Video: "The Earth is empty without you ": one of Yuri Gagarin's favorite songs
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The song "Tenderness", which was one of the favorite songs of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to conquer space, was written by Nikolai Dobronravov and Alexandra Pakhmutova. This song, which gained popularity not only in the USSR, but throughout the world, has a very difficult history.
After the first performance of this song in the Column Hall of the House of Unions, Maya Kristalinskaya left the stage in complete silence, to the sound of her own heels, and the songwriters had to listen to a stream of indignation from critics and friends. And all because the foreign surname Exupery sounded in the song.
“What are you writing about? Some unknown French pilot! Then they would have written about Chkalov or something! You have to be closer to the people!"
This song gained popularity when it sounded in the film “Three Poplars on Plyushchikha.” Later, Alla Bayanova, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Margarita Sukhankina, Georgy Garanyan Tamara Sinyavskaya, Lyudmila Zykina, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Lyudmila Senchina, Tatyana Bulastiyskiy Belistiyskiy Guitar. and composer Francis Goya wrote 9 instrumental interpretations of this melody: Cuban Lourdes Gil sang "Tenderness" in Spanish, and Frenchwoman Frida Boccara sang in Russian.
We decided to remember how Mayai Kristalinskaya sang "Tenderness".
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