Czerwone Gitary (The Red Guitars) is one of the most popular rock bands in … Read Full Bio ↴Czerwone Gitary (The Red Guitars) is one of the most popular rock bands in the history of Polish popular music. The band formed in 1965 and achieved its greatest success from 1965 to 1970. Often considered the Polish equivalent of the Beatles, many of their hits are now classics in Poland. The group toured extensively outside Poland (in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, USA, Germany and Soviet Union) but had mostly disappeared from the Polish scene by the 1980s. The band reformed in the 1990s.

Czerwone Gitary were founded by guitarist/vocalist Jerzy Kossela (July 15, 1942 – January 7, 2017) and bassist Henryk Zomerski on 3 January 1965 in Gdańsk. Initial members included Bernard Dornowski (guitar/vocals), Krzysztof Klenczon (lead guitar /vocals) and Jerzy Skrzypczyk (drums/vocals); four members (Dornowski, Klenczon, Kossela and Zomerski) had played previously in another notable Polish band, the Niebiesko-Czarni (The Blue-Blacks). Note: Radio disc jockey Neil Kempfer-Stocker was the first person to air the Blue-Blacks 45 rpms in America while at WRMC Radio Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1968. In Autumn 1965 Zomerski was replaced by Seweryn Krajewski (bass/vocals) ; around that time the band also launched their first tour in Poland under the slogan "We play and sing the loudest in Poland".

Their 1966 debut album "To właśnie my" ("It's us") sold 160,000 copies, and their May 1967 follow up, Czerwone Gitary 2, sold a then-record (for Poland) 240,000. In the same year Krajewski received a special award at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole (Krajowy Festiwal Piosenki Polskiej w Opolu). In 1967 Kossela left the band. The band's 1968 third album sold 220,000 copies, and the group received an award in Opole for their song "Takie ładne oczy" ("Such Pretty Eyes"). In 1969 the band received a MIDEM award in Cannes for the largest number of discs sold in Poland up to that date; this was the same year that the Beatles received this award. Thereafter the Czerwone Gitary would be known as the Polish Beatles (see also Beatlesque). The same year the group received a special award from Billboard magazine, and in Poland, another award from Opole festival for "Biały krzyż" ("White cross").

Klenczon left in 1970, the year of the band's acclaimed LP "Na fujarce" ("On the flute"). Krajewski then took lead as the group turned to mainstream folk-tinged pop in the 1970s.

After a hiatus the Czerwone Gitary returned in the early 1990s with Kossela, Dornowski and Skrzypczyk resurrecting the group. Krajeski refused to participate and even released a solo album credited to Czerwone Gitary by Seweryn Krajewski called "Koniec" ("The End"). Initially the new lineup played the old hits; its first new album since the 1970s was "...jeszcze gra muzyka" ("...still the music plays") in 1998. In a 2000 poll for the Polish magazine Polityka, Czerwone Gitary were selected as "One of the Best Polish Bands of the 20th Century". In 2005 a new song "Senny szept" ("Sleepy whisper") took fourth place in the Sopot International Song Festival.

Members:

Jerzy Kossela (guitar, vocals, founder, leader, left in 1967, returned in 1991, left again in 1993 and returned again in 1999, stopped touring in 2015 due to health problems and died in 2017)
Henryk Zomerski (bass, keyabords ('90 & '00 only), founder, left the band soon after it was founded, in late 1965; in the band since 1999 till his death in 2011)
Bernard Dornowski (guitar, vocals, bass, one of the original members, left in 1999)
Jerzy Skrzypczyk (drums, vocals, percussion, one of the original members, still in the band as of 2016)
Krzysztof Klenczon (lead guitar, vocals, harmonica,one of the original members; left in 1970)
Seweryn Krajewski (bass, vocals, guitar, piano, violin, keyboards, replaced Zomerski in December 1965; left in 1997)
Dominik Kuta (guitar, flute, vocals, briefly in 1970)
Ryszard Kaczmarek (bass, 1971–1975)
Jan Pospieszalski (bass, 1976–1980)
Wojciech Hoffman (guitar, 1997–2000)
Arkadiusz Malinowski (guitar, bass, 1999–2002)
Dariusz Olszewski (guitar, vocals, 2000–2004, rejoined in 2010, still in the band as of 2016)
Mieczysław Wądołowski (guitar, vocals, joined 1997, still in the band as of 2016)
Marek Kisieliński (guitar, keyboards, joined 2003, left in 2013)
Arkadiusz Wiśniewski (bass, guitar, vocals, joined in 2003, still in the band as of 2016)
Artur Chyb (guitar, joined in 2013, left in 2014)
Marcin Niewęgłowski (guitar, vocals, 2014-2016)
Marek Jabłoński (guitar, joined in 2016)
Artur Żurek (percussion, additional drums, joined in 2016)

Kwiaty we włosach
Czerwone Gitary Lyrics

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To drogi dwie i szczęścia dwa ...

Więc choć z daleka wołasz mnie -
Nie powiem: "Tak", nie powiem: "Nie"...
Bez wspomnień czasem łatwiej żyć;
Nie wraca nic.

Kwiaty we włosach potargał wiatr,
Wyrzuć z pamięci ostatni ślad,
Bo dzisiaj Ty, bo dzisiaj ja -
To drogi dwie i szczęścia dwa ...

Więc choć z daleka wołasz mnie -
Nie powiem: "Tak", nie powiem: "Nie" ...
Bez wspomnień czasem łatwiej żyć;
Nie wraca nic.

Kwiaty we włosach potargał wiatr,
Wyrzuć z pamięci ostatni ślad,
Bo dzisiaj Ty, bo dzisiaj ja -

To drogi dwie i szczęścia dwa ...
I szczęścia dwa ...

Overall Meaning

The song "Kwiaty we włosach" by Czerwone Gitary is a heart-touching melody about lost love and the difficulty of moving on. The lyrics start with the wind messing up the flowers in one's hair, which symbolizes how time and unforeseen circumstances can destroy beautiful moments and memories. The singer then questions why the person they used to love would want to go back to the past when those times are long gone and impossible to retrieve. The line "Zgubionych dni nie znajdziesz już" (You won't find the lost days anymore) emphasizes the fact that dwelling on the past is pointless and only leads to disappointment and pain.

As the song progresses, the singer acknowledges that both they and their former lover have changed over time, and their paths have diverged. Despite the distance between them, the person still longs for their former lover, but they also admit that living without memories might be easier. The song's conclusion is an appeal to forget their past and move on, acknowledging that the paths of the singer and their former lover will never cross again.

The song's mournful melody and the bittersweet lyrics touch the hearts of many people who have experienced broken relationships, and it continues to resonate with audiences today, more than five decades after its release.

Line by Line Meaning

Kwiaty we włosach potargał wiatr,
The wind messed up the flowers in your hair.

Po co więc wracasz do tamtych lat?
Why do you want to go back to those days?

Zgubionych dni nie znajdziesz już,
You can't find those lost days anymore,

Choć przejdziesz świat i wszerz i wzdłuż.
Even if you travel the world back and forth.

Dawno zmieniłaś swych marzeń kształt.
You've changed the shape of your dreams a long time ago.

I dzisiaj Ty, i dzisiaj ja -
Today, you and I are on two different paths,

To drogi dwie i szczęścia dwa ...
Two roads and two happineses ...

Więc choć z daleka wołasz mnie -
So even if you call me from afar,

Nie powiem: "Tak", nie powiem: "Nie"...
I won't say yes, I won't say no...

Bez wspomnień czasem łatwiej żyć;
Sometimes it's easier to live without memories;

Nie wraca nic.
Nothing comes back.

Wyrzuć z pamięci ostatni ślad,
Erase the last trace from your memory,

I szczęścia dwa ...
And two happinesses ...

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Kwiaty we włosach potargał wiatr,
Po co więc wracasz do tamtych lat?
Zgubionych dni nie znajdziesz już,
Choć przejdziesz świat i wszerz i wzdłuż.
Kwiaty we włosach potargał wiatr,
Dawno zmieniłaś swych marzeń kształt.
I dzisiaj Ty, i dzisiaj ja -
To drogi dwie i szczęścia dwa ...
Więc choć z daleka wołasz mnie -
Nie powiem: "Tak", nie powiem: "Nie"...
Bez wspomnień czasem łatwiej żyć;
Nie wraca nic.
Kwiaty we włosach potargał wiatr,
Wyrzuć z pamięci ostatni ślad,
Bo dzisiaj Ty, bo dzisiaj ja -
To drogi dwie i szczęścia dwa ...
Więc choć z daleka wołasz mnie -
Nie powiem: "Tak", nie powiem: "Nie" ...
Bez wspomnień czasem łatwiej żyć;
Nie wraca nic.
Kwiaty we włosach potargał wiatr,
Wyrzuć z pamięci ostatni ślad,
Bo dzisiaj Ty, bo dzisiaj ja -
To drogi dwie i szczęścia dwa ...
I szczęścia dwa ...