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"Tabu" composed by Margarita Lecuona is one of the most sensual compositions of the 78rpm era... The best known recorded version is the one by his Lecuona Cuban Boys but many other recorded versions exist... Most of these recordings were made in the mid-1930s but many more were made at the end of the 1930s and the 1940s.

More info on Ernesto Lecuona can be found here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Lecuona

This video features a beautifully arranged version by the tremedously popular Swiss tenor Herbert Ernst Groh (1906-82) who studied in Milan, Zürich and München and made his first recordings in Italy in the late 1920s. From 1930 onwards he recorded exclusively for the Lindström company. He recorded not only classical parts but also schlager and movie songs. Hus enormous popularity led to movie offers as well but Groh failed to make an impact on the big screen.

The video features scenes from "Mandalay" - an American movie from 1933 starring Kay Francis - the Queen of Warner Brothers until the arrival of Bette Davis. This movie was made before the strict production code came into effect. In "Madalay" Kay Francis plays Tanya Borisoff who is suddenly abandoned penniless in Rangoon, Burma, by her lover, Tony Evans, who accepted a gunrunning deal from Nick, the owner of an amoral nightclub. Nick made the deal hoping to get Tanya as his main "hostess," which Tanya accepts after an initial refusal, just to make the best of a bad situation. She becomes notorious using the name "Spot White," but her affairs causes the commissioner of police to deport her. She reminds the commissioner of a previous tryst he had with her and extorts 10,000 rupees from him with which to make a new life. She uses a new name, Marjorie Lang, going to Mandalay, Burma, via the Irrawadi River by steamer, where she meets alcoholic Dr. Gregory Burton, who is on his way to help in an area plagued with a deadly contagious fever. As they slowly fall in love, she learns he's doing that to make amends for once operating on a patient while drunk... (source IMDB)

More info on Kay Francis can be found here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Francis

About the record

Odeon
O - 26 304b / mx. Be. 12343

Berlin,
1939

Record in good condition.

This record was recorded with a Ortofon Om78 cartridge and stylus. The restoration was done as truthfully as possible.