“We worked with Anka for a short time as a result, because we managed to record only three songs with her. The title of the first song was not very lucky in comparison with what happened,” he told the radio program dedicated to the artist. We are talking about the song “Nothing can last forever”, which Romuald Lipko composed at the request of Anna Jantar herself, who at that time wanted to expand her repertoire. The lyrics to the melody were written by Andrzej Mogielnicki, and the whole thing was recorded in early 1979 – the song was one of the biggest hits of the year.
Anna Jantar recorded the last song with Budka Suflera
In December 1979, the singer recorded two more songs in Poland before departing for her last US tour. One of them was the song “Rest” with lyrics by Bogdan Olewicz and music by Zbigniew Hołdys, and the other was the song “Come back to my wife” composed by Romuald Lipka. After Anna Jantar’s death, Budka Suflera recorded the completed background music to the vocals.
– I am in a special situation, I have a special sentiment and memory for it, because it was the first song that I wrote for someone outside Budka, simply for a completely different performer. And it became a big hit in Poland. Anka sang it so well that it probably helped the composition a lot – said Romuald Lipko about working on the song “Nothing can last forever” in the Jedynka radio program.
– Working with her was great. At the moment she entered the studio, she was so prepared and had everything arranged in such a way that the role of the composer or music director of the recording was basically limited to purely technical control of the vocal recording itself, and not to any arrangements regarding interpretation, singing. She just knew how to do it, he recalled her professionalism. He also noted how unique this cooperation turned out to be for them:
We recorded three songs with her and we found ourselves in this special situation again. When the accident happened, we were in the process of remixing what turned out to be the last recorded track of her life. Bo recorded the vocals for this song three days before flying to the United States, before Christmas last year.
We to this vocal, which we recorded a little so quickly and hastily just to make it on time. We recorded part of the backing track while she was away from the country, and it turned out to be her last song.
“And this is also some proof of how she worked, because we had no problem with adding almost the entire backing track to the already recorded vocals, which from the very beginning was almost on empty tracks very well. It’s a strange feeling to rip a girl’s song that she is no longer alive, but that’s how it was. We’re glad that we still had such traces on the tape and we could do something more, add one last song to the whole series of songs recorded by her during her lifetime “- he emphasized.
In a later conversation with Polish Radio, Lipko also said that he even got a postcard from Anna Jantar, in which she asked him to start preparing new compositions for her, because he wanted to get to work quickly after a three-month stay in the USA. She even gave him a return date – it was a bit later. According to the composer’s story, Jantar was to return to Poland on March 17 or 18. However, she hastened her return because earlier in the month her daughter turned four and wanted to see her sooner.
– Anka was the type of performer who had an incredible ability to combine all the elements in a recording in such a way that they were extremely convincing. I think that was the reason why she had such a huge number of hits. It’s a very rare kind of ability, because it was combined with an incredible ease of singing, giving a certain personal tone to all the material she had to say in front of the microphone. I guess it comes from some character abilities. She was a wildly lively person who, as I remember, was difficult to keep in one place in front of the microphone in the studio. Music gave her a kind of experience, some great fun. It stimulated her to behave almost like a stage performer in the recording studio – Bogdan Olewicz told Andrzej Jaroszewski’s program.
Source: Gazeta
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