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Mieczysław Fogg - Ostatnia niedziela, 1936

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The „Last Sunday" -- erroneously called „THAT Last Sunday" -- was composed by Jerzy Petersburski in 1936. It is a nostalgic tango with lyrics by Zenon Friedwald describing the final meeting of former lovers who are parting. The Polish title was "To Ostatnia Niedziela" ("The Last Sunday"). The song was extremely popular and was performed by numerous artists (best kown performance by Mieczysław Folg). Along the way, it first gained the nick-name of "Suicide Tango" due to its sad lyric (although, the real „suicie song" in the night restaurants of Eastern Europe -- where the shoot in the brow at 12 at night was not any unusual happening - was In 1930s another sad „Sunday": the „Gloomy Sunday" (in Polish: „Smutna niedziela") by a Hungarian composer Rezső Seress. (Soon, an international hit; in the US sung by Billie Holiday).
But this Polish „Last Sunday" song also had a terribly sad fate. During World War II In the concentrations camps it was often played while Jewish prisoners were led to the gas chambers and ovens, to be executed. During World War II its Russian version was prepared by Iosif Alveg and performed by Leonid Utyosov under the title of "Weary Sun" (Russian: "Utomlyennoye Solntse"). After World War II, the song remained largely successful and appeared in a number of films, including Yuriy Norshteyn's 1979 "Tale of Tales" (considered by many international critics to be the greatest animated film ever made), the award-winning Krzysztof Kieślowski's "White" (1994) and Nikita Mikhalkov's "Burnt by the Sun" of the same year. The Russian title of the song also became the name-sake for the latter film and -- as the result - even the more educated and worldly Russians nowadays consider the old tango from Warsaw their „Russian national song".

Recording: Mieczysław Fogg - To ostatnia niedziela (Petersburski/Friedwald), Syrena-Electro 1936
See also Zygmunt Piotrowski's version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoudS2aF6Kw

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  • Nie mówi o tym ,że widziałem ptaka cień,albo kurde ,że wszystko się może zdarzyć

  • nie każdy niemiec był hitlerowcem ale każdy hitlerowiec był niemcem :P

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  • Обожаю! Потрясающее ретро.

  • @VingTsunFANATIC oczywiście zgadzam się z Tobą, byli mięsem armatnim, co nie zmienia faktu, że nosili symbole ss, pozdrawiam serdecznie

  • @MrJigto i byli mięsem armatnim a nie ideologami nazizmu

  • Już 82 :)

  • @patrykblabla Boże człowieku powtarzasz tekst ,który był wypowiedziany w filmie pt:Chłopaki nie płaczą " a potem się cieszysz że nabiłeś 81 łapek w górę , na drugi raz wymyśl coś sam to ci bd gratulować ;] .

  • jak mam doła to leże godzinami śłuchając Mieczysława Fogga

  • @VingTsunFANATIC nie zgadzam się była np. 14 dywizja grenadierów ss i byli to ukraińcy

  • @KontoZbanowane austriak to Niemiec a reszta to było mięso armatnie nie jacyś wysoko postawieni ludzie

  • @MrCoriane

    To było po rosyjsku, matole. Nie wiem, skąd wytrzasnąłeś ten bułgarski.

  • @VingTsunFANATIC

    Nie. Mógł być Austriakiem, Holendrem, Norwegiem, a nawet Ukraińcem.

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