Re: Russian Tango

[sophie solomon <sophiesolomon...>]

the tango was indeed written by peterburgsky in the 30s... but the lyrics 
are in Russian...

Sophie

>From: HNetsky (at) aol(dot)com
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Russian Tango
>Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 10:33:00 EDT
>
>Sorry for the tardy continuation of this old post.  Just wondering whether
>the tango in question is by Petersburgsky, and if he wrote it in the 1930s
>(and he would have been the composer and not the lyricist) whether the 
>lyrics
>were perhaps originally in Polish.  As I understand it, he didn't move to
>Russia until the late 1930s after he had already written many Polish tango
>hits.  -Hankus
>
>

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