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Roaring 20s in Berlin: Ich hab' ein Diwanpüppchen - Rosa Barsony, 1931

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Ich hab' ein Diwanpüppchen...genau wie Du (I Have a Sofa Doll... Just Like You) Foxtrot a.d. Operette “Die Blume von Hawaii” (Paul Abraham) – Metropol Tanz-Orchester, Leitung: Paul Abraham mit Gesang: Rosa Barsony & Fritz Steiner, Odeon 1931 (Germany) 

NOTE: German culture owes a lot to variety of nations which lived within the Prussian empire and in its continuation, the cosmopolitan Weimar Republic (- such is a popular name of post-WW1 democtratic state of Germany, which existed until 1933, when the Nazi Party won the general election). A huge number of Middle-East European nations: Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, Russians, Jews and many others contributed to the blooming of the culture of German-speaking nations trough all the 19th and first two decades of the 20th Century. A perfect example of that inter-cultural transgression is this recording, where only the refrainist Fritz Steiner seems to be German, while the composer and orchestra-conductor Paul Abraham as well as the German film star Rosa Barsony, are Hungarians (precisely, both of them were of the Hungarian-Jewish descent). The Operetta “Blume of Hawaii” (The Flower of Hawaii) was premiered on 24 July 1931 at the Neues Theater in Leipzig and its lovely melodies almost immediately became international hits: for example, the slow foxtrots “Blume von Hawai” and “Ein Paradies am Meeresstrand” were at once included into repertoire of the great Richard Tauber, so the foxtrot “My Little Boy” was hautingly recorded by Marek Weber’s Dance Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10jUYIgFO0o . Similarly, the Divanpuppchen-foxtrott  was recorded in 1931 by almost every dance-orchestra in Berlin, turning that hot tune into one of the musical-icons of German jazz-age. See also the equally hot rendition by Fred Marley’s dance orchestra (nick name of Ilja Livshakoff’s band)  https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=0CSmoBNOp74
and the beautiful Lewis Ruth orchestra's version of “Ein Paradies am Meerstrand” (with Leo Monosson’s solo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSE9SWIWPrU

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