Adam Aston - Madame Loulou, 1934

Harry Waldau's valse-hesitation received in Polish a charming, witty text of one of the finest cabaret writers of the inter-war Poland, Konrad Tom. He tells us a heartbreaking story of Madame Loulou, who is so pretty, so charming, so friendly, and who lives alone "without any storm around her" - that she must be "a victim of a gossip" made about her by people jealous of her parfumes, her gowns and those men, who "only sometimes" visit her in her elegant apartment in a Alee of the Roses...

The great text and many first-class performers (among the best is Adam Aston, who relly touches the very fin-de-siecle core of this tune's style)made this song an evergreen - one of the classics of the Polish cabaret.

Adam Aston - Madame Loulou (Konrad Tom/Harry Waldau), Syrena Electro 1943

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[dzheger]

This sentimental melody evokes...Vienna!

I vaguely remember, though, reading about a small chic enclave in the Old City of Warsaw, slightly south of the Jewish quarter, that included the Alley of Roses. No idea why it stuck in my mind. I guess it's the one referred to in the song.

[barbcard]

Another beautiful Aston performance; somehow he always sounds both melancholy and highly romantic, a voice from another world which can easily be experienced in this world. And I don't mean ghostly, almost spiritual. By the way, I assume the word evergreen means a Polish cabaret classic?

[chanpunasalg]

HAI. Konichiwa.

[krapptacular]

What is with all the woman on Y.T showing me all this nakedness. LOL The singing is peacful.

[eruptionista]

Who IS that thoughtful woman at 1:40?

[brenter55]

just so beautiful and haunting

[YSL239]

My dad used to sing this song to me long long time ago:

" В музыке она была каприччио, в скульптуре статуэтка ренессанс. От всех у ней было какое-то отличие - Мадам Лулу, Бульвар Де Франс."

[ataman373]

@dzheger Lovely Master of Art... Alley of Roses and Jewish Quarter in Warsaw??? Come in Warsaw and buy a city quide, and then write... Maybe you think jewish communist in Alley of Roses after WW2??? Yes, they was here.

[skobliczek]

Pierwszy wykonał tę piosenkę autor jej słów, Konrad Tom. Było to w 1919 roku. Powtórzył ja potem podczas jubileuszu "Qui Pro Quo" w roku 1929, ale wówczas, gdy w Polsce zaczęła się obyczajowa rewolucja - ten tekst nie brzmiał już tak pikantnie jak dekadę wcześniej. Swoją drogą - jacy wrażliwi byli wówczas ludzie - jeśli ekscytowały ich tak niewinnie DLA NAS dziś brzmiące teksty...

[Pampalini77]

This song this is real beautiful !!!!

[pianolasociety]

beautiful, the melody is very much like Victor Herbert's "Kiss Me Again"

[westhoughtonian]

This is so captivating and terribly sad