Top 10 Best Famous Old and New Russian Songs List
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- 19 Jul 2022
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Dorogoi Dlinnoyu is one of two or three popular Russian songs which were among other main English-American pop songs. In 1968 the record Dorogoi Dlinnoyu with the English name Those were the days happened to be one of the best-selling ones. But this song was written by Fomin B. who was working in the romance genre. He wrote it specially for the singer and poet Belgoroskaya E. who was performing lyrical songs.
The lyrics of the song Ochi Chyornye were written by Grebyonkin E. This classical Ukrainian prose author published more than 40 poems in Russian. One of them became a Russian folk song and another one became the gypsy romance Ochi Chyornye. The composer of the song is a musician descending from France called Florian German. The melody which was used as a musical footing was initially called Russian daydream (Russkie gryozy) and Waltz-greeting (Val’s-privet). The romance was mentioned in fiction, particularly in Krestovskiy and Chekhov’s works. Stars-entertainers were singing it and jazz bands were adapting it in the XXth century.
Kalinka is mistakenly considered to be a folk song. The composer, musician, band-master, music critic, folklorist Larionov I. is the author of the world-known song Kalinka. He wrote it in XIX century. It became popular due to the Alexandrov Ensemble (the Red Army Choir). This song was performed for the first time after World War II. Russian and other restaurants in the world take a fancy to the name of the song. It’s used as a synonim of everything that’s Russian. The music to Kalinka is quite often used as a soundtrack during breaks between hockey matches.
The song Podmoskovnie vechera (Moscow Nights) is in the Guinness Book of Records as the most performed Russian song. The composer Solovyov-Sedoy made up this melody but thought of it as an unsuccessful one. He came from Leningrad so he named it Leningrad Nights. It was written as a soundtrack for a film about sport. But the song became popular after it was played on the radio. No concert, no radio program were arranged without this song for years. People all around the world love and sing this song.
The song Katusha became really popular during the Great Patriotic War. It was a specific social phenomena. Millions of people perceived the heroine of the song as a real girl who loves the soldier and is waiting for the answer. People were writing letters to her. The name of the song was used as a name of a new weapon which was a rocket mortar. The song has become popular in Japan in recent years. Read More…
