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Berlin, 1937: Hans Busch Tanz-Orch. - Komm mit nach Madeira!

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Channel: 240252 · 2014 · Music

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Hans Busch Tanz-Orchester -- Komm mit nach Madeira (Come With Me To madeira) Foixtrot from the Operetta „Lady Hamilton" (Ed. Kunnecke), Grammophon 1937 (Germany)

NOTE: This tune is of special significance to me. It was one of the favorite tunes in the collection of records of my great-aunt. She lived in Berlin -- which then, in the 1970s, when I with my backpack on made my student holiday travels across Europe,  was still a divided  city. She lived in its Western part -- and each year, starting my trips in June westwards from Poland, and then, coming back to Poland in September, I always made 2-days stops in her lovely apartment.  She was a little white haired lady -- one of those oneds,  you'd say they never grow old. A lively, full of humour connoisseur of Grand Marnier and  the Italian mountain spas. Before the war she had a restaurant in the central area of  old Berlin (Spittelmarkt) and still she kept in her flat some unusual old pieces of the restaurant furniture, china and cutlery, and also an enormous Telefunken radio wit the built-in 78 record turntable. Listening to her records during our long evening talks, with another bottle of Grand Mariner placed on the table between us - was a pure delight. Therefore, this happy and sunny foxtrot "Komm mit nach Madeira!" will forever remember me of those old days, when I was young and happy and Berlin was stretched at our feet, when we sat on my greataunt's little terrace on the 7th floor of her  apartment building on the corner of Kaiserdamm /Sophie-Charlotte Platz, with all that wonderful music of the Berlin's best jazz-days coming to us from the depth of her old flat. 

The pictures are not exactly from Maderia, and rather -- from Antibes, Cannes etc., but who cares. All those south-European summer paradises are alike. In my channel there also is available another rendition of this tune - recorded in 1930s by Adalbert Lutter's dance orchestra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAR5x0EIZno I think, both recordings are excellent (my grandaunt had the third version: by Barnabas von Geczy's band).  I think, this clip can be a useful opening of the season for those of us, who are already thinking, where to go for the holidays. Perhaps -- to Madeira?

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