Valse Mysterieuse from Warsaw - Opium, 1933

Tadeusz Faliszewski z Orkiestrą - Opium (A.Gold /A.Włast) Valse mysterieuse z rewii "Dodatek nadzwyczajny" teatru Morskie Oko (from Morskie Oko revue "Extra Addendum"), Melodja-Electro 1933 (Poland)

ATTENTION: In this clip, the opening info contains - possibly - a mistake! It'd have been better to write: the Orchestra is UNCREDITED! This recording has been labelled as Melodja-Electro - a cheaper offspring of Syrena Electro company and because of many gaps making the archives of Syrena Electro uncomplete, it's sometimes very hard to establish where was the original recording made: in Syrena studios or rather, exclusively for Melodja-Electro?

The complication is double-folded also because of strange commercial games played among record companies, which often exchaged their matrixes between one another, thus one recording sometimes appears under two or three, different labels. Also, very often the infos on the labels are incomplete or misleading.

In this case, the identical Faliszewski's recording of "Opium" also exists under Odeon label and with "Odeon Orchestra dir. by W.Eiger accompanying the singer" (whose name has not been mentioned). So, a question occurs: did Melodje-Electro sell this matrix to Odeon? If so, where was that recording originally made? If in Syrena studios - and such services were usually made by Syrena to Melodje-Electro factory - then, how possibly the band had been labelled as "Odeon Orchestra" with W.Eiger" directing it? At Syrena Records in 1933, it must have been noone else but Henryk Wars! (or, Henryk Gold)... Or, sometimes Iwo Wesby - who, as musical director of Qui pro Quo, was thus obliged to accompay the artist from "his" theatre rather than Faliszewski, who "belonged" to Morskie Oko.

Probably, the truth will remain ucovered for us, forever. So, let us forget the matrixes and instead, see also Adam Aston's version of that haunting melody... http://youtu.be/T4XrgDSwbQA

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[roybo1930]

Who the heck needs drugs?!! This video is intoxicating enough!!! I never had the disire to do drugs Myself as I`m high on GOD, life & music. Thank You so much for posting this BEAUTIFUL video.

[240252]

@roybo1930 And thank you for your great post! :-)) I am high on God, life and music too. Welcome, brother!

[barbcard]

Jadwiga is amazing and the sexy photo of Hanka O. is even more amazing. I've always thought of her as more restrained. Haunting melody which sounds vaguely familiar. Probably you played it for me in Byd. Hey, pass the vino!

[240252]

@barbcard Well, she was not a saint, at all... Will you believe, Ordonówna was the one who introduced a topless show into a Polish theatre? In on of revues in Qui pro Quo in the mid-1920s she danced and sung with a bare breast - ofcourse, her nudity was partly veiled - but also, partly UNVEILED! Naturellement, it was a scandal, yet she never was classified - probably in respect of the high artistic level of her singing - as typical "madame scandaleuse".

[neilkcoker]

Really nice quality and a lovely tune, thanks

[240252]

@neilkcoker Thank you! :-))

[tychaton08]

Merci"!

[neilkcoker]

Nice song 

[eldon12000]

Thanks for posting this. I love many of your Polish offerings, even though I don't understand the meaning of the Polish lyrics....but the music, vocalists and images are always so wonderful...and occasionally they bring tears to my eyes....and therein lies meaning! The beginning image of the Scouts listening to the gramophone followed by the many beatiful acresses was very effective, especially with the Scouts image coming again at the end. Thanks again!

[MsDobrita]

Wanderfol!

[1920sbuff]

Now that's a startling title of a haunting narcotically intoxicating tune :-) Fabulous!

[240252]

@MaisSimples I built into that clip a kind of a little story - I tried to make it clear, the series of film actresses' faces are imagined by the scout boy, while he is listening to that tune from a gramophone.

[240252]

@dzheger My Mother had the sheet notes of that song and I remember her play that haunted melody on the piano. I remember photo of Tola Mankiewiczówna on cover page. Why she? As far as I know, she never performed it on records. Perhaps, she was the one who sung it in Morskie Oko's revue "Extra Addendum"? I can't say, for nobody writes in memoirs about that show.