlin. During his heyday in the Berlin's Goldene Zwanziger Jahre, Marek Weber's 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.

In spite of his weakness for trendy dance-music, deep in his heart Weber has always been a conservative East European citizen and he never betrayed Viennese waltzes or another pieces of the fin de siecle European promenade repertoire. However -- as for many finest German artists of the Jewish origin -- also for Marek Weber, the victory of  National-Sozialist party in Germany meant the end of his world. In the end of 1932 he left Germany first on the European tour and then to USA, where  he became the "Radio Waltz King" of the NBC Red Network and frequent guest performer on the countless shows. After 1945, he purchased a ranch and retired from show business. He bequeathed his personal collection of violins to the Indiana University School of Music. He died in Chicago at the age of seventy-five. After his death, his widow established a scholarship in his name, for one male and one female violinist.

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