Hanka Ordonówna - Książę, ok. 1931

[secev]

Ja ty kocham, moja Hanka <3

[brenter55]

just wonderful

[juniormateusz]

To me it seems like she was the for Polish people just like edith piaf was for French people.. WONDERFUL ICONE!!!

bardzo mi sie podoba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bukos1936]

@bolelsaw 

[bukos1936]

Skomentuj ten film...

Łza się w oku kręci.Jak pięknie,że chciaż tu mogę tego posłuchać.

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Piękne piosenki i piękne czasy

[kapestory]

Shimmy Americana - perfect example of a Qui pro Quo way of creating sense of a pure - non- sense: double modern and Shimmy and Americana) against old fashioned and alone but, yes, still ,His Majesty - Prince. Ach, Ordonka!

[barbcard]

Shimmy trivia: a dance move as well as a dance. According to Wikipedia, the word was coined by a

Polish dancer, Gilda Gray (doesn't sound very Polish to me!) when she emigrated to America. Asked about her dance she allegedly said in broken English "I'm shaking my chemise."

[kspm01]

Could it just be a matter of rhythm? "Shím-my" doesn't fit in the waltz metrum, while "Ameri-cá-na" sounds a lot better.

[kspm01]

Great song! Just one remark: the shimmy was nothing mysterious but a real dance rhythm, popular in the 1920's.

[barbcard]

I gave it 5 stars for its novelty--just wanted to let you know in case YT tampers with the star ratings again.

[barbcard]

This is the strangest song; I wish I could understand Polish so I could catch her humor. I do get a sense

she's contrasting traditional European culture (the waltz) with various "upstart" American phenomena, like the Charleston. Am I on the right track?