"On The Sentimental Side" - Rosita Serrano a. Michael Jary Orch., 1939 !

To Andreas "bobinobaker" for all his kindness - Berlin, Nov/Dec 2009.

German version of the song "On The Sentimental Side", known from - among others - wonderful late 1930's recording of Billie Holiday, here sung and recorded for Telefunken by Rosita Serrano accompanied by Michael Jary (musician born in Poland - as Michał Jarczyk !) orchestra.
Rarely seen and heard - record and recording.

Rosita Serrano (born 1914), billed as "the Chilean Nightingale", was one of Germany's most popular and exotic performers in the 1930s and 40s.

Unfortunately, like so many great entertainers, her career was caught up in the imperial entanglements of the Third Reich. While touring in Sweden, she gave a series of concerts specifically for the benefit of Jewish refugees who had fled the Nazis. When Goebbels heard about this, he ordered a warrant for Rosita's arrest on "espionage" charges.

Serrano got wind of the bounty on her head, and, unable to return to her apartment in Berlin and recover her possessions and her pet dachshunds, immediately left Sweden for her homeland of Chile. Meanwhile, her songs and movies were added to the ever-growing blacklist of entertainment banned by the Nazi regime.

In 1951 she tried to resume her career but hit speedbumps at every turn. Her repertoire was mostly in German, and in the United States, no one wanted to hear German songs so soon after the war. Back in Germany, she was unable to reignite the flame of her old career. And in Chile, she was reportedly looked down upon by locals because she had once sung for Nazis - despite the fact that she was a victim of Nazism herself. But she remained in Chile nonetheless, and led a quite impoverished life until her death in 1997.

(Voraxical Theatre website)

The record as well as all visuals - JP's,
author of the video collection.
No sound modification during transfer from the original 78rpm schellac was applied.

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[Squarerig]

Could you give us den deutschen Text zu dieser Aufnahme?Truly enjoyable and so rare! Vielen Dank fuer den Beitrag!

[jurek46pink]

@Squarerig

Deutsche Sprache unfortunately is not my language...:))

Sorry.

[snookerbee]

Thank you for posting this! ***** I did not know until today the german version of this song. I like also the Louis Armstrong version from 1938. It's great to hear the Jary orchestra with an example from the great american song book. Rosita of course is "einmalig"!

[jurek46pink]

@snookerbee

Mit herzlichen Dank.

The other side is with a German

song - in a similar musical climate.

[WQ673]

Rosita Serrano zaubert mir die Zeit meiner jungen Jahre zurück., sie war einer unserer Lieblinge und gab uns, mir und meinen Kameraden, im Kriege den Hauch und die Hoffnung eines Friedens. Genauso waren es aber auch von "Feindesseiten" die Andrew Sisters mit "Begin the Begin". Damals hatte die "leichte Musik" noch Melodik und Gefühl. Heute hat sie nur mehr Rythmus !

Wo sind die Zeiten geblieben ?

[Melanatedone]

the grain popping of the needle on the record - CLASSIC!

[Squarerig]

Jurek Sorry about that!I had made the assumption.

[Rudipolt]

Thanks For Posting!

Fine Song!

Aloha from Hawa!

[StellasMousiki]

rosita serano ! great artist very popular in greece I have heard about her by my mother but I had not heard a sing from rosita until now I have from your upload. thanks

[KnockelII]

Thanks for posting with such good, informative information. High quality recording.