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Janusz Popławski - Czy pamiętasz tę noc w Zakopanem? 1939

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The composer of this tango Zygmunt Karasiński - in 1920s the co-founder of Karasinski-Kataszek Band, the first jazz-orchestra in Poland - was also the composer of many pre-war evergreens, e.g. the slow foxtrot "Każdemu wolno kochac" ("Everyone Is Allowed To Love"), the foxtrot "Yo-yo", the tango "Pamiętam twoje oczy" ("I Remember Your Eyes"), and one of the most famous Polish tangos ever (composed just a few months before the onset of World War II) "Czy pamiętasz tę noc w Zakopanem?" (Do You Remember That Night In Zakopane?).

Being a Jew, in September 1939 he left Warsaw for the north-eastern part of Poland, which had been taken by the Soviets. In 1941, he established a jazz ensemble, "The Belorussia Jazz", in Białystok, and later organised a big jazz revue group of performers in Lwow.

After WWII, he returned to Warsaw where he worked as the music editor for the Warsaw Broadcasting service. In 1945 the citizens of Warsaw, who remembered and loved his music and songs, organized in the "Roma" - the one and only Warsaw cinema building that survived in the totally ruined city - the gala anniversary of 25 years of his artistic career. Up until 1968, he continued composing songs, e.g. "Deszczowy koncert" ("The Rain Concerto") for a popular singer Fryderyka Elkana, and he ran the radio program "A Thousand Tacts of Jazz". In 1968, a victim of the infamous Polish communist regime's anti-Jewish campaign, he left for Denmark. Zygmunt Karasinski died in Copenhagen on 20 June 1973.

The tango tells about "one night in Zakopane" - which until 1939 was the most elegant and fashionable winter-resort in Poland. After 1945, when the stalinist regime was installed, this refrain became one of the symbols of the high-life glamour of the pre-war Poland.

Recording: Janusz Popławski, Orkiestra "Odeon" pod dyr. Olgierda Straszyńskiego - Czy pamiętasz tę noc w Zakopanem? (Muzyka: Zygmunt Karasiński - Tekst: Aleksander Jellin), Odeon c. 1939

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  • Wielkie Bog zaloc za takom piyknom piosenke,o moim przecudnym zokopanym.Kupe rokow juz nie bylek tam,ale mi sie widzi ze trza nazbiyrac dutkow i leciec.Tynsknota zre duse strasnie.Jesce roz wielkie Bog zaploc.A jesce jakby fto miol jakie inkse piosenki o Zokopanym,to nagrojcie haj!

  • Ale świetna ta piosenka, ma taki niespotykany przedwojenny klimat, super, dziękuję bardzo:)

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  • Thank you for yet another wonderful video and for the information about Zygmunt Karasinski, whose music I have fallen in love with since being introduced to it by you. Indeed, because of you, I have fallen under the spell of Polish Tango and other popular Polish genres of this period. I so appreciate your gifts to us.

  • alexander Jellin wrote the lyrics of this song..

    does anyone have any more information on this songwriter and author from pre war poland?

  • Dzisiaj rano szukajac na Utube muzyki do moich zimowych zdjec z Zakopanego trafilam na to revelacyjne nagranie. Strzelalam najdluzsze pilki, powinnam ten utube polecic wszystkim golfiarzom w USA. Thank you very much, nie mialam takiej przyjemnosci od dawna jak wlasnie sluchajac tej muzyki i ogladajac zdjecia ze starego ukochanego Zakopanego. Moze Pan cos wymysli do moich zdjec?

    Pozdrawiam z Florydy

  • @vivalamusicavieja polish

  • Pięknie dziękuję za umieszczenie tej piosenki tutaj! To jest piosenka z dzieciństwa mojej Babci i kiedy ją usłyszała,niesamowicie się wzruszyła,ponieważ miałą w głowie tę melodię przez bardzo długi okres czasu,ale nie mogła przypomnieć sobie nazwiska wykonawcy,także gdy udało mi się odnaleźć tą piosenkę i puściłam Babci,było to dla Niej preżycie nie do opisania!! Dziękuję bardzo w imieniu swoim i Babci!! :))

    Pozdrawiam serdecznie :)

  • Piosenka nagrana w 1946 roku w studio "Mewa" w Poznaniu dla wytwórni "Odeon"

  • it is important to note that the author of the lyrics of this song was a polish man by the name of alexander jelin, who wrote under the name of olga org

  • it is important to note that alexander jelin wrote the lyrics to this song.

  • Czy mógłby Pan upoadnąć na rapidshare to tango i przesłać mi link poprzez PW? bardzo bym prosił o nią :)

  • lol super oldschool

    masakra jak bym słuchał płyty gdzies znalezionej

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