Tadeusz Faliszewski & Orkiestra Syrena Rekord - Ach Ludwiko! (Ach, Louise!) Foxtrot z komedii muzycznej Teatru Polskiego „Rozkoszna dziewczyna" (from Teatr Polski musical comedy „A Delightful Girl") Muz. Ralph Benatzky, Tekst Oldlen (Julian Tuwim), Syrena-Electro 1934 (Poland)
NOTE: It's the flip side of the slowfox „Odwiedzi mnie pan" (You'll Visit Me, Monsieur) which I uploaded in YT last week • Polish tango: Tadeusz ... . The hot foxtrott "Ach Ludwiko" became the big hit in Poland, mainly because of the catchy name which, so nowadays as then, has not been common in Poland.Also -- the witty and very funny text written by one of the finest Polish prewar poets, Julian Tuwim (who, under many pseudonyms - including "Oldlen" - wrote songs and scetches for the Warsaw cabarets) added to enormous popularity of that hit in Poland in turn of 1934/35. The songs is simply a list of funny names of the little provincial railway stations which lay between the place, where the author lives and from where his beloved Ludwika comes by train to see him on weekends. In that respect, it can be compared to a very popular American hit from the Roaring Twenties "My Cutie's Due At Two To Two" (see its fabulous rendition by Ted Weems' Orchestra in YT • Roaring 20s: Ted Weems... ). Among all the phantasmagoric names produced by Julian Tuwim's imagination, my favorites are "Kudły" (the "Shags), "Dychawice" (Barely-Gaspington) or "Pipczyn, dawniej Wziery" (which can be translated as "the Peep Village, formerly the "Spy-on-ton").
The railway-like nature of this upload made me present in my slideshow the unique, in European scale, architectural project in Poland, in the 1920s. As result of the national competition, the overall uniform design of the local railway-stations throughout Poland was defined. It was based on the style of Polish country manor house, where, through ages, lived Polish nobility and land owners in the independent Poland. The style of such manor -- late Renaissance mixed with early Baroque - referred to ages of the glamour of Polish Empire (the 16/17th centuries). The need for such visual confirmation of the "Polishness" is quite unedestandable when we remember, that in 1918, when after 150 years of its partition between Prussia, Russia and Austria -- Poland was re-established as infdependent state. Therefore, one of the crucial tasks was the re-unification of Poland also in spiritual sense, through the skilfully used Polish symbols. On the photoes can be seen some of those buildings, erected trhoughout the country in years 1925-30. As we can see, they are really neat, tasteful, full of individual charm and a simple sophistication. Many of them, after reconstruction, still operates as railway stations today.
See also a very hot German "Ach, Louise" played by Fred Bird's dance orchestra • Ach Luise! / Fred Bird...
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