Mon Homme (My Man) - Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, 1921

My Man (Mon Homme) Fox-Trot (Maurice Yvain) - Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, Victor 1921

NOTE: Mon Homme (in English: My Man) was one of the greatest hits ever composed. Made famous in France, in 1921 sung and recorded by Mistinguette - la grande diseuse of Paris - that song,which was composed by Maurice Yvain as a fox-trot, in upcoming years had made a triumphant trip around the world often changing its tempo in various countries into a tango or even a waltz. In POland, it was a great hit as a hot tango entitled "Blady Nico" which translates as "A Pale Nico", its lyrycs being a several stanza-story about a gigolette rather badly treated by her lover (- being every day beaten "to the blood", robbed of all her money and pushed down into the "moral bottom", yet in spite of these torments (or, perhaps - because of them!) falling still more and more in love with her crazy apache man.
Respecting all that, I made in my photoshow some effort to display various faces and genres of "mon homme" - a dusky character from the night clubs and dance bars of the Roaring Twenties.

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[tango3721]

Hi Grzegorz - love, love, love that fabulous photo of that Tanguera with a monocle in her eye. She embodies tons of most lovely and independent Tango spirit by which most prominent women - live their lives. All the artwork in this vid - is well chosen - your trademark. However this instrumentation is sensation. By the way - Fanny Brice did a great job with this song - but Barbra Streisand didn't let Fanny upstage her. Barbra's version was also dynamite. Thanks a lot! Great Sunday to you!!!

[240252]

@tango3721 I had somewhere the name of that actress but to my regret, I can't find it. Her partner is Hans Albers -extra class German actor of 1920/30s.That photograph was taken in ca 1925 by Alex Binder - one of the best German photographers of the 1920s . He was author of several famous shots of Garbo as well as the whole series of German movie stars of that era.One day I will upload some photoes from that collection - all they need is some perfect German tango as background.

[bambi68735]

Świetne wykonanie i ilustracje a ja z łezką w oku wspominam "Bladego Nika" w wykonaniu Ireny Kwiatkowskiej!!

[240252]

@bambi68735 Czy przypadkiem nie śpiewała tego Barbara Rylska, a nie Kwiatkowska? Chyba, że to jest jakieś nieznane mi wykonanie Kwiatkowskiej.Bo Rylskiej było bardzo popularne w końcówce lat 1960. Gdzieś je mam i pewnie warto by je któregos dnia tu zaprezentować - bo jest świetne!

[Grundsau47]

As familiar as I am w/ Fanny Brice, 'My Man" &c. I've missed hearing it played as fox trot.

Boy, they sure do jazz it up! I wouldn't have missed it for all the victrola needles in Seigel & Coopers!

[240252]

@Grundsau47 Indeed, it;s a true jazzy performance made out of that simple cabaret tune. A real master plays it. I adore these early recordings of Whiteman's - he was still a jazz player back than, before in late 1920/30s he changed his genre into a kind of a Hollywood -style "glamourosa"

[Grundsau47]

I appreciate your eloquent response to me.(Especially as it expresses my own sentiments almost in their entirety!) BUT,any idea as to why I received your reply identically in triplicate in my E-mail? So puzzled that my brain threatens to overheat till I'm too afraid to wear a hat...

[dzheger]

What an energetic, roaring version! They could almost do the can-can to this.

[MsDobrita]

Tanks a lot,my friend!

[240252]

@johnklyza Thanks! :-))

[240252]

@Trombonology Bille Holiday as a "pretty tough cookie"... ha ha... I like that vision... Yes, you are absolutely right! In my medical practice I met sometimes such cases: huge women tormented by tiny husbands and a rebours: giant blokes completely incapacitated by their female little persecutors.

[240252]

@valdo2est Yes, Ithink it was a music joke of Whitman's. By adding fragment of "Marsellaise" to the original composition he seemingly made his tribute to French origins of this fabulous tune.

[valdo2est]

@camille885 Maybe the little sample of Marseillaise denotes that this tune is originally written in France (and was added by Whiteman)? It's only my version.