Stare polskie tango: 'Tango Milonga' = 'Oh, Donna Clara !'

Polish authors: Jerzy Petersburski - composer and Andrzej Włast lyricist, wrote a new song for Stanisława Nowicka - a 'queen of tango' and a singing star of cabaret Morskie Oko, Warsaw, for the opening night of a new season in September 1929. The song was titled 'Tango Milonga' and within a few days became a huge success of the artists involved. Within a couple of months, a haunting refrain crossed borders and soon was published by Wiener-Verlag, however, with a completely different text and a new title: 'Oh, donna Clara !', first to become a 'deutsche Schlager' and soon after a hit of the world. Recorded in many versions in many countries.
Nevertheless, in the country of its origin, Poland, still is regarded as the biggest Polish hit of all times and is sung - exclusively - in its first original version:

Tango milonga, tango mych marzeń i snów,
Niechaj me serce ukołysze.
Tango milonga, jak dawniej, grajcie mi znów,
Zabijcie tę dręczącą ciszę.
Żegnajcie, dawne wspomnienia,
Żegnajcie, burze i serc uniesienia,
Czas wszystko odmienia,
Kochanku mój, żegnam cię, bywaj zdrów.
Tango milonga, tango mych marzeń i snów,
Niechaj ostatni raz usłyszę.

Recording presented here was made by Mieczysław Fogg in 1960, a Nestor of Polish stage at that time.

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• Tango
• Milonga
• Donna
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• Fogg
• 1930's

[Icentrifugal]

where is tango, this is only pictures- no movement. A complete waste of time, who ever put this together and mine for the one minute wasted watching it.

NO- NO- NO!!!

[jurek46pink]

@Icentrifugal

YES - YES -YES. In Central Europe, late 1920's

tango was more a song than a dance.

And here is a story - if you cared to read it - of the most

popular tango-songs (!!) in Poland.

Don't wast your time on my channel - as there are

much more such tangos (!).

[rysio1948]

piękne tango piękne wykonanie przyjemnie posłuchać

[jurek46pink]

I mnie miło, Panie Rysiu - będzie wersja

zagraniczna na moim kanale.

[dumowska]

słyszałem to tango w wyk: Fogga, Faliszewskiego i zagranicznych wykonawców ,Jestem ciekawy jak zaśpiewala je Nowicka

[jurek46pink]

Czytasz w moich myślach, bowiem video jest przygotowane i Nowicką usłyszysz - pierwszą wykonawczynię !

Tanga mi ostatnio... "mniej służą", więc - cierpliwości...;)

[hearse76]

imponujące to były czasy :)a nie te dzisiejsze papparuchy...ehh

[OlgaaMariaa]

Och.... Piękne wykonanie! Cudowne!

[DeviantNico]

@Icentrifugal its more of a ballad - research wat your listening to as it may be the same name but western and eastern Europe for example are completely differnt in their music, jeez be a bit more open...

[88truvor88]

замечательное танго!!!

[szader]

Nigger, burn.

[siekiertrup1]

a ja gdy słucham Tango Milonga zamykam oczy i widzę mojego dziadka , który uwielbiał to śpiewać tańczyć , przy tej piosence stawał mnie na swoje stopy i prowadził , wspaniały człowiek i pisenka , szkoda ze ludzie odchodzą

[Icentrifugal]

Okay- I stand corrected and apologize for "running off at the mouth/fingers. I know nothing about tango in Poland. I will take another look at this again reserving my judgement for the purpose of learning and appreciating something of Polish tango, I should have inquired prior to reacting. Perhaps it is Utube that should index and categorize these such "tango's" from the actual clips which show bodies in motion.

I will look again for the purpose of learning something, again I apologize.

[wieslawl59]

@kudrameme No, not correct . It is a correct Polish pronunciation of the word tango- as in Italian. It is not English . You can check it on google translate.

[kudrameme]

I hear the lyrics as "ENCORE MILONGA..." -- not "TANGO MILONGA".... correct?