Henryk Wars E. Bodo ?????? ?? ????/?????????? ??????? Lwow Tea-Jazz 1946 USSR 78

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Henryk Wars (birth name Warszawski, or Warszowski) (29 December 1902 – 1 September 1977) was a Polish-born American pop music composer.  He composed scores for 50 films during the interwar period in Poland and 60 more in the United States. Wars was born to a Jewish musical family in the Russian partition of Poland. He began studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon obtained a  scholarship to the Music Conservatory in Warsaw, from which he graduated in 1925, having studied composition with Professor Roman Statkowski  and Emil M?ynarski. He was a long-time music director for Syrena Rekord. In 1927 he composed a song called New York Times ("I do nothing all day  but read the New York Times") that was sung in the Karuzela (Merry-Go-Round) Theatre by Tadeusz Olsza and recorded by Henryk Gold's  Orchestra for Syrena Rekord. His first big hit, though, was Zata?czmy tango (Let's Dance a Tango), composed in 1928 for Stanis?awa Nowicka and  Eugeniusz Bodo. He was hired as a pianist for the Morskie Oko theater and joined Henryk Gold's band. During the 1930s, he composed songs for a string of musical comedies in Poland, and his importance there is comparable to that of Irving Berlin in  America. His melodies from this period (along with those of Jerzy Petersburski and Zygmunt Wiehler) are still quite popular in Poland to this day,  with his most popular songs often associated with pre-war Lwów. Recent recordings include Ach, ?pij kochanie (Ah, Sleep My Darling) by Grzegorz  Turnau and others, as well as many performances of Tylko we Lwowie. In 2002, the song Umówi?em si? z ni? na dziewi?t? (I have a date with her at  nine) appeared in The Pianist directed by Roman Pola?ski. "He was the pioneer of swing music in Poland." Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he was drafted into the Polish Army and served in the defense of Poland in 1939. He was taken prisoner of war by the German army but managed to escape from a stopped train. He organized the big band Tea-Jazz in Soviet Lwów (Former Polish territory) in 1940. In late 1941, he and his musicians joined the Polish II Corps of General Anders as part of the Polska Parada cabaret. After being demobilized  from the army in 1947, he emigrated to the US. In the US, he changed his name to Henry Vars and after a period of struggling and poverty, managed to resume his musical career. He was a friend of  John Wayne's. His songs were sung by such well-known stars as Margaret Whiting, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Brenda Lee and Dinah Shore.  He composed the score and the title song for the Flipper movie and television series, as well as Daktari. He also composed score for the 1956 western  film Gun the Man Down.


Eugeniusz Bodo (born Bohdan Eugène Junod; 1899 – 1943) was a film director, producer and one of the most popular Polish actors and comedians of  the inter-war period. He starred in some of the most popular Polish film productions of the 1930s, including His Excellency, The Shop Assistant  (Polish: Jego ekscelencja subiekt), Czy Lucyna to dziewczyna? and Pie?niarz Warszawy. A skilled singer, he became one of the icons of Polish musical  comedies of the time and a symbol of Polish commercial cinema. Towards the end of that decade he also became a successful entrepreneur, a co-owner  of a successful film studio, a café and a producers company. Arrested by the Soviets in the aftermath of the German invasion of Poland, he perished in  the Gulag.
During the German Invasion of Poland he organized recitals for the Polish soldiers and civilians during the Siege of Warsaw. He then fled to Lwów,  where he joined the Tea-Jazz band led by Henryk Wars. With that troupe he toured Soviet Union in 1940, he also published a record containing  Russian-language versions of his songs. Simultaneously he started efforts to leave the Soviet Union using his Swiss passport. However, shortly after the  German invasion of the Soviet Union he was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to 5 years.

MEGA RARE 78 rpm shellac record from 1946!!! On this 1946 edition names of Henryk Wars and E. Bodo were removed from the labels and soon almost all  pressed records were destroyed! Only a few survived!
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Eugeniusz Bodo sings
"Don't know anything" (?????? ?? ????) music: Henryk Wars
"Farewell song" (????????? ???????) WALTZ music: Henryk Wars

Lwow Tea-Jazz orchestra under guidance of Henryk Wars


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• Condition of disc: EX