Our Pick of YT Vid of the Wk for the 4th Wk of Feb.2017 - "Our Is the Night".

        For the 4th Week of Feb.2017 we picked as our Video of the Week - a lovely piece uploaded on Feb.23-17 by Oliver - a young YT Video producer - titled "Our Is The Night" which is a famous Polish Tango from the late 1930's performed by Dan's Choir  in this version. It needs to be noted that this Tango was magnificently performed by many famous Polish vocalists - one of the most famous one - Mieczyslaw Fogg - in fact - started his glorious career with Dan's Choir.
       We picked Oliver's videos before - who is a young collector/expert on Tangos and other famous pieces from the late 1930's when Warsaw which was a big center for talented composers, lyricists and other creative greats - most of whom were destroyed by the Nazis at the onset of Second World War - in 1939. Warsaw - the "mecca" for distinguished Polish artists - many of them Polish Jews - who performed in movies, theatrical stages, cabaret stages and other artistic venues experiencing artistic renaissance - was destroyed with the outbreak of Second World War in 1939 which also destroyed most of that generations' - enormous talents.
       The music of this famous Tango was composed by an unknown lady composer Stephanie Gorska while the hot, erotic, beautiful lyrics were written by Julian Tuwim - a famous Polish/Jewish poet/writer/lyricist. I loved his children's verses as a child - so did millions of other children. When I later studied his adult works at high school and at the university - I knew that he was a genius since his erotic and satirical works spoke to the hearts of millions of his followers.
      The sunny, early fall day when they announced on the radio that he died suddenly - stands out in my mind. He was only in his middle forties. His numerous readers took it hard but the times were difficult in Poland during the late 1950's. The Communist Polish government at that time - had to follow Stalin's (Red communist butcher's) directives.  A lot of writers and artists who didn't want to produce enough of "red, government required - propaganda" - died suddenly under most mysterious circumstances.
       At any rate - have a really good coming week - everybody - and - as always - don't forget to click here next Thurs. March 02 or Fri. March 03 - 17 for our pick of YT Video of the Week! Also - please - check out our comments - by this vid - by tango3721 - you can also click on our YT channel - tango3721!

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Our Choice for YT Video of the Wk - 2nd Wk. of Feb.2017 - "Ninon - Smile at Me" by Dr.240252.

       For the third week of Feb.2017 we chose a video uploaded by Dr.240252 on Feb.14-2017 - titled "Ninon - Smile at Me". Dr.240252 chose terrific artwork of Paris circa 1930's since this version of this popular hit from the 1930's is done by a fine French orchestra and a good French tenor.
       Dr.240252 uploaded another version of this lovely song several years ago - performed by Jan Kiepura - a sensationally gifted, great looking and sounding - Polish tenor who also appeared in many successful movies in the 1930's. This popular hit has been composed by Bronislaw Kaper - a famous Polish Jewish composer who fled Poland when the Second World War broke out in 1939 when Hitler started his massive campaign against the Jews and a few other minorities - like the Gypsies and homosexuals and several other groups on the order of suspected Communists.
      Bronislaw Kaper did some important work in Hollywood - thank God. Jan Kiepura's sensationally successful career lasted many years; he frequently performed with his gorgeous wife, a talented German actress/singer - Martha Egghart - with their marriage also lasting a long time - notwithstanding all the pressures of fame and great popularity with numerous European and international - fans.
     When I was a teenager I visited Kiepura's famous, well designed villa in Krynica Zdroj - the mountainous, beautiful Polish resort. The Polish communist government turned his huge house into a resort spa - super luxurious and top notch - all the way. I can still taste the delicious coffee cappuccino with whipped cream - served on the huge patio - clean, spotless and caressed by fragrant, colorful flowers. 
     This pretty song was performed by Jan Kiepura in a famous, enormously popular Polish movie titled "Tout pour L'Amour" produced in 1933.
     Enjoy the video - have a good third week of February 2017 - everybody! As always - please - click here next Thursday or Friday to check out our choice of YT video of the week for next week!
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Our YT Video of the Week Choice for the 2nd Wk of Feb.2017 - "Fuzzy Wasp - Gypsy Romance by Yana Gray".

         For the second week of Feb. 2017 - we chose an extremely original Gypsy/Russian romance titled "Fuzzy Wasp - Gypsy Romance" uploaded on Feb.10-2017 by our friend - a fine alto vocalist - American/Russian performer - Yana Gray who specializes in Russian Gypsy Romances or Old Russian Romances - her most favorite genres which she mastered.
        Yana Gray picks outstanding artwork - as well - for her numerous YouTube videos; for this one she picks ships on the ocean and some wistful - romantic looking couples in love. 

       The original lyrics were penned by Rudyard Kipling - a British - nineteen century/beginning twentieth century writer/thinker - an enormously talented one - a poet/novelist - whose works were vilified - as racist. 
        It's an irony since the "lefties" of today - use this derogatory term "racist" whenever they can't point to any facts to substantiate their legitimate leftist claims. This - way - overused derogatory term was actually coined Leon Trotsky - a despotically power hungry - Bolshevik/Soviet leader - who himself - ended his career on a very tragic note - murdered by his "bodies" - in Mexico where he escaped from the Communist power circle of the day; however - in the early 1930's when Stalin "exercised" his reign of Red terror in the Soviet Union - there was no escape from his fury.

       Today's - young and idealistic Lefties - do not care to study the history of Socialism - since they are misguided ideologs - wanting a "Socialist Paradise" - crammed down everybody's throat. 

       A lot of the U.S. "lefties" greatly admired the Soviet Revolution of 1917 - until the truth started to "slip out". It needs to be noted that many U.S. and International Leftists - fervently extolled the Red Communist propaganda materials - until the truth started to come out in droves - as it always does. 

      The simple fact is that in any country in which Socialism (a little "brother" - making a way for Communism) - took power - it's proven to be a total disaster. The Scandinavian countries - B.T.W. - are not any cockamamie Socialisms - each one of them has a big Capitalist equation to their respective economies.
        A Russian/Gypsy Romance composer - Andrey Petrov created this fine piece in 1892 - thus this great sounding Gypsy/Russian musical composition was actually popularized in a successful Soviet movie titled "Rough Romance" from 1984 - directed by a Russian director - Eldar Ryazanov.

     At any rate - have a good second week of Feb.2017 - everybody! Happy Valentine's Day to all! If you're in love - keep it in the right kind of love's - mode - since according to many wise sages - love can be blind, deaf, insane and leading to "no good" actions. Needless to say - love can - also - be a great high - which needs to be experienced in order to enhance any human life. 

      As every week - don't forget to click here next week - either Thurs. or Friday - for our choice of the Video of the Week - for the third week of Feb.2017!

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For Our YT Video of the Wk. for the 1st Wk. of Feb.2017 - We Choose One by Dr.240252 - Again.

         For the first week of Feb.2017 as our YT Video of the Week - we pick - again Dr.240252's work - since his sophisticated but accessible videos are popular with us. He uploaded a very charming, upbeat jazzy work titled "Roaring Twenties - University Six - (The California Ramblers) 1927 - Rosy Cheeks" on Jan 31-2017.
      The video features - six talented college students - no doubt - all of them enormously musically talented - having fun with their instrumental solos. The sounds flow - cheery and uplifting. In addition to his interesting musical selections of all sorts - Dr.240252 gives you tons of useful info in a short, condensed manner which always comes handy for impressing people at any party or otherwise - in general. The visuals (artwork) he picks - invariably present intriguing complements to his musical selections.
       At any rate - have a good first week of February 2017 and as always do not forget to click here next week - either Thurs. Feb.09 - 17 or Fri. Feb. 10 - 2017 for our next selection of our YT Video of the week!
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