Chór Dana - Wiem, Tango-chanson, 1936

Wiem (Po co serce łudzić) (I Know/ No Use Illuding Your Heart) Tango-chanson (W.Dan/ Kończyc) - Chór Dana, Odeon 1936

NOTE: Here's another wonderful composition of Władysław Dan (Daniłowski) - founder of Chór Dana, the best revellers' band in prewar Poland, and author of the most beautiful, melancholic tangoes and ballads (his nick name in the artistic circles of Warsaw in those days was "the aristocrat of the song"). His was the evergreen "Co nam zostało z tych lat" (What's Been Left To Us From All Those Years?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DYhkmCHY_A and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzTj9O9Z-k8 a haunting blues from the film "Biała trucizna"- "Melodia" which sometimes is considered as the most beautiful interwar Polish song, ever! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnzaYxWZV5c or Mira Zimińska's greatest hit "Pokoik na Hożej" (A Little Room In Hoża Street). In the beginning of WW2 Dan managed to leave Poland via Lwow ad Romania. In 1940 he emigrated to USA, where he established his own phonographic business (Dana Records) in New York, as well as "Dana Publishing Company" in Miami Beach. He died in 2000, in the age of 98.

In the slideshow are the unique photographs of prewar Warsaw.

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[AriaLenskovo]

Very moving tango, and such evocative photographs of Warsaw.

[240252]

Thank you, yest, the climate of this song goes very well with the nostalgic scenes from a nonexisting city

[Iwamak]

So sad, so true, so beautiful...

[240252]

Thank you, indeed, the prewar photographs of Warsaw always fill us with melancholy and even saddness, whatever scenes they portray. That city was so injustfully sentenced by the history and my generation still cannot put up with it

[tango3721]

Hello Grzegorz - all those dancing places in Warsaw come alive - like friendly angelic memories - from my father' stories of his "conquest" of most beautiful ladies there - with his phenomenal Tango moves! Thanks!!!

[240252]

Thanks Lana, I was thinking of you when choosing and preparing this tune. Hence the rather wornout record and the surface noise stronger than usually, there's is no doubt, it's one of most beautifuil songs in my collection. Dan's copmpositions have no competition in that "slow-tango-blues genre". And how I love that discreet harmonium & piano accompaniament!

[kyemey]

Beatiful !

[Iwamak]

"Niech wszystko runie, niech raz skończy się..."

[Ziuk1990]

Piosenka piękna jak zawsze :)

Mała korekta: 2:05 to nie Nowy Świat, tylko skrzyżowanie Alej Jerozolimskich z Marszałkowską - widoczna w głębi kamienica z restauracją "Żywiec" i widocznym neonem "PIJCIE PIWO ŻYWIECKIE" stała w miejscu rotundy PKO...

[100lemon]

thank you and what an opportunity to see pictures of pre war poland . what history

[genia106]

Grzegorz,

I love this tango. I love the photos of SLYCZNA WARSZAWA and the people enjoying themselves and yet I am so sad because of ii's destruction. This song is a Masterpiece, so elegant and melancholy and soulful. Dziekuje.

I can't help but think of all the people who listened to this JEWEL.

[dumowska]

piękne nagranie