https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/%D0%BE-%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE-3/о русской музыки и кино 3Dave2016-08-23T12:22:14Zhttps://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/%D0%BE-%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE-3/#card-10802just ran across the party band Volga-...2016-08-23T12:22:14Z2016-08-23T12:22:14Z
just ran across the party band Volga-Volga; most of their repertoire is a pastiche of russian pop, but some of it shades into western standards as well, eg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-8O5CM5qc#t=86
the lyrics may be Maxime's « Знаешь ли ты », the style balkanized, but the music is clearly a western "[classic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHWiN_vFtdY)", or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITN3zB5fPk0
(a well celebrated "Hava Nagila"), or their punked out extended dance version of "Titanic":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XATvPOJtXM
OK, that last was pretty weak. They do much better when covering eastern european party tunes such as "[American Boy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcUI-4C4zZg)" ... but that's unlikely to mean much unless one is familiar with both the early 90's [original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7hAo28NCXc) (by a group we've seen here [before](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10405), Комбинатция) and its various extant [pastiches](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuSBy_cMDJc)...
https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/%D0%BE-%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE-3/#card-10757« Звери - До скорой встречи » tells a...2016-08-07T10:52:26Z2016-08-07T10:52:26Z
« Звери - До скорой встречи » tells a charming story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF6W1XD25Dc
(don't know about you all; this tube reminded me of ["uptown girl"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuMWrfXG4E) ... but in comparison, I hope Poe's Law applies to the latter!)
https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/%D0%BE-%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE-3/#card-10723## we can't rewind we've gone too far...2016-07-22T08:47:26Z2016-07-22T08:47:26Z
## we can't rewind we've gone too far
Interesting contrast between the traditional (set ca. 1979*):
О чем ты думаешь
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pilzEKhNCgs
and the spacy/disco-y setting of what WP says has a decent claim to being the first soviet music video, from the film "Soul", in 1981:
За тех, кто в море
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJAKUTMwUMk#t=4708
and, hey, as long as we're watching something chock full of mylar, here's something (a bit less retro-cheesy) from Roscosmos about how to recover cosmonauts without a splashdown:
Как готовится посадка спускаемого аппарата
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRUtod1ffQE
* the scene (here at 0:36) where the male lead gives the female lead his scarf, is, in the series, followed by her dance troupe colleague's fingering the scarf, finishing with an identification: « Pierre Cardin ! »
https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/%D0%BE-%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE-3/#card-10717...revisiting (in a concert context) ...2016-07-19T13:01:02Z2016-07-19T13:01:02Z
...revisiting (in a concert context) various themes we've seen before: whether [electrifying folk](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10318/) (or cf [also](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiddPr_uAYw))
Старики
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG882TGu92w
or [cross dressing](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10342/), but in the [opposite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Am5AEPHd6k) [direction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Ad-c7FM0c) as [previously](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb5SCg1f0cI):
Самба белого мотылька
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvx4kEBP70w
or simply (if it's difficult to top [songs](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10460/) involving [black horses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlnYs2VAyI)), performing as a duet:
Ой, да не вечер
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1TzJm1BD2I
* we've also heard another [equine song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk8Bpxrs0rY) which can be compared with the interpretation by this [duet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vwZE_ClKo4)
https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/%D0%BE-%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B8-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE-3/#card-10706True, she's no longer an ingénue, but...2016-07-15T11:59:09Z2016-07-15T11:59:09Z
True, she's no longer an ingénue, but
Натали - Шахерезада
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECXz9qgTyyM#t=26
has some fairly disingenuous lyrics: the chorus is
> I'm not [Sheherazade: my stories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights) aren't told in words; there is no greater treasure than love.
and while we might believe France Gall when she sings on Eurovision that she's a [wax doll who has no clue](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/russian/10167/) what her lyrics mean, it's a bit more difficult to buy the bimbo impression when —as with a rook who pretends to attack a pawn ... but, should it attempt to move, also [menaces the king](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10484/) lined up behind it— the same line that claims illiteracy is making a literary reference.
It's *especially* difficult upon seeing that both music and lyrics are credited to a certain « Н. Рудина ».
* bonus track, if more dutch than russian: "Stars on 45" was apparently so big back in the day that our [comrades in leg warmers](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10324/) were also listening to it, although Melodia titled their release « [Звезды Дискотек](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JhC13TxhBo) »