Kiedy | Oriental Tango

Recorded Sound | Digitized | RG Number: RG-91.0123

Overview

Description: Circa 1947 recording featuring Polish popular jazz band exiled to Iran, "The Jolly Boys." Performers include Stanislaw Sperber, S. Helishkowski. The Jewish band found unexpected sanctuary in Tehran, where they had been invited to perform at the future Shah’s wedding party (in the summer of 1939), and where they continued to perform as a group until the war had ended. Although the “Jolly Boys” never made a commercial recording in Poland, the group did record several songs in Tehran. One bandmate, pianist Artur Baigelman (AKA “A. Bay”), one of Henry Baigelman’s many musical siblings, did not survive the war.

Side A: Royal RT 105. Kiedy.
Side B: Royal RT 105. Oriantal [sic]-Tango
Date: Recorded: 1947
Format: Phonograph record; shellac; 10 inches; 78 rpm

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Recorded Sound Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this disc from eBay in June 2018.
Recorded Sound Source: Christopher Smith