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DAJOS BÉLA (BIRTH NAME LEON GOLZMANN, KIEV, UKRAINE, 19 DECEMBER, 1897 – LA FALDA, ARGENTINA, 5 DECEMBE, 1978)

 

 

 

 

Golzmann was born in Kiev, now part of the Ukraine, of a Russian father and Hungarian mother. He served as a soldier during World War I, after which he studied music in Moscow. He then continued his studies in Berlin, where he started playing in local venues. He was contacted by Carl Lindström AG to make recordings and started his own salon orchestra, at which period he changed his name to the more Hungarian-sounding Dajos Béla, Hungarian or Roumanian music then being popular in Germany. Along with those of Paul Godwin and Marek Weber, his orchestra became one of the most popular in Germany and gained a high reputation abroad. He played a range of music, but for jazz music often recorded under different names, such as The Odeon Five, Mac’s Jazz Orchestra and the Clive Williams Jazzband.

As soon as the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 Béla, who was Jewish, started touring abroad. In 1935 he travelled to Buenos Aires, where he remained for the rest of his life. He died in La Falda, Argentina, in 1978. Among the many musicians who played with him or in his orchestra were the pianist and composer Franz Grothe, the jazz-musicians Rudi Anhang and Kurt Hohenberger, the singers Rex Allen, Paul O’Montis and Henri René, banjo-player Mike Danzi and accordionist Will Glahé, composers Wilhelm Grosz and Willy Engel-Berger, and actors Marta Eggerth and Max Hansen.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. Alraune (Klampf) Odeon A 45 763
2. Ave Maria (Kahn) with Richard Tauber tenor Odeon Rxx 80850
3. Campil frumoase (Alcina) with Alexander Lupescu baritone Odeon Rxx 127 402 a
4. Caprice Viennois (Kreisler) Odeon AA 68 069
5. Caro mio ben (Giordani) with Richard Tauber tenor Odeon Rxx 80 789
6. Chant Hindou (Rimsky-Korsakov) with Richard Tauber tenor Odeon O-8302 b
7. Då blir det solsken på min lilla balkong (Heymann) Odeon A 162476 a
8. Elegie (Massenet) with Richard Tauber tenor Odeon Rxx 80 849
9. Frau Meier tanzt Tango (Rosen) Odeon A 45 293
10. Humoreske (Dvorak) Odeon AA 68 068
11. Ihre Augen, Madame Odeon O-11 231 a
12. Liebesleid (Fritz Kreisler) Odeon O-6511 b
13. Morgenlied (Reisenauer) with Alexander Lupescu baritone Odeon Rxx 127402 b
14. Schwarz ist dein Auge (Katscher) with Richard Tauber tenor Odeon Rxx 80 488
15. Sehnsucht with Mischa Spoliansky piano Odeon O-2240
16. Serenata (Braga) with Richard Tauber tenor Odeon Rxx 80 788
17. Serenata (Toselli) with Richard Tauber tenor Odeon Rxx 80 849
18. Unter Orangenblüten (Meyer-Helmund) with Richard Tauber tenor Odeon Rxx 80299
19. Wenn du einmal dein Herz verschenkst (Rosen) Odeon A 45 775
20. Wilde Rose (Philipp zu Eulenburg) with Lotte Lehmann soprano Odeon O-8703 a