Tadeusz Faliszewski (aka Jan Pobóg) with Orchestra - Jak dawniej (Przyjdź do mnie...) [As Before /Come Close To Me...] Tango (Kwieciński - Maciejewski) Melodja-Electro 1934 (Polish)
NOTE: This lovely tango was composed by Tadeusz Kwieciński, who in Warsaw of the 1930s, belonged to the less well-known composer - among the whole crowd of first-class bandleaders and composers of that time, such as Jerzy Petersburski, Zygmunt Karasiński, Henryk Wars or Artur Gold. The greatest prewar hit composed by Tadeusz Kwieciński, was Błękitne Bolero (The Blue Bolero) recorded for Syrena-Electro in Jan, 1939 - just a few months before outbreak of the 2nd World War - by the popular singer Stefan Witas. ( In YT available is only the postwar rendition by Jan Ciżyński • Błękitne bolero - Jan ... ). IN 1945 when war was over, the career of Tadeusz Kwieciński took off - on the contrary to many prewar artists, who either died during the war or emigrated or were silenced by postwar communist regime in Poland. He continued composing, among his postwar hits was a lovely tango-ballade “The Summer Love Affair” (Letnia przygoda) • Old tango : LETNIA PRZ... , which was recorded in 1948 by one of the most talented postwar singers Marta Mirska, and became a Polish evergreen thereafter. Kwieciński also led a very good dance band, whose arrangements and recordings - very much resembling the prewar style - belong to the gems of postwar recorded music (briefly preceding the onset of gloomy era of the Stalinist mass songs, through late 1940s - mid-1950s).
The Polish singer, Tadeusz Faliszewski - in his recordings for Melodja-Electro using the label name Jan Pobóg - was one of the most popular crooners in prewar Poland. He was also very prolific in recording, his career covering the whole epoch of Polish recording industry, from the very last years of acoustical recordings (1927/28) until last days of existence of the Syrena-Record company (which was liquidated as soon as German troops began the occupation of Warsaw, in Sept 1939). Tadeusz Faliszewski was soon arrested and sent to a concentration camp in Germany, where he survived only thanks to his voice - which became a favorite of one of the German attendants. In 1945, after collapse of the Third Reich, Faliszewski did not return to the communist-occupied Poland and traveled to the US, where he continued his artistic activity in Polish emmigrants circles.
3 окт 2015
