Waltz from Poland: Tylko we Lwowie (Only In Lwów!), 1939

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 "