Video: "Kalinka-Malinka" in English, "Katyusha" in Chinese and other Russian songs that foreigners like to sing
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Nobody canceled the interpenetration of cultures. And even during the "Iron Curtain" in the USSR they listened to Western music, and Russian songs were performed with pleasure far beyond the borders of the country of victorious socialism. This review contains the most famous and most popular Russian songs abroad.
There are Russian songs that have been sung with pleasure in the West for more than a year, and for some they have even invented new words. The most popular song in Great Britain was "Dear Distant". For 45 years, she stayed at the first lines of the British charts. True, in the British version the romance was called "Those Were the Days". American Jean Ruskin wrote his own lyrics to the music of Boris Fomin, and in the West he is still considered the author of the song.
Another most popular Russian romance in the West is Black Eyes. It was sung by the inimitable Dina Durbin, who had several Russian songs in her repertoire, which were always popular. The authors of the romance are considered the Russian-German composer Florian Herman and the Ukrainian poet Yevgeny Grebyonka. But the romance also had one more author - Fyodor Chaliapin. He came up with a few more verses and his performance glorified this romance.
Another favorite of Western stars is the Russian song "Moscow Nights". She was loved to sing by foreign performers, especially when they came on tour to Russia. Few people knew, but in fact Matusovsky and Solovyov-Sedoy wrote a song about the beauty of Leningrad evenings. But by order of the Ministry of Culture in 1956, the song was corrected and the name was changed.
The song "Kalinka" is also widely known in the West. True, it is not entirely clear why it is considered Russian folk. It was written in 1860 by the composer Ivan Larionov, and performed in all Russian restaurants in Europe and America. Foreigners also know the song "Katyusha". Moreover, many are sure that she was born at the front. Although in fact for the first time this song by Blanter and Isakovsky sounded in 1938. And at that time that very Katyusha-rocket artillery combat vehicle did not yet exist.
The song "A Million Scarlet Roses" is very popular in Japan. Many residents of the Land of the Rising Sun are sure that this is a Japanese song. This piece of music became a hit thanks to Kato Tokiko. She translated the lyrics into Japanese and never hid that the song was Russian.
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