Ефим Александров. - Школа танцев - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Apparently, the author of the song “School of Ball Dancing” was known to Odessa, at least Vladimir Henkin: “And what kind of laughter he stood in the hall, when Henkin, playing along with his piano and dancing, performed his batteries about an hairdresser who was not from good life, and exclusively additional earnings for the sake of, in the evenings turned his institution into a dance class, where it is peculiar, but quite confidently taught the eager to join the “before fashion” of the Odessa inhabitants: “Cavaliers invite the ladies,/ where the brooch is before./ Two steps to the left , two steps to the right,/ step back. Vice versa". The success of the number was so stunning that the audience “took out” the purchases from the hall and soon “all of Odessa” sang them. Henkin, on the other hand, performed the “dance class” usually “under the curtain” of the program, without time to bisen and eventually even replenished his repertoire with a continuation or, as they called it, a new version of the verses.

And then the inexorable natural selection worked, and the bits of the “dancing class”, like the Utesovsky “on the Deribasov corner of Richelevskaya”, moved away from the performer, time and the author unknown to us, “left” into unpluggable curses and social cataclysms, experienced decades and under The name “Ball Dance School” still sounds in lounging companies and are included in the collections of Odessa songs. ” (A. Rosenboym)

Differences in this song mainly concern the name of the Solomon of Klyar, Flara, Beara? .. I will venture to assume that the Jewish surname Shklyar is the most common, but the songs were remembered by ear, and who will now sort it out ...