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МИСТЕР БРАУН
Фокстрот
АБРАГАМ

Из коллекции Валерия Кеменова (Запорожье)
Mirror Transcription: 144 НКТП
Original matrix: Gramplasttrest and major ... # 144
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Experimental production > Leningrad - Kultprom 144 144 First reissue (copied or re-recorded matrix)
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Soviet records > Gramplasttrest and major plants 144 144 Copied or re-recorded matrix
Pre-revolutionary > Odeon-Record O-11639 Be 9850 O-11639 Original matrix
Leningrad - ZET > ZET (sphinx) 141 141 Reissue (original matrix) Base fund
Gramplasttrest and major ... > SovSong 144 144 Reissue (copied or re-recorded matrix) Base fund
Gramplasttrest and major ... > Interim GPT Labels 144 144 First reissue (copied or re-recorded matrix) Base fund
Gramplasttrest and major ... > Plant of 1905 Year 144 144 Advance Pressing Base fund
Gramplasttrest and major ... > Gramplasttrest NKTP (diamond, no plant name) 144 144 Reissue (copied or re-recorded matrix) Base fund
Title Name: Mister Brown
Language(s) or Ethnics: german, english | Catalog category: Dance Orchestra with Refrain | Genre (Music Category): Foxtrot
Artist(s): Hans Bund and his Orchestra
Composer: Paul Abraham
Lyrics By: Douglas Furber
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Bandmaster or conductor: Hans Bund
Recording Place: Berlin | Recording Date: 23-03-1932
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Record size: 25 cm | Label size: 90 mm
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Added by: kemenov | 28.01.2013 20:30 | Last updated by:  bernikov | 31.01.2013 00:38
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Yuri Bernikov (bernikov)
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Do somebody understand the true meaning of the dialog at the very beginning of the song?
I am confused by the intonation and meaning of Mr. Brown's answer "It's OK" - this way people usually reply on excuses...
  13.04.2010 14:20
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Юрий Бояринцев (Yuru SPb)
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According to the radio broadcast "Meeting with a Song"
this foxtrot is performed by Hans Bund orchestra (German group). May be they did not know all the minutest details...
(translated from Russian)
  13.04.2010 14:51
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Yuri Bernikov (bernikov)
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They new them very well!
The scene was played absolutely perfectly, with neither accent nor falsity! However, there is a feeling that the purpose of the dialog is to leave listeners in perplexity...
  13.04.2010 15:20
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Adrian Hindle-Briscall (Adrian)
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"That's OK"
I agree that this phrase seems slightly odd in this context. But the greeting is strung out into a dialogue which is itself rather artificial. The logical reply would be 'Thank you". Perhaps the "that's OK" implies that Mr Brown is a great man, used to being respectfully addressed. Though here there are no other words, this is true in the English words in a 1933 film version, probably based on a German or Austrian original.

Every day in every way, we must obey
Our Mr Brown from London town
What he does and what he says, must be quite OK
To please him, there's only one way

Chorus
We must say Yes to Mr Brown
No more no less to Mr Brown
He is the great white chief you know
And so no-one must say him No
[etc]
  09.05.2010 15:54
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Владимир Тёмин (xcallibure)
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Откуда пришёл Мистер Браун
Наверняка трудно поверить, но в оригинале, столь популярное в тридцатые годы произведение, было написано как венский вальс... к фильму "Zwei Glücliche Herzen". Вальс назывался "So küßt man nur Wien". Кто в последствии трансформировал его в фокстрот, сам ли Пауль Абрахам, или это было сделано без его ведома - непонятно, но всеобщюю известность произведение получило благодаря именно этим действиям.
  08.10.2010 22:39
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Raoul Konezni (Konezni)
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This seems to bee an illigal dubbing of Odeon Be 9850 (order no O-11639), recorded 23th of march 1932 in Berlin by Bravour-Tanz-Orchester Hans Bund with an unnamed choir, that sounds just like a group called “Sing-Sang Artists”, whose rendition is on Parlophon 128295 (later changed to the cheaper Gloria Bi 641).
“How do you do Mister Brown” uses the same melody as “So küßt man nur in Wien”, as both are sung in the film musical “Ein bißchen Liebe für dich” (subtitel: “Zwei glückliche Herzen”) made by the H. M. company. Premiere took place in Berlin, 3th of march 1932 (according to other sources one day earlier in Wien as “Geschäft mit Amerika”).
Simultaneously a French version “Monsieur, Madame et Bibi” was made and premiered 12th of march the same year. Shortly afterwards two remakes appeared: “Due cuori felice” in Italy and “Yes, Mr. Brown” in Britain.
The original movie is no masterpiece and perhaps only worth watching because of its musical numbers. The female lead is played and sung by Magda Schneider (today mainly remembered as mother of Romy Schneider), but in both respects exceeded by the now forgotten Lee Parry.
“How do you do Mister Brown” is carolled succeedingly by the staff of a viennese automobile shop during their boss’s arrival. Mr Brown is known to have never been in Europe before. The song doesn’t consist of its refrain only as the above record may suggest, but nevertheless doesn’t have to be taken too seriously.
  30.01.2013 02:00
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Yuri Bernikov (bernikov)
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Thank you, Raoul!
  31.01.2013 00:41
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