"RAMONA" - Paul O'Montis, 1928 - featuring Dolores del Rio !

Great international Schlager, for ever connected with its first film performer,
the most beautiful face of Hollywood (Marlene Dietrich's opinion and...mine !), Dolores del Rio.
Had also a Polish version, recorded in Warsaw as early as 1929:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9KrZXS2Es&feature=channel_page

The present Odeon record was made in Berlin in 1928.
Paul O'Montis was a Berlin cabaret celebrity, featured in several major revues and on dozens of recordings. As a homosexual and a Jew, however, his career was ended after the Nazis came to power. In 1933 he emigrated to Vienna, Austria. He fled to Prague after the 1938 Anschluss (the German annexation of Austria). When the Germans occupied western Czechoslovakia in 1939, O'Montis was arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near the Berlin theatres where he formerly starred. He died there perhaps by his own hand in July 1940, at the age of 46.
(One Person's Story - Internet)

Sound transfer from the original 78rpm schellac without any modification.

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• Germany
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• 78rpm
• 1920's

[Inky261]

I did not know it was soooo old. good version!

[jurek46pink]

Even a year older !

:)))))

[megansspark]

Who can resist a wistful smile while enjoying? thanks dear jurek :)

[jurek46pink]

I was not able when the thing was being prepared - it touches me.

[GW828]

Ramona, Ramona, Ramona ... eternally,

always beautiful..

Thank you very much! G.

[jurek46pink]

In the mode of the "whispering tone", so in fashion in late 1920's due to invention of the microphone.

Paul O'Montis - a "tragic legend" of the Weimar-Kabaret. Still a delicacy for German connoisseurs...-

[brenter55]

i love this so much i listen to it over and over, it is  just very emotionaly charged thank you so much for this posting st augustine , fla

[brenter55]

absolutely beautiful

[bearcub410]

lovely song . but reading about this man made me cry , god rest his soul

[dunklenachte]

Ramona Dolores !

[jd03150]

All I can say to all the kind comments made by others -- is ditto. It is a great contribution to your YT credits.

[dzheger]

A delightful cabaret-ish version. Sharp and clever. What a tragic ending for such a talent.