Dome Jozef and his Gypsy Band

For 4 years now I've had some music in my library that I loved but knew nothing about. Someone gave me a cd and all I knew was that the band was supposed to be called "Dome Jozef and his Gypsy Band" and the album was Die Reblaus.

For years I've searched and the only result I ever found was my own post on able2know listing my playlist. I tried all kinds of music databases, search engines and there was simply nothing out there on the internet. Not even on databases that collect digital fingerprints of songs. Not a single scrob anywhere either.

This month my luck changed, and someone put the CD up for sale on ebay, letting me confirm the artist and album and finally add titles to the tracks I've had in my digital library all these years.

The playlist from the ebay seller listed the tracks as:

Wie schon sind deine Augen
Nur ein Madel gibt es auf der Welt
Juliska aus Budapest
Schwarze Augen
Moskauer Nachte
Katuschka
Die Nachtigall
Tamo Daleko
Csardas von Monti
Der dritte Mann
Polka Fantasia
Wiener Blut
D'runt in der Lobau
Fioakerlied
Wien bleibt Wien
Wien, Wien nur du allein
Heit Kommen die Engel
Komm Zigan
Ungarischer Tanz No5

I wasn't sure if they were in order, but they seem to be. Track 19 is, in fact, Ungarischer Tanz No5 (aka Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5) and hopefully the rest are in order and properly spelled.

Anywho, I'm just listing that info because the ebay listing is sure to expire soon, and there will once again be no more information about this on the internet. So here's the album cover to go with your track list if anyone else out there listens to these guys:



And here's a great violinist (Yehudi Menuhin) performing Hungarian Dance No. 5. I'm saving it here because it's been one of my favorite pieces since I was a kid (I believe I first heard it on the soundtrack to the documentary Animals are Beautiful People) and putting the pieces together for this Roma music album I've had all these years is reconnecting me with some of these old favorites.



Thanks know-where-man at ebay for posting the playlist!