The best summer hits of the USSR: top 5
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The USSR pop music has always been full of beautiful and melodious compositions on the miscellaneous themes. However, the favourite theme for songwriters and composers was carefree and happiness, which is most often associated with the warmest time of the year. summer.
To this day, musicians compose "summer" songs, but the most vivid compositions about this time of year and its feeling were released long to the present day. About five amazing Soviet songs about summer, their creation and popularity will be discussed in the article.
Alla Pugacheva - "Starry Summer"
Alla Pugacheva's third album entitled "Rise Above Vanity!", named after the last track on the track list, became the best in the singer's discography, because it was on it that her talent as a composer was revealed. "Starry Summer" was written by a very quicklyThe singer was playing a melody on the piano for her daughter Christina. Ilya Reznik, who worked with the artist, after listening to the uncomplicated but charming motif at once wrote the lyrics to a future song.
It is noteworthy that the composition gained its fame after the publication of the children's film of the same name filmsPugacheva was also the composer of the song. The recording of the future hit took place at the "Armenfilm" studio. Soon, when the film premiered and Soviet viewers saw a wonderful picture about a boy spending the summer in a children's camp, many kept a part of it for themselves. moods of the film is in the song of Alla Pugacheva, who creates with her inimitable vocals particular charm and transports many listeners back to their childhood.
Sofia Rotaru - "Only It's Not Enough"
This song, despite its uncomplicated dance motif, is not so simple at first glance. The story of the lyrics began long before publication; the author of the lines is Arseny Tarkovsky - a film director and poet who became a classic of Soviet auteur cinema. Despite the fact that many of his poems became the basis for many compositions, he never worked with musicians, so the appearance in 1988 in the performance of Sofia Rotaru's track "Only This Is Not Enough" was unexpected.
The touching lines were first heard in a film by Arseny Alexandrovich's son Andrei "Stalker.". The reading of this poem in the context of the film is quite different from what we hear in the composition: here it is precisely the melancholy the mood of the lyric, lostness and sadness. Many listeners and critics, familiar with Tarkovsky's lyrics even before the song appeared, noted that the message in Rotaru's performance was fundamentally different. changedbut this version also has a place on the pop stage.
VIA "Flowers" - "Summer Evening"
The story of this song might never have begun if in the late 70s Stas Namin, one of the leading musicians of the USSR at the time and the leader of the band "Flowers."He had not met the poet Vladimir Kharitonov, who was then a member of the Writers' Union. Namin and his band had difficulty releasing material because the musician did not have membership in the Union of Composers, and without it it was difficult to promote his work in the Union awkwardly. Kharitonov offered the leader of "Flowers" his help, and Stas agreed.
The poet has become official author of the lyrics to the group's songs, and Namin wrote music to its works, which included the legendary "Summer Evening". Of particular importance is motive composition: initially the composer used the track "Angie" by the British rock band The Rolling Stones as a basis, but after its release the song was compared to the Eagles' hit "Hotel California", and it almost came to the point of being accused of plagiarism. The musician himself believes that such a coincidence is due to the fact that the then guitarist of "Flowers" Igor Sarukhanov at that time acquired the similar instrument played by a musician from a Western band and played the first melody he remembered while recording the song. Despite this, the listeners gently loved the Soviet ensemble track.
VIA "Jolly Guys" - "Summer Was Gone"
Another summery and groovy tune that has become a marker developments of Soviet pop music. But despite the song's great success in the Union, it did not immediately bring success to the Spanish duo Baccara and the original version of a future hit song.
Baccara grabbed the last rays of disco music fame in the mid-70s. Two girls, Maite Mateos and Maria Mendiola, became the project of producer Rolf Soi, who came up with the concept for the duo and wrote their most loud hits such as 1977's "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" and "Cara Mia", which became the second song from the debut single. While the boogie dance hit was rising to the top of the charts in Europe, the next track was unfairly forgottenbut what I really got was fame in the Soviet Union.
VIA "Jolly Guys" has long remained best Soviet musical group, and in 1979 their popularity was only strengthened by the song "Summer was Leaving" from the record "Musical Globe". Lyudmila Barykina's performance became for a long time a favourite among music fans reference and the fondest memory from my youth.
"Mirage" - "Sunny Summer"
The album "Stars are Waiting for Us" by the band "Mirage" began the story domestic of pop music. He became popular practically at once: it got on the radio, and many songs from the record became famous, including the hit "Sunny Summer".
It is noteworthy that this composition was included in the list of those recorded Margarita Sukhankinawho had long been reluctant to be associated with a pop group because it might interfere with her studies at the conservatoire. However, the summer song, with a slight touch of sadnesses still became the best in the entire discography of the group and the singer herself, and also received the status of one of the most beautiful Soviet songs about summer.