Music in the USSR. 1970's Popular Soviet Singers & Bands. Ushanka Digest

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Soviet music. Most popular Soviet performers and singers. Popular Soviet music bands.
0:00 Intro
0:19: Memories of popular Ukrainian band Trio Marenich in the late 1970s in the Soviet Union.
6:56 Censorship of music in the USSR, 1960s bands called Vocal Instrumental Ensemble, restriction on rock band identity.
14:46 Discussion of popular Soviet singer Alla Pugacheva, including her hit song 'Million of Red Roses' and its origins.
20:31 Family's limited exposure to Soviet music through a basic cassette player and personal recordings.
26:24 Soviet singer Lev Leschenko gained recognition through 16 medals and the prestigious Hero of Socialist Labor award.
32:33 Renowned Soviet singer Valentina Tolkunova's impactful career, memorable songs, and contribution to children's TV.
39:15 Renowned Soviet singer Safia Rotaru gained popularity for singing in multiple languages and collaborating with the government.
45:08 Soviet band faced trouble for promoting Jazz and the American lifestyle, saved by leader's connections. The Lead singer's accent caused issues.
51:34 Renowned Soviet singer Iosif Kabzon faced visa issues due to alleged criminal connections but remains a favorite performer in Russia.
Recap by Tammy AI
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@kevinramsey417 22 күн бұрын

The iconic Eduard Kihl. May that gigachad legend rest in peace.

@64maxpower 22 күн бұрын

Best source of Russia life style. If this were 1956, youd be in a Gulag. Thanks for your work

@UshankaShow 22 күн бұрын

GULAG, all capitals. It's an abbreviation just like KGB or CIA

@64maxpower 22 күн бұрын

@@UshankaShow Thanks. Out of respect for millions, I want to get it right

@kevinlitton1399 20 күн бұрын

Also, it's GULAG, not a GULAG. It's plural.

@UshankaShow 20 күн бұрын

@@kevinlitton1399 Probably the GULAG? It's Glavnoe Upravlenie, The Main Management of the Camps

@craiglarge5925 19 күн бұрын

@@UshankaShow Or NKVD

@jakstat9880 22 күн бұрын

Absolutely loving hearing your perspectives and stories. Russian and soviet rock like DDT, Aquarium, Mashina Vremeni, and Kino has been so much fun to discover as a language learner. Thank you Sergei!!!

@AbandonedMaine 22 күн бұрын

Nothing wrong with songs celebrating railroad workers.

@helgeschneider9069 21 күн бұрын

not the railroad workers....the communist party.

@JTA1961 21 күн бұрын

As long as they're layin track...&...not smokin crack

@kevinlitton1399 20 күн бұрын

John Henry anyone?

@AlinsieventualCalin 21 күн бұрын

A few corrections about Sofia Rotaru: 1. Sofia Rotaru is of Romanian ethnicity and originates from the Bucovina region. She is a native Romanian speaker, learning Russian only at school, and the correct name of the inhabitants of this region is Bucovinians, not Moldovans. 2. According to the constitution of the Republic of Moldova, the official language of the country is Romanian, the existence of the so-called Moldovan language not being recognized by linguists internationally, being an invention of the Soviet ideology to justify the occupation by the Soviet empire of the historical region of Moldova east of The Prut River and the creation of the Moldovan S.S.R. 3. Speaking the Romanian language, she asserted herself by recording covers of famous Romanian hits and by collaborating with nationalist Romanian composers from the Moldovan S.S.R., like Grigore Vieru, Aldea Teodorovici, Eugen Doga or Dumitru Matcovsch singing in a literary Romanian language, hence the myth of her so-called 'Moldovan language' career.

@Vtarngpb 21 күн бұрын

My dad toured the eastern bloc with the Yale Russian chorus in 1968. They sang traditional choral music, much of which hadn’t been heard since the Second Small Disagreement…and “somehow” happened to be in Czechoslovakia when the Spring happened 😉🤷🏼‍♂️

@UshankaShow 22 күн бұрын

My Soviet Music Playlist: kzfaq.info/sun/PLNq3y0OU1_BYhVy_Vq46GVLlMnlro7ppN Ushanka Digest Playlist: kzfaq.info/sun/PLNq3y0OU1_BY0IrB3IOJPDHTj5z_vwH8F

@mitchyoung93 21 күн бұрын

There's a song in English about the BAM (БАм) sung by a guy named Dean Reed, an American who was a true believer in communism. There' also a vid of him riding atop a train on the BAM singing the American gospel song 'This Train' which is ironic given its religious roots. Theres a great documentary on the BAM and the BAMovtsi on the Redaktsiya channel right here for those who dont mind teading subtitles or who can understand Russian. Many of the workers are stll with us. I wish someone would make something similar about the Alaskan pipeline. Pakhmutova is still alive at 94. Whatever their propaganda aspect her songs 'Love, Komsomol and Spring' and 'The Battle Goes On' are 'bangers' as the kids say today. And her song 'Tenderness' (Nezhnost') is one of the most beautiful Ihave ever heard. Obviously classically trained as tovarishch Sputnikov has told us. Looking forward to discovering Zykina's work. Hvala drug Sputnikov.

@grumsproduktion4083 22 күн бұрын

Wow, will watch this video on my day off, i need to freshen up my russian musician library (it's basically just Vysotskij and DDT...)

@shadowstealer2790 16 күн бұрын

At 3:05 the album cover shown is perennial mainstream British act Cliff Richard. On my trip to the USSR in 1985 aged 19 it seemed he had become acceptable to the govt, appearing as he did in the English language paper Moscow News. For some reason at the time I expected Soviet taste to be more advanced.Being a hip underground music fan for whom Cliff was a joke, Communism died for me there and then.

@kookamunga2458 22 күн бұрын

I was listening to gopnik rap last month and Pussy Riot before that but I am more familiar with Russian classical music like Tchaikovsky , Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich .

@mercster 21 күн бұрын

From Russian wikipedia: "The subsequent decline in the group's popularity and disappearance from television and radio broadcasts are explained by disagreements between the group's members and officials of the Ministry of Culture , who banned the trio from performing outside the Volyn region . The reasons for this disagreement include the group's refusal to give concerts in stadiums, perform Soviet patriotic songs, and attempts to perform songs of the Sich Riflemen." Which is interesting... I have no idea if the defection story is true, but I reckon it could be "official propaganda" due to them not kowtowing to the authorities. Just a thought!

@mercster 21 күн бұрын

Ahh you alluded to this soon after I typed.

@mercster 21 күн бұрын

"Valery Leontiev is married to bass guitarist Lyudmila Isakovich.[46][47] The couple have been together since 1972. However, officially their marriage was registered only in 1998. The artist's wife lives in Miami." But yeah, many of the pics of him are... "interesting."

@besconst 21 күн бұрын

zasloozheny - merited

@adolfoinquiry 10 күн бұрын

Any comments about this? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aMB6dJmpks3FfXU.htmlsi=A_Y3XHLxJMrxEZBM It seems it was singed by Ukrainians and Russians just few years ago, somebody said is from a 80s movie filmed by one of the female pilots who fought in WWII