Puszta-Fox

Georges Boulanger (1935) ft. Marika Rökk

A big hit from 1935 was the Puszta-Fox from the operetta "Dorozsmal Szélmalom". The most famous recording of this track is the one by Barnabas von Geczy (see Dairyman716 channel).
I would like to present the version recorded by master violinist and composer Georges Boulanger. You will notice that Boulanger's arrangement is somewhat different from von Geczy's.

The video is dedicated to a "child of the puszta", Hungarian Marika Rökk. The first sequence is from an early movie : "Heisses Blut" (1935/36, her second movie for UFA and set in Hungary ), combined with pictures of Marika Rökk from my personal collection. The last sequence is from "Tanz mit dem Kaiser" (1941, equally set in Hungary at the time of the Austro-Hungarian empire) featuring Marika Rökk as she is best remembered today. Both sequences seem a good fit to the music ...

About the record :

Odeon O-25589a - mx.Be11154

Sound equipment used : Ortofon Om78 cartridge and stylus
Turntable : Stanton T.90
TerraTec 78RPM Phono Pre-amp

Record transferred without intervention/cleaning effects.
A-side to "Liebe", also by Georges Boulanger.