Roaring 1920s: Bubliczki - Władysław Ochrymowicz, 1928

Описание: Bubliczki – Władysław Ochrymowicz, Artysta Teatrów Krakowskich, Syrena-Electro 1928 (Polish)

NOTE: Bubliczki (bublitschki, bubliki) were the pretzels sold by street peddlers in old Russia and in the eastern part of Poland, which during the 19th century was under the Tzarist Russian occupation. The famous Russian folk song “Bublitschki” became in the 1920s an international hit, when it was arranged by a Russian composer Bogomazow and carried out from Russia into Western Europe by thousands of refugees from the Boslhevic Revolution of 1917. Played by best dance orchestras – as the so-called-Russian-foxtrot (as it was in Poland and in Marek Weber’s version in Germany    • Marek Weber's Orchestra - Bubliczki, 1930   ), it was also sung and recorded by international diseuses (Damia in France    • French chanson: Damia - Boublitschki 1929   ) or even transformed into a noble jazz tune (e.g. Ziggy Elman’s haunting version in the US in 1938)    • Old Klezmer Tune: Bublitschki - Ziggy Elma...  
It’s successful debut in Poland was in the revue “Klejnoty Warszawy” (Gems of Warsaw) presented on the stage of theatre Morskie Oko in 1928, when it was sung by the star of Warsaw cabarets Zula Pogorzelska, accompanied by a popular dancer Witold Roland. Of course, another enormously popular Warsaw cabaret, Qui pro Quo – which in the 1920s was the principal competitor to Morskie Oko – could not stand Morskie Oko’s success and presented the newest hit in the version of Hanka Ordonówna – another Warsaw’s favorite singer of that time. Both interpretations were very different from each other: Pogorzelska’s “bublitschki” seller was a somewhat coarse and typically Russian “babushka”, while in Ordonówna’s more subtle version, the pretzel street-seller was a lonely and despised girl, helplessly trying to survive. We can only regret, neither of those performances had been recorded. Instead of that, we have the version sung by a popular prewar baritone Władysław Ochrymowicz, who during the 1920/30s performed mostly in cabarets of Cracow. See also a much later excellent version by the follower of Zula Pogorzelska’s style, who was in the 1960s a singing Polish actress Barbara Rylska    • Barbara Rylska's tribute to Zula Pogorzels...