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Polish tango: Henryk Gold Orch. - Tęskno mi (I'm Longing) 1934

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Henryk Gold & Ork. Columbia, Refren  śpiewa Janusz Popławski - Tęskno mi... (I'm Longing) Tango z teatru „Wielka Rewia" [Tango from theatre „Great Revue"] Muz.: Zygmunt Lewandowski, Tekst: Andrzej Włast, Columbia 1934 (Poland)

NOTE: After the fall in 1932 of the most popular revue-theatre of prewar Warsaw, Morskie Oko, its ex-director Andrzej Włast -- who was also the most prolific lyricist in prewar Poland - never gave up idea of running the huge Parisian-style revue theatre in Poland. Therefore, in years 1933-34 he gave shows in the enormous hall of the Warsaw hippodrome in Karowa Street 17,  which had been adapted for purposes of the elegant music-theatre. The scene was called successively Rex, the Alhambra and the United Operetta yet none of those initiatives did have a long life. Finally, a big success came in 1934 as theatre "Wielka Rewia" (Great Revue) which continued performances almost until the outbreak of the Second World War. During the war, the building was burnt and never reconstructed. 

Henryk GOLD was one of the most prominent figures in pop-music scene of prewar Poland. A perfectly educated violinist (his teacher in Warsaw Conservatory was the world-famous Polish violin virtuose, Stanisław Barcewicz) Henryk Gold belonged to the multigenerational Melodyst family of musicians in Warsaw  (composer and bandleader Arthur Gold was his brother, famous Jerzy Petersburski and another popular bandleader Fred Melodyst were his cousins). In 1920/30s, Henryk Gold run his own band called Henry's Band or Henryk Gold and His Jazz Symphony and  later more simply: the Henryk Gold's Orchestra, which performed in the most trendy night-bar in Warsaw "Adria" (he performed there ex-aequo with his brother's Gold & Petersburski Orchestra). In early 1930s he also led the in-house orchestras for Columbia/ Odeon/ Parlophon -- the most powerful record syndicate in Warsaw. After closedown of the Polish branch of Columbia, he transferred to Syrena Electro as director of its studio-orchestra. Gold wrote hundreds of shimmies, foxtrots and tangoes, among which tango "Gdzie twoje serce" (Where Is Your Heart) belongs to the evergreens.
Henryk Gold's orkiestra was relegated at the World Exhibition in New York in April 1939, to play in the Polish pavillion. Shortly after the Orchestra's return to Poland, the Second World War broke out. Henryk Gold was mobilised and after the collapse of  Polish defence, he left Warsaw for Lwów, where he was captured under the Soviet ocupation. He survived as bandleader of the orchestra which was oficially regiustered and toured in the Soviet Union (he led it ex-aequo with his cousin, Jerzy Petersburski). The Sikorski-Maiski Pact in 1942, enabled most of  the Poles, who were imprisoned by the Soviets in the Soviet Union after the Red Army's attack on Poland in September 1939 - to leave the "bolshevik paradise" and join the Polish Emigree Army, being formed in Persia by general Władysław Anders. As Polish officers, Henryk Gold and Jerzy Petersburski joined the newly formed Henryk Wars' Orchestra, with which they went through the whole trail of fire of the Polish Army in Exile: from Persia, via Middle East to Italy, where in 1946 they were demobilised. Henryk Gold decided not to come back to the communist-captured Poland and he travelled to Great Britain, Tel Aviv, Paris, Brasil to finally settle in the US in 1953, where he led several popular dance combos. He died in 1977 in New York. 

See also Tadeusz Faliszewski / Iwo Wesby' s Orch. version of this beautiful tango http://youtu.be/zWl_B7oDuqw

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