The Song Remains With You

Turnabout

All I have in my life

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Alexander Scriabin. Finale

In the 65th year, when Muslim Magomayev first sang the song "Beauty Queen", he was 23 years old, but he was already at the pinnacle of fame. When the 20-year-old Magomayev was first heard by Ekaterina Furtseva, the former Minister of Culture, she said: “Finally, we have a real baritone!” After this, of course, there came an offer to join the troupe of Bolshoi Theater, but Magomayev refused it! As he later explained, “I didn’t want to confine myself to the framework of opera only.” The young performer built his concerts in a unique way: the first part - opera classics, the second - pop songs. So he managed to erase the boundaries between the so-called "serious music" and "light" and convey even to the most demanding audience completely forbidden twist melodies, such as, for example, "Beauty Queen".

The Song Remaines With You. Beauty Queen

The aouthor of this song is a famous Soviet writer Konstantin Simonov who served as a war reporter in the Soviet Army during World War The 2nd...

The Song Remaines With You. War Reporters' Song

In 1943, on a train from Stalingrad to Yelets, two very talented people met: composer Mark Fradkin and poet Evgeny Dolmatovsky. During wartime, trains moved very slow, the journey took 7 days and during this time the song “Accidental Waltz” was born and it still remaines a favorite among our people for many years.

The Song Remaines With You. Accidental Waltz

In September 1939, Germany attacked Poland. One of the best Polish jazz composers, Jerzy Pieterburgski, was drafted into the army. In the same month, he ended up on the territory that became part of the USSR. The musician received Soviet citizenship and by the end of the 1939 he headed the State Jazz Orchestra of the Byelorussian SSR. There were 25 musicians in the orchestra, almost all of them were former Polish citizens. For his team, Jerzy Peterburgsky wrote a waltz, which later became the song "Blue Scarf". In 1940, Jerzy's orchestra toured the Hermitage Garden in Moscow. The poet and playwright Yakov Galitsky came to their concert. The waltz inspired him so much that he, without waiting for the end of the concert, wrote down verses to this music in a notebook. After the concert, he showed it to the composer. And after a couple of days, the song "Blue Scarf" entered the concert program. But it was another, still peaceful version, light love song.

The Song Remaines With You. Blue Scarf

On July 8, 1969, Mark Bernes entered the legendary Moscow Recording House. He was hardly moving by that time, so his son helped him. He came up to microphone and recorded the song "Cranes" in one take. It was his last recording, a month later Mark Naumovich died. And the song was gaining popularity, which crossed the borders of our country and reached even The USA, where in West Hollywood there is a monument dedicated to the soldiers who fell in World War II, and on this monument there are 4 lines from the song "Cranes".

The Song Remaines With You. Cranes

60s of the XX century: the whole world was gripped by overwellming Beatlemania. And it did not bypass the Soviet Union, where it was quite possible to purchase records with the songs of The Liverpool Four on the black market. Andrei Makarevich was then a schoolboy. His father brought home a record of The Beatles, apparently unaware that he was thereby making a revolution in the world of Soviet music. Soon, Andrei Makarevich organized a group of Beatlemanic teenagers in his Moscow school. They dressed like Beatles and sang, as Makarevich himself says, "absolutely early Beatles style songs in English." But a year later, the group began call themselves "Time Machine". The guys grew up, gave semi-legal concerts, and by the end of the 70s there was no one left in the country who would not know about the "Time Machine" group. Then, in the 79th, the song "Turnabout" was born.

The Song Remaines With You. Turnabout

For more than 60 years, with the word "lilies of the valley", we remember, of course, both white flowers and the smell of spring, but first of all, our favorite song that begins to sound in our heads. Oscar Feltsman wrote the music for the song "Lilies of the Valley" back in 1958. Feltsman composed it in his characteristic short and easy manner and went for vacation to the seaside. And there, in the south, a week later he received a telegram from a friend: “Oscar, rush home, all Moscow is singing your "Lilies of the Valley.” So this song brought a smashing success to the little-known then composer Oscar Feltsman.

The Song Remaines With You. lilies of the valley

In the 60s, the country first heard 3 strange letters - “VIE” and very soon began to just go crazy over them. "Vocal-instrumental ensemble" - behind these words were hidden the most popular movements of foreign music, which in the Soviet Union could not be called by their proper names. The path of the group "Gems", which owns the first performance of the song "All I have in my life", began in Japan. There, at the Expo-70 exhibition, Yuri Malikov got acquainted with modern European music. A young double bass player, a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, set about creating a new musical group, completely different from the Soviet type. After numerous auditions, the first composition of nameless then VIE gathered, the first song that was performed - “I'll Take You to Tundra” - during radio program “Good morning!” and there was announced a competition for the best name of the young band. Of the thousands of options sent, they chose “Gems”.

The Song Remaines With You. All I have in my life

Half a century ago, composer Alexandra Pakhmutova and poet Nikolai Dobronravov wrote the song "Hope". This song became not just popular, it realy gave many people what is said in its title - hope. For half a century, this song has acquired amazing stories, true, but sometimes similar to myths. One of them is about Chilean boys: Alvaro Toro Vega and Horacio Lira. At the international pioneer camp "Artek" they learned the song "Hope", and in their homeland one of them ended up in prison for participating in a demonstration against Pinochet. The boy managed to smuggle a film with a recording to the USSR, where he sings “Hope” in the dungeons. The portrait of a Chilean boy was published in the Pionerskaya Pravda newspaper. Journalists then collected 11 million letters and sent them to Pinochet in protest. Surely diplomatic channels also worked, but, one way or another, the boy got out of prison and remained forever grateful to the song “Hope”.

The Song Remaines With You. Hope

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the premiere of the film "The Girls". A little romantic and naive images are still with us, and, of course, favorite songs – "Good Girls" and "Old Maple". Moreover, the "Old Maple" has entered into our lives so much that many consider this song to be a folk song. This only proves the great talent of the composer Alexandra Pakhmutova and the poet Mikhail Matusovsky.

Olesya Lesnikova sings the song for us from people's favorite movie "The Girls". After all, this film is so tender and romantic what makes it loved through years...

The Song Remaines With You. Old Maple

The 20s of the last century: NEP (New Economic Policy), the horrors of the Civil War are gradually passing away, the economy is being restored, people desperately crave for joy and entertainment. Valentin Parnakh, who has returned from Paris, performs music that shocked him in the French capital, it is called jazz. Soon, foreign guest performers arrive in the capital's concert halls one after another. Among them are saxophonist Sidney Bechet and his jazz orchestra. The halls were packed, the audience applauded furiously. The young Soviet country was flooded with fans and followers of this music. One of them was a young musician Alexander Tsfasman, the creator of the song "Unsuccessful Date" that we loved so much.

The Song Remaines With You. Bad date

The film "Sannikov Land" was released In 1974 and was watched by more than 41 million viewers. The song "There is only a Moment" perfectly fit into a fantastic film about the search for a warm land somewhere beyond the Arctic Circle, so now it's even hard to believe that composer Alexander Zatsepin and poet Leonid Derbenev wrote this song for a failed operetta about collective farmers.

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