Old Foxtrot de Paris: Grock & His Orchestre - Ce sont tes yeux, 1928

Описание: Grock mit seinem Orchester Musette - Ce sont tes yeux (Those Are Your Eyes) , Odeon 1928 (German pressing)

NOTE: GROCK (Charles Adrien Wettach), b. 1880 in Loveresse, Canton Bern, Switzerland -- d. in Imperia, Italy in 1959. Swiss clown, composer and musician. Called "the king of clowns" and "the greatest of Europe's clowns", Grock was once the most highly paid entertainer in the world. He started early as a performer, learning musicianship and acrobatic skills from his father. When a caravan of Roma passed through, he joined them. In 1894, he debuted with Fiame Wetzel's traveling circus. He become a clown, adopting the name "Grock", and working with the famous clown Antonet (Umberto Guillaum). While not initially successful, Antonet and Grock did manage to secure a London engagement in 1911. Refining their performances according to audience response, Grock came to dominate the act, and they eventually split up.

By 1913, Grock's fame had spread, his act having developed into the mixture of pantomime and musical blunders for which he is now remembered. With the outbreak of World War I, he made Britain his base, remaining there until 1924, when he returned to continental Europe. He performed predominantly in Paris and in the United States, commanding ever higher fees, and his continuing success enabled him to establish his own circus in 1951. He retired to the Villa Bianca (now named "Villa Grock"), a 50-room house he built in the 1920s in Imperia, Italy, where he died in 1959.