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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