A popular performer
As his career grew, Faliszewski found himself performing the now much-loved hits of the era, from a 1930 Syrena-Electro rendition of Szkoda Twoich Łez, Dziewczyno (editor’s translation: It’s No Use Crying, Girl), and Cała Warszawa (All of Warsaw) in Morskie Oko, to the 1934 Polish apache anthem, Bal u Starego Joska (A Ball at Old Josek’s), all imbued with that characteristic comical and whimsical style so typical of Faliszewski’s career.
One of his hits from later years, in 1936, was Znakiem Tego (The Sign of This) a duet with his colleague from Chór Warsa, Adam Aston; a song in which Aston’s mellow refrain meets the farcical trills of a heavily intonated verse delivered by Faliszewski.
But, like Aston, Faliszewski also supplied his fair share of advertising songs to Poland’s ever-lucrative, ever-modernising interwar economy, including Piosenka o Radionie (Song about Radion), a piece to advertise the washing powder produced by the Polish company Schicht-Lever.
The journalist Olgierd Budrewicz also recalls one unfortunate episode with another of Faliszewski’s advertising enterprises, the song Bo On Nosi Krawat od Chojnackiego: