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Fud Candrix Tanzorchester mit Refraingesang: Dein Süßer Mund, Du Kleine Frau (Your Sweet Lips, My Little Lady), Foxtrot (Colignon), Telefunken 1942 (Germany)

NOTE: In 1930s and 40s, Fud Candrix was the founder and leader of the best known Belgian dance band in Europe. He was born in 1908 in a small village Tongeren in Belgium; he studied violin in the conservatory in Luik and after that he traveled to Brussels to join his elder brother, who was a successful jazz combo leader and a saxophone player. In Brussels, Fud started classes in tenor saxophone and in a relatively short time he became a virtuose, touring with concerts in France, Morocco and Algiers. In 1936 he formed his own big band, and was active and extremely popular for 20 years. In 1942, his band was resident at Berlin's famed Delphi Palace, where Fud entertained members of the German armed forces. Fud Candrix and his instrumantalists, all of whom were strongly swing-oriented, played American jazz standards in modern arrangements. Original titles were translated to harmless German names: e.g. "Harlem Swing” became “Moderner Rhythmus” (Modern Rhythm) and “A Subway Stomp” became “U-Bahn Fox”. In spite of that, Candrix had been subjected to harassment by the Nazi authorities, a couple of his recordings were withdrawn from the sales and he was orderd to change his singer from a swinging lady to a meritorious and retired German refrainist, Paul Dorn. After the war, Fud Candrix continued playing with several combos and tried a comeback during the Dixieland revival in the Fifties. He died in 1974 in Brussels.

The photoshow – accordingly to the tune’s title, referring to the “sweet little ladies” of Germany of the year 1942 - presents several appropriate portraits of such Nazi-Sirenen, whose dearest one, lovingly kept in their hearts, was “pretty Adolf” (- as he was called by his colleagues, during his army service in the 1st WW). Passing currently the 70th anniversary of the end of the 2nd World War - which is considered the greatest catastrophe in the history of our civilization – has provoked me to make such uploading, my little tribute to that anniversary.