Polski Lwów 1936: Zagrajcie mi - Leopold Buffini & Ork. W.Tychowskiego

Zagrajcie mi...(Play It For Me) - tango (J.Rosner /Schlechter ; there's error on the label: Muz. Bixio, słowa Brojdo) - Refren z gitarą hawajską i orkiestrą S.Godarskiego (Vocal Refrain with Hawaiian guitar and Orchestra dir. by S.Godarski) ( Repressed by Melodje 1946 -- original production by Melodja-Electro, Warsaw 1936)

NOTE: Apparently, it's a famous Hawaii Guitar Orchestra dir. by Witold Tychowski accompanying Leopold Buffini. Orkiestra S. Godarskiego --was a pure phantasm; it simply never existed and Melodja label put every uncredited band under such name! I also have to mention, that on Melodje label the name of Leopold Buffini does not appear. Who was an anonymous refrainist was my own finding -- thanks to a fantastic monography of Syrena-Electro label by Mr. Tomasz Lerski. In 1946, a record factory Melodje operating in Poznań, re-pressed the original prewar Melodja-Electro matrix and issued it under the imperfect and erroneously described label. It's a very rare recording. Made solely for Melodja-Electro (a dime-store branch of Syrena Electro) it never appeared in Syrena-Electro mainstream production.

Leopold BUFFINI (probably, a poseudonym) was a local singing star of the city of Lwów, who also led his own "Speedy Boys" dance ensamble performing at "Casino de Paris" in Lwów, in 1930s. He was noted in sources as probably the first Polish singer who used a microphone on the stage. He survived the Holocaust in the part of Poland occupied by Soviets. After 1945 his name evaporates from the artistic life of postwar Poland. According to unconfirmed reports, he's been later seen in Canada.

The slideshow has been devoted by me to the vintage views of every Pole's beloved (and lost, forever) city of Lwów...(... where in 1930s one completely forgotten refrainist Leopold Buffini made his short and modest career and disappeared in oblivion...)

Attention: In the entering note in the clip there's my mistake in the name of the author of the lyrics: it is Emmanuel Schlechter, and not Szmaragd!

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[XxXEMOBOYx]

świetne tango, to jest moja ulubiona wersja tego tanga. Czy wiadomo coś na temat wykonawcy?? Pozdrawiam

[240252]

@XxXEMOBOYx Napisałem o nim co nieco w moim info, pewnie tam nie zajrzałeś. Leopold Buffini (pewnie pseudonim) był piosenkarzem i muzykiem we Lwowie, prowadził zespół taneczny Speedo Boys, który występował w lokalu "Casino de Paris". Podobno był jednym z piewrszych artystów, którzy występowali z mikrofonem. Wojnę przeżył, potem zniknął za granicą, podobno w Kanadzie.

[XxXEMOBOYx]

@240252 rzeczywiście nie zajrzałem ;) dziękuje za napisanie info po polsku , niestety ja ma tę płytę pękniętą ... Pozdrowienia ;)

[240252]

@XxXEMOBOYx Moje też nie jest w najlepszym stanie, ale przynajmniej jest. To rzeczywiście jest napiękniejsze wykonanie tego rzeczywiście pełnego dziwnej urody tanga. Gitara hawajska - której entuzjastą nie jestem - brzmi tu wprost idealnie. A głos Buffiniego, wprawdzie nieduży, ale ma w sobie naturalną tęsknotę i taką powiedziałbym przyciągająca uwagę "matowość". Na pewno całość jest o wiele lepsza od wykonania np. Fogga

[amarys2art]

Thank you for this treasure!

[240252]

@amarys2art Thank YOU! I'm glad that you like it

[slavskowron]

@XxXEMOBOYx To co mozna uslyszec , to nie jest jezyk Ukrainy - to Polski Jezyk. Slucha sie i jest to piekne i relaksujace

[1920sbuff]

Thank you for sharing this lovely tango and those atmospheric views of that superb city.

[daniel76150]

nice chanel , my soon living in ireland and married vvith polish girls , from vvroclavv , thanks a lot for this lovely polish Tango , congratulation from France

[dzheger]

@240252 G, I think that maybe your subconscious directed you to the sparkling "Emerald" rather than to the bleak "Bad one" :)

[240252]

@LeRoi715 I never visited Lwow in years when it belonged to the Soviet Union. It was too painful for each Pole who stored deep in heart the legend of a "beautiful & happy Lwow" to see communist flags on the city's walls, most of those wonderful churches closed, neglected or turned into warehouses etc. Today, as I hear from those who visited Lwow it begins to recover from its deadly disease, yet it's features are strongly Ukrainised, to the detriment of the city's historic Polish ID

[240252]

@munecojim Thanks! Lwów was truly one of the most beautiful towns in this part of Europe.