Tylko we Lwowie! (Only In Lwów!) Walc z filmu "Włóczęgi" (Waltz from the film "Wanderers") (muz. Henryk Wars, tekst Emanuel Schlechter) - Orkiestra taneczna "Odeon", śpiewa Albert Harris, Odeon 1939 ---------------------------------- This song was one of the last great hits in the interbellum Poland. It was composed by Henryk Wars to the text of the Lwów songwriter and poet, Emanuel Schhlechter (- who 2 years later perished in the Lwow nazi ghetto) for a musical comedy "Wanderers" (Włóczęgi) (premiere was in April 1939), with the memorable performances of two original prewar "hoodlums" of Lwów, Szczepko and Tońko. Those too were the most popular radio performers in 1930s, due to their on-air program "On Lwów's radiowave" (Na lwowskiej fali). Here, the song is sung - in a charming Lwow's dialect - by a popular singer Albert Harris, who was a house singer for Polish "Odeon". This song still today belongs to the "obligatory" songbook of every Polish Lwów lover. The city - one of oldest Polish metropolies, compared - so for its glorius history as its monumetal beauty - only with Cracow, now belongs to Western Ukraine. Lwow's tragic fate started on September 17, 1939 - when the Red Army - Hitler's most devoted ally - invaded Poland from the East - under the same pretext, as it recently was in Abchasia & Osetia, or in so many other neighbouring countries in the long history of Russia's imperialist invasions - of "bringing the peace and military ptotection to the Belorussian and Ukrainian minorities living in that area". Lwow was proclaimed the city "released from the Polish burgeois' and gentry regime" and the NKWD (former KGB) mass arresting, executions and deportations of Polish citizens of Lwow to Siberia, Kazakhstan etc., started. In 1945, that lively, beautiful, a half-million metropoly was almost totally "cleared" off the Polish inhabitants, who dwelled there trought many generations. See the clip from the original movie, with Szczepko & Tońko singing the tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHBiAhiddJ8