Piotr Leszczenko & Ork. Franka Fox’a – Czornyje głaza (Black Eyes), Tango (Oskar Strock), Odeon 1933 (Polish pressing; Recorded in Bucharest or in Paris)
NOTE: Ukrainian/ Russian singer Piotr Leszczenko (also spelled: Leshchenko, Lescenco) - one of the greatest tango- and romance interpreter in prewar Europe - does not have to be introduced in this channel. His numerous uploads are available here with many most beautiful songs sung by him in the 1930s. Also in You Tube, there are dozens of fans of Leszczenko, so let me make my intro very short and only say a few words about the song. It is perhaps the most famous composition of the Latvijan composer Oskar Strock, who was born in 1893 in Dyneburg (Daugavpils) in Latvija and died in 1975 in Latvija’s capital city, Riga. Here is the Polish instrumental version of that song, played by Columbia orchestra dir. by Henryk Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJcM-2Tz8dU as well as the version performed by Marek Weber’s Tanz Orchester
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=XbU1iG7pypM Also in my channel can be found some other beautiful Oskar Strock’s hits “My Last tango “ (Moe poslednee tango)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Xjntxd9CM Sinaya Rapsodia (The Blue Rhapsody)
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=J9iCnoHltIA or Sleep, My Poor Heart sung by Tadeusz Faliszewski
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=Boe0YSBgyBs
The music is accompanied by the slideshow which cosists of phoptographs of Polish silent film actress Pola Negri, who was famous also because of her really fascinating black eyes.