"Parlami d'amore, Mariù" - Janusz Popławski, tenor

Janusz Popławski (1898--1971)

Opera, operetta and music hall singer. The artist of distinguished and versatile vocal abilities, endowed with a voice of beautiful "sunny" timbre. In twenties he learned singing and in 1927 was engaged to the Great Theatre, Warsaw, as an opera singer where he was singing until the outbreak of the war. Creation of leading parts did not disturb him to perform serial recordings of popular songs for Cristal-Electro, Columbia and later - Odeon. During the War he made performances in the overt Warsaw theatres. After the war, as early as 1945, he recorded first records for still existing in Poland Odeon. He also resumed his performances both in opera and in music halls. In 1953 he moved to Operetta in Gliwice where he took active part in the artistic life nearly until the end of his days.
His old recordings of popular songs preserved and still retains a lot of charm. Janusz Popławski, by means of his unique voice created the atmosphere - now of radiant joy, then of meditative pensiveness.
I like him.

Here sings only a chorus of the song, accompanied by exquisite Orchestra Henryk Gold
Columbia 1934

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Parlami
• d'amore
• Mariù
• tenor
• Janusz
• Popławski
• 1930's
• 78rpm

[hottchacha]

Can someone please put the lyrics up?

[jurek46pink]

It already had been done by me

and it is enough to open all comments

and find under my name (Polish version !)

There is also Italian made by someone else.

[elzuzo267]

Something bothers me about JP' s biography, even tho he was a very good singer. He kept singing during the Nazi regime, keeping his hands off a rifle, and then kept out of trouble with the Communists. Lots of artists probably did the same thing, but there is something sour about his lack of heroism during some savage times.

[jurek46pink]

I have to smile...gently, Elzuzo !

What a man, who could be a grand-grandson of Those People, sitting now probably in a cosy armchair - overseas ? - can say about "heroism" of those who lived HERE in the GIVEN time, forced to make constant choices, not knowing what may bring the next hour...

Oh, Dear !...

[danielore62]

hermmosìsima canciòn, gran interpretaciòn! sientan esos violines!!! sientan el gorgojeo de voz hasta su final. Muy bello todo. He desucubierto un gran intèrprete. Gracias por subirlo al youtube!!!

[jurek46pink]

Gracias !

[grublover]

This is simply DELIGHTFUL! Sung in Polish.

[sbd650]

I just love the arrangement and the voice ! Thanks a lot:)

[aristopus]

Bravo, Bixio. Not widely known, but brilliant.

[aristopus]

@elzuzo267 Thanks for the history. To answer your question, What could he do? He was up against a powerful mechanized Wehrmacht. Trying to survive was all he could do.

[sebreathnach]

Adore it! Streets, old photos, polish pudding -- the whole anchelotta! Thanks!

[CeaserXIX]

Great photos, too!

[sambucazabic]

a forgotten style but I just love the arrangement and the voice. Has the culture declined, you tell me.

[elzuzo267]

Sorry if I sounded sarcastic about JP's life during the War. He probably spent every day hoping not to starve to death or get swept up and sent to a German labor camp. Staying alive must have dominated his life far above singing. I have become fascinated by the lives of many of the War era singers on Youtube and how they dealt with living through it. And I did spend time in Vietnam, where the daily possibility of getting shot was very real.