I questioned the seller. I was told that these were songs from the interwar period. Obviously, the shopkeeper did not know his product, so it was obvious that the title of ballads concerned the early years of Romanian communism, around the year 1950: Guvernul Comunist , Gheorghiu-Dej şi Hrusciov , Radio Bucureşti minte ... Person being able to tell me more, I bought the double album and went to the discovery of a forgotten music.
But who is John Moscopol? The site moscopol.blogspot.com , devoted to him, offers interesting information, from which I draw the following biographical elements.
Born in Braila in 1903 to a family of Greek origin, J. Moscopol held various occupations before choosing a career as an artist in 1929. He joined an operetta troupe Bucharest then travels the country on tour with actor Ion Manolescu. He records for the His Master's Voice about 300 songs, went to Berlin where he performed with local orchestras and took classical singing lessons.
After the war, he chose exile, with the help of actress Elvira Popesco. He settled briefly in Greece, Germany and France to finally choose the United States of America.
New York, John Moscopol does not regain its pre-war celebrity. It invests in the life of the Romanian Diaspora and directs the church community Sfântu Dumitru. He returns to the song that during the 1970s, encouraged by the editor of the daily Universul Buhoiu Aristide. He died in 1980.
The Communist regime tried to erase the existence of Moscopol Romanian collective memory. His experience as a singer of combat, as will be appreciated with the extracts below, could not naturally excite the fury of totalitarian censorship.
| Ţara Comunista | Communist Country |
| intr-o Tara Comunista When you fire thruster
And you and a sinister character You can get faster Minister After Proceeds from raw And thou partaker of the crimes you put in prison
And then sentenced treason | En pays Communist Quand Tu es a que Et fiefféarriviste you as a sinister Caractère Tu peux devenir ministre cattle. toucher des primes affixed thereto Qui rendent you complicit du crime Tu es
Jete en prison pour trahison | affixed thereto condemn
| Roata Lumiya to-nvarteşte, tzac, tzac, tzac. Si Orice crime is plateşte, tzanc, tzanc, tzanc. Comunismu Ntai-te-ajută, tock, tock, tock if ApoI, you execute, pac, pac, pac | The wheel of the world turns, tzac, tzac, tzac And every crime will pay, tzanc, tzanc, tzanc. First, communism helps you, hush, hush, hush t'exécute And then, bang, bang, bang. |
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| Soviet-Cand Iti Comitetul This self-portrait ask them to sign cards no longer c-self-critical and have to do. Once you find them boil Nextautoduba. And then the whole history of the autopsy Ending | comité them soviétique Quand tonDemande autoportrait Cela signifie que you by us Palais Et plus que faire tone you Dois autocritique. trouvé après t'avoir a DefaArrive Salad à panier them. Et enfin toute
Cette histoire en autopsy is finished. |
| wheel world se-nvarteşte, tzac, tzac, tzac. Si Orice crime is plateşte, tzanc, tzanc, tzanc. Comunismu Ntai-te-ajută, tock, tock, tock if ApoI, you execute, pac, pac, pac. (shot) | The wheel of the world turns, tzac, tzac, tzac And every crime will pay, tzanc, tzanc, tzanc. First, communism helps you, hush, hush, hush t'exécute And then, bang, bang, bang. |
Moscopol John uses popular tunes known to be very stick his diatribes. Another example is in Guvernul Comunist in which the artist settles accounts with the writer Mihail Sadoveanu (1880 - 1961), a follower of the collaboration, and with some Balaceanu I have not accurately identified.
The song is available here:
www.trilulilu.ro/lauvoi/3fb5754bcb7501
| Guvernul Comunist | Communist Government |
| This Frumoasa Este Viata e Cand esti chior ca şi prost Tata if ajungi Din potcovar În guvern subsecretar | Que Cette Vie est belle Quand , borgne et comme a plouc sticks, You quittes du Maréchal-Ferrant L'Atelier Pour devenir sous-secretaire du gouvernement |
| What's nice when they come Russians and say the two solutions How to speak how to shut apostoluAnd do | East Qu'il drink quand viennent les Russes, posent youEt qu'ils leurs deux options Comment comment is Taira et Parler Et comment sacerdoce exercer ton. |
| How beautiful is life when you say
thread That keeps you knock comes a fault on the east light
| Que Cette Vie est belle Quand on Facebook dire Force Que (pourquoi them Taira) Du Levant vient worlds |
| How nice is to have neck and the Soviets salary Being brother Enemy And I'll say Sadoveanu Qu'il | d'avoir une drink east nuque And a salary of Soviets Be brother with the enemy and to call Sadoveanu |
| This Frumoasa Este Viata e Cand nu te CUFA Greata Sa-i pe tot PERii intruder if its i-pe tamâiezi Rusi | That this life is beautiful When nausea thee foreign What you caress intruders and praising the Russians |
| Balaceanu you numeşti Fiindca Ţara în RPR-ista Cu nesatz you bălăceşti În mocirla Comunista | Balaceanu your name In the People's Socialist Republic And with delight you wade in the mire Communist |
We will probably find it difficult to appear that this writer was in his youth, the Romanian equivalent of the crooners of the interwar period, as Maurice Chevalier and Tino Rossi. His desire to transcend his art by his fight for freedom is to his credit. Sources
- Reference site moscopol.blogspot.com
- An article in the daily Jurnalul (http://colectie.jurnalul.ro/stire-jean-moscopol/urmasul-lui-tanase-318783.html )
- Some excerpts in http://www.trilulilu.ro/JuliaAgripina/ff543ac0484a5f
Unless otherwise noted, translations are made by the author of the article.
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