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Re: Russian Tango



sophie solomon wrote:
> 
> Sofia,
> I really appreciate your help with all this... I don't suppose you have the
> words for utomlyennie sol'ntsem do you?  I've been trying to transcribe them
> from the title sequence to mikhalkov's movie - and although I have most of
> them, there are a few gaps, where the singer is not totally audible over the
> violin/accordion....especially the first line of the chorus.. which ends
> with the second line 'v eto vinovaty ty i ya'...
> hope you can help!
> thanks sophie

Utomlyonnoe solntse
Nezhno s morem proshalos,
V etot chas ty priznalas,
Chto net lyubvi...
Mne nemnogo vzgrustnulos
Ot toski i pechali...

(I don't remember how is further)
Sophia,
Russia
> >From: "Sofia V. Shneider" <soph (at) ccn(dot)org(dot)ru>
> >Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> >To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> >Subject: Re: Russian Tango
> >Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:36:37 +0600
> >
> >Owen Davidson wrote:
> > >
> > > Sofia,
> > >
> > > Is there a possibility that the surname Kobzon indicates a musical
> >lineage?
> > > Specifically, a kobza player?
> > >
> > > Owen
> > >
> > > "Sofia V. Shneider" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Also this tango has been performed by Joseph Kobzon (by the way
> > > > he is a Jew).
> >No. This surname was indeed Kopzon, but "b" letter appeared just because
> >of a prononciation of this surname. By the way: Joseph Kobzon was born
> >in Ukraine, Donetsk or Dnepropetrovsk region (maybe between), he was a
> >Jew from the shtetl. (he has been singing a song about Jewish shtetl -
> >"but there is no peace in our home and we must go out - but where?")
> >Kobzon is a member of Russian State Duma (http://www.duma.ru). He also
> >knows Russian folk songs and romances, Ukrainian folk songs and songs of
> >other nations (Armenian, Moldavian, Georgian and even Buryad). But he is
> >a Jew. Kobzon recorded a CD "A yiddishe mame" with Jewish songs. He (I
> >know) has been singing A Yiddishe Mame, Bei Mir Bist Du Shein, Tum
> >Balalaika, Heveinu Shalom Aleichem etc. But Kobzon is a Russian patriot,
> >he was singing - "if Russia live, I would be alive". It's a poem of
> >Eugene Evtushenko, a famous defender of Jews with his poem Babiy Yar -
> >The White Snows Are Going. Music of this song was written by Edward
> >Kolmanovsky, a Jewish person.
> >
> >Sophia,
> >Russia
> > >
> > > Owen Davidson
> > > Amherst  Mass
> > > The Wholesale Klezmer Band
> > >
> > > The Angel that presided oer my birth
> > > Said Little creature formd of Joy & Mirth
> > > Go Love without the help of any King on Earth
> > >
> > > Wm. Blake
> > >
> >
> >
> 
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