Ostatnia Niedziela - Zygmunt Piotrowski, 1935 video

To ostatnia niedziela (It's The Last Sunday) (Petersburski /Friedwald) - Zygmunt Piotrowski z ork. Syrena-Rekord, Melodja-Electro 1935 Melodja-Electro was a dime store version (it cost only 1,5 zl) of Syrena-Electro. Many artists disagreed to appear on this label (Adam Aston, Mieczysław Fogg, Hanka Ordonówna), while others were mentioned merely as "refrain singers" or under a nick (eg Tadeusz Faliszewski's label name for Melodja- Electro was Jan Pobóg). This most famous tango of prewar Poland (ex-aequo with Petersburski's "Oh Donna Clara") is performed here by Zygmunt Piotrowski, who was in years 1930-32 a member of Chór Wiehlera revellers' group, to join later Chór Juranda as their first tenor. He also recorded for Cristal-Electro in a duett with R. Marrot (Duet "Corda" see www.youtube.com ). That modest and little known singer, who most of his life worked as a streetcar operator, died of tuberculosis during the German occupation of Warsaw. I decided to upload this fairly wornout side firstly, because this "suicide-tango" had become a legend and each prewar Polish version of it has a special value (see also Mieczysław Fogg's version at www.youtube.com ) secondly: that scratchy, dim tone of the old tango matched perfectly these ancient postcards of towns and villages of the "Polish Atlantis" - the lost forever universe of Polskie Kresy Wschodnie (Polish East Borderlands)... NOTE: Polish Kresy (Polish Eastern Borderlands) - the term used to describe Polish eastern ...