Commercial foxtrot from Warsaw – Morwitan, 1930

Albert Harris & Orkiestra taneczna „Odeon” dir. By Jerzy Gert Morwitan, Foxtrot (Hen-wy/ Ted-rey) Odeon, ca 1930 NOTE: Here is another commercial song sponsored by „Morwitan” – major cigarette tubes producer in pre-war Poland. This song hasn’t any anti-nicotine bias in its text. It is purely commercial and even – it enhances smoking as utterly innocent and pleasure providing occupation. So, when the side A of this record (which is the anti-nicotine tango “Nikotyna”) tells a tragic story of a boy, completely possessed by a killer girl Nikotyna, on side B we find a total withdrawal from this idea. „Nothing smokes so well as Morwitan/ it is available in every little store/ it will soothe you to dreams better than hashish or opium/ so go and buy Morwitan!” – sings Harris, to end his canto with the exclamation coda, in a very last second of the side: „Nothing, but Morwitan!” Seeing this, both authors: of the music as well as the lyricist preferred to hide their names under carefully encrypted pseudonyms. Oh, that brutal early free-market capitalism! The slideshow presents some of pre-war Polish posters. See also the Polish anti-nicotine tango “Nikotyna” : pl.youtube.com
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