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The Most Successful Vocal Big-Beat Band In Poland In Late-60s. Jerzy Krzemiński Guitar Vocals Slawomir Kowalewski Bass Vocals Krzysztof Krawczyk Guitar Vocals And Marian Lichtman Drums Vocals First Met In 1964. In The Beginning Were Mostly A Live Backing Band For Other Artists. Toured Poland With German Band The Lords. Gained Wider Attention Via Appearance At The National Song Festival In 1966 With Singer Slawa Mikolajczyk. Released First EP Same Year. Krawczyk And Lichtman Left In Early 1967. In Came Marta Martelinska Vocals Bogdan Borkowski Guitar And Aleksander Kawecki Drums . Unfortunately Band's Story Nearly Ended In Autumn Of 1967 With Departure Of Krzeminski Borkowski And Kawecki. However Kowalewski Regrouped With Krawczyk And Lichtman And With Addition Of Ryszard Poznakowski Band's Future Principal Composer Saved Trubadurzy From Disbanding. Reformed Band Began Touring Heavily Building A Completely New Repertoire That Eventually Led Them To The String Of Chart-Topping Singles In Late-1967 And Early-1968. Przyjedz Mamo Na Przysiege Song Was Big Success At The National Song Festival In Opole. Trubadurzy Weren't Good Enough Musicians To Create A Sophisticated Record. Instead They Stoke On Their Outstanding Vocal Harmonies And Eventually Made It Big With Pure Musicianship Without Any Publicity Or Image Hype. Their Songs Mostly Penned By Poznakowski Were Based On Polish And Russian Folklore. Use Of Russian Musical Traditions Made Them ‘the Most Russian Of All Polish Bands'. Recorded Their Debut Album Within One Day Of February The 3rd 1968 As A Four-Piece Poznakowski Keyboards Vocals Krawczyk Guitar Vocals Kowalewski Bass Vocals And Lichtman Drums Vocals . This Album As Well As The Next Certainly Belong To Their Finest Musical Achievements. Having Completed A Two-Month Tour Of USSR And Mongolia ! In Late 1969 Trubadurzy Parted Company With Poznakowski And Brought In Female Singer Halina Zytkowiak Instead. This Line-Up Released Two LPs Both Being Admirable In Some Ways But Undoubtedly Weaker Than First Two. Toured Czechoslovakia Eastern Germany Bulgaria USSR And Belgium In 1970-72. Appeared At The National Song Festival In June 1972 Again With Poznakowski To Present Bedziesz Ty 'You Will' – Their Last Big Hit. Summer Of 1972 Brought Further Personnel Change With Departure Of Zytkowiak And Krawczyk. In Came Maria Gluchowska Vocals Ex. ABC And Janusz Hryniewicz Guitar . The Latter Left For An Early Version Of SBB Band Shortly After. New Drummer Jan Izbinski Ex. Breakout Came In 1974. Trubadurzy Were Presented A Gold LP For Their Second Album In Late 1974. Zytkowiak Krawczyk And Pozniakowski Guested At The Special Concert Celebrating The Event But Generally Band's Days Ended. Kowalewski Zytkowiak And Krawczyk Resurrected The Band In 1976 With Addition Of Zbigniew Dziubinski Guitar Bogdan Gorbaczynski Bass Jan Slotkowicz Drums And T. Rostkowski Keyboards . Recorded A Surprisingly Fresh And Diverse Album Znowu Razem 'Together Again' Though A Sad Commercial Failure. Kowalewski Poznakowski Lichtman And Piotr Kuzniak Guitar Vocals Resurrected Trubadurzy Once Again In 1994 For Occasional Gigging Across The Homeland. read less