Hello, dear Patrick! Yes, its one of the nicest performances of Chór Dana for me, I like when the Choir sings with a delicate orchestral accompaniment. Usually, they sung merely with piano, guitar or harmonium, while the discreet orchestral assistance adds so much to their singing!
Hello Grzegorz and all the clickers to this fabulous channel - Ms. Gorska composed a great Tango - on par with other Warsaw 1930 -1939 - Tango greats. Julian Tuwim's lyrics simply sizzle - he could - certainly come up with some hot lyrics - I also remember his charming verses for children which I heard hundreds of times as a child and never got tired of them. At any rate - my other "turf" the hilly vicinity of New York will have some snow on the near-by - mountains - tomorrow - but before than happens - tonight is a cold, rainy night. Have a great weekend - Grzegorz - all the clickers and all of us here!
Dear Lana, the text of this song contains a line by Julian Tuwim which writes: "..and God has created this world only to give us this night". In prewar Poland, it was a source of a small scandal, when the religious press protested against that - as it was called '- "blasphemy". My father told me that when in early 1930s he attended the military course for students on a camp near Poznań, they made their marching route during exercises as close as possible to the people leaving the Sunday mass, and started singing loudly, a capella in a marching tempo exactly this line. Bad boys, they had a lot of fun to see anger of the Sunday ladies and parish priest hearing it! .
Wprawdzie to nagranie było już na YT przez innych prezentowane, ale według mnie dobrego nigdy za wiele. I jaka to przyjemność, wędrować przez chwilę nocą ulicami przedwojennej Warszawy, w towarzystwie tej pięknej melodii! Poza tym bardzo lubię te płytę również z tego powodu, że ma naklejkę ze Lwowa i chciałem ją pokazać.
Thank you, Natalia. I'm glad that you enjoyed this song. The words are a written by the fine Polish poet Julian Tuwim, who begins his lines with a statement: The others were given by Fortune all the wealth and prosperity in life, a sack of money, a pile of precious stones, yet we have nothing, literally nothing but just this one and most precious night given to us.
