Something of a mystery. Googlie is silent on the questions of where the Lovers of Polish Folklore club was based, who was resposible for it, and when and for how long it operated. All I can do is note that fact that it was responsible for a single by the Polboys, 'Melodie Goralskie' b/w 'Sztajerki Lwowskie', which had a catalogue number of POL-1 and was made by Decca, presumably as a custom pressing. There's no date on the label, but a post on the Very Good Plus site suggested 1973, which seems as likely as any other year; according to the London Gazette the club was dissolved as a limited company in December 1980, so it's likely that the record came out some years before that, when the company was still viable. The songs on the record are less Folky and more Pop-ish than that I had expected, with electric organ, bass and drums providing the accompaniment. There's a single tantalising reference to a piece called 'Sztajerki Lviv' on the label in amongst a group of other records in a listing on an old Polish auction site, so perhaps there are other POLs out there.
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