Mischa Spoliansky und sein Orchester-Ich steh' mit Ruth gut

Spoliansky (1898 in Białystok, Poland-1985 in London) was a Russian and British composer. Spoliansky's early musical education in piano, violin and cello was continued in Dresden under Prof. Mark Guensberg. At the age of ten Mischa made his public debut. Shortly thereafter his father died and Spoliansky moved to Königsberg (Prussia) where he had relatives. In 1914 however as a result of the war he had to flee to Berlin. Spoliansky worked in a coffeehouse as a pianist in order to continue his musical education at the Stern'sches Konservatorium. Spoliansky's first compositions were played by the UFA-Filmtheaterorchester in Friedrichstraße. In addition he worked as a composer and pianist in a Russian émigré cabaret. There Friedrich Hollaender and Werner Richard Heymann heard him and invited him to write and play for the literary cabaret "Schall und Rauch" in the basement of the Große Schauspielhaus, which Max Reinhardt had founded in 1919. Spoliansky set the texts of Kurt Tucholsky, Klabund, Joachim Ringelnatz, and accompanied stars such as Gussy Holl, Paul O’Montis, Rosa Valetti and Trude Hesterberg. In 1933 Spoliansky emigrated to London, where he began a second career as a film composer. The author of this song, Fred Raymond, né Raimund Friedrich Vesely (1900-1954) was an Austrian composer of operettas, film scores and hit songs which were very successful in the 1920s and 1930s. This great record was made in 1928.