Antanas Sabaniauskas "Ei Tu, Mergyte" 1933

"Hei Girl"

Antanas Sabaniauskas Lithuania's leading pop tenor, whose music was played throughout Europe, a wonderful and big-hearted man who died in obscurity, reviled by his government. The tragedy of Sabaniauskas life, parallels the tragedy of Lithuania. Occupied by the Russians with the collaborator Lithuanian government, Lithuania's greatest talents were judged by their love of freedom, rather than talent. When the war ended, Sabaniauskas was able to work as a singer in the Lithuanian National Opera chorus. In 1947, when the Communists found out who he was, he was fired. For the rest of his days he eked out a living doing menial jobs barely able to support himself and his family. In the 70s he was finally allowed to sing in clubs. Like so many things in our lovely little country, who knows how his life would have turned out, and how many people in the world might have enjoyed the singing of this amazing vocalist, had Lithuania remained free.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Lithuania
• music
• Lithuanian
• Antanas
• Sabaniauskas
• pre-WWII

[edmundpet]

EI  TU, ANTANAI !-

kas do dainorius!

[DamnKimPhilby]

Koks puikus komentaras :)

[kostgian]

hei!Antanas with your ei tu mergite....what sound pretty the accordeon!....

[ZaliaiBaltaSirdis]

@lazauskinis1 Aciu. :D

[lazauskinis1]

@ZaliaiBaltaSirdis

"... Nėr akučių taip gražių..."

[ZaliaiBaltaSirdis]

Uoj, ne, "nera puciu taip graziu" ;DD

[ZaliaiBaltaSirdis]

Ten dainuoja "nera puciu taip saldziu?! xDD"

[pupitukas]

belekaip fainai, aciu aciu aciu:)****

[AnaJilK]

Thank you for the kind words again... And thanks DamnKimPhilby for posting all those pretty oldies and beautiful pictures with effects of the old movie *****