Columbia DV 1224
The Ukrainian singer Pyotr Leshchenko is quite one of my favorite musicians - every time I'm lucky enough to get my hands on one of his records, I can't wait to listen to it for the first time, and I have a hard time deciding which of his songs I like best. But this one definitely ranks pretty high up for me.
In the text, Leshchenko remembers his youth in Bessarabia, today's Moldova, and the mountains, forests and fields that will always remain his home. He sings about the dancing mosquitoes on the river, about the gypsies with whom he spent much time and about his first love Margyola, but also how many years have passed since then, how much his life has changed like everything else and about his love for the “girl from Riga” who is his wife now (this refers to the Latvian ballet dancer Zinaida Zakit, whom he had met in Paris in the early 1920s).
He recorded this song at least twice. This version was cut in Vienna in 1933 with the Frank Fox Orchestra, with whom he obviously got along extremely well, as can also be heard in the numerous other recordings from these sessions (compare, for example, this one which I uploaded some time ago: [ Ссылка ] ).
More to follow...enjoy!

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