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Das Lied der Liebe hat eine süße Melodie (That Song Of Love Has Such a Sweet Melody) Tango (Willi Meisel /Kurt Schwabach) - Paul Godwin Tanz-Orchester, Refraingesang: Leo Monosson, Grammophon 1929 (Germany)

NOTE: Paul GODWIN (Pinchas Goldfein) b. 1902 in Sosnowiec, Poland -- d. 1982 in Driebergen, Holland. Bandleader and violinist who, in 1920s and 30s led one of the most popular dance orchestras in Germany. He completed studies in violin class at Warsaw Conservatory under Stanisław Barcewicz - one of the prime violin virtuoses of his time. Then he left for Germany where he started as arranger and later, as bandleader of various dance orchestras in Berlin of the Roaring Twenties (Tanz-Orchester Goldfein, Paul Godwin und sein Jazz-Symphoniker, Paul Godwin Tanz-Orchester, Paul Godwin & sein Weekend-Orchester). He recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, promoting up-to-date international dance hits, as well as backing a lot of singers, e.g. Leo Monosson, Franz Baumann, Marcel Klass. Trying to be honest to his high musical education, Paul Godwin often recorded classical pieces, with his full orchestra as well as the "Paul Godwin-Trio" or "Paul Godwin Quartet". etc. In 1929-1933 he turned to cinema and provided many UFA motion pictures with hugely popular soundtracks.
Paul Godwin and his orchestras were enormously popular in Europe at the time: within the ten-year period (1923--1933) nine millions of his records were sold! In early 1933 -- immiediately after the victory of NSDAP Party in Germany -- Paul Godwin moved to the Netherlands, where he remained for the rest of his life. After the war Godwin formed a classical violin trio with which he performed until the 1970s.
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Leo MONOSSON (born in 1897 in Moscow, d.1967 on Jamaica) was a German singer of the Jewish/Russian/Polish origin. He spent his childhood in Russia, then he moved to Warsaw, Poland. In 1918, he travelled to Paris, Wien and Berlin where he settled in 1923. After completing the professional singing classes, he started his vocal career in vadeuville and in lighter repertoire. As refrain singer, Monosson gained in Berlin recognizable popularity, singing with various dance orchestras (including the most prominent ones, such as Dajos Bela, Paul Godwin, Julian Fuhs, Marek Weber or Ben Berlin's). In 1932, he spent some time in Warsaw, singing on stage and recording in Polish (one of his best sides was the Polish version of international hit "You're Driving Me Crazy"). In Germany, he recorded under his own name or under one of his pseudonyms (Leo Moll, Leo Emm, Leo Frey, Leo Mond, Leo Frank, Leo Mossner). He also appeared in 1930 German film comedy "Die Drei von der Tankstelle"(Three From The Gas Station). In 1932 he married Stephanie Arnsdorff, who was a photographer. They had two children. In 1933, after takeover of the political power in Germany by the nazi party, all Monosson's contracts were suspended. With his family, he travelled to Paris, where he tried to continue his artistic career. He even had one recording session with Django Reinhardt, yet Monosson's malodramatic style, which in the 1920s had ideally matched the public taste, seemed one decade later somewhat out of date -- especially to the French public, accustomed to a sophisticated "Parisian" genre of such artist as Jean Sablon, Andre Claveau or Fernandel. In 1941, after German invasion on France, Leo Monosson fled via Spain to the US. He settled in Ardsley, New York, where he made his living as international stamp dealer. After the war, he visited several times his family, that still lived in France. He died in 1967 during his trip to Jamaica.