Remembering the best songs performed by your favourite actor

Yuri Nikulin gave a happy childhood to millions of Soviet citizens! His comic image delighted the general public, and has forever gone down in history Soviet cinema. During his dazzling and incredibly long career Nikulin starred in dozens of films! He is especially remembered by audiences for his film masterpieces Leonid Gaidaisuch as "Operation Y.", "The Caucasian Captive.", "12 Chairs." and others. However, many people remember this bright man also by his brilliant musical numbers, without which it is impossible to imagine the above-mentioned films today! Below we offer you to remember best songs performed by your favourite actor...

"Wait, Steam Locomotive."

"The People's.", "backyard", "camp" - that song is known by many names. Meanwhile, it was the subject of a famous film comedy "Operation "Y" and other adventures of Shurik."The legend says that during the filming Gaidai said that he needed a special song that would "emphasise the image of the unlucky trio". Legend has it that during filming Gaidai said that he needed a special song, which "would emphasise in all colours the image of the unlucky trio". Then Nikulin suggested "Wait, Steam Locomotive."which was loved by the director and then by the whole world - it was even translated into English and Hebrew!

Overall, the story of this composition is. tangled и ambiguous... For a long time, she was thought to be folkbut as the years went by, a certain someone Nikolay Ivanovsky. According to him, he wrote the lyrics to this song in the 18 years old. By the way: from an early age Nicholas had problems with the law, and in general spent behind bars. more than 10 years - from 14 to 25! Finally freed up and got a job as a lighting technician at the "Lenfilm", the man became interested in poetry, and soon began travelling on duty throughout the country ... However, he did not write the music to the famous "Steam Engine".

However, soon after the statement of the "poet in law", another claimant for the authorship of "Wait, Steam Locomotive" was found - it turned out to be Genrikh Solomonovich Sechkin: musician, publicist, writer, educator, who also served a considerable amount of time in the early...

It's quite possible that he has nothing to do with the schlager. In any case. his name appears frequently in the story of this piece.

"If I Were Sultan."

Officially, the composition "If I Were Sultan." is the product of the poet's creative tandem. Leonid Derbenev and composer Alexandra Zatsepina. But it's only official. In fact, the song was composed by the entire film crew, literally piece by piece! From the memoirs of Leonid Petrovich's wife, Nina Ivanovna:

"In fact, the composition "If I were Sultan" was not his song. The whole band composed it then, word by word, phrase by phrase...".

Nevertheless, this did not prevent Derbenev from gaining popularity as the author of the hit song that adorned the famous "The Caucasian Captive"! A rousing song sung Bollocks - by Yuri Nikulin's character, quickly resonated with the audience of many millions! The full-fledged version was even played on the radio afterwards, and the company "Melody." issued a gramophone record with the soundtrack of the film comedy.

Many artists and not-so-famous figures have performed this uncomplicated joke hit, including the very Vladimir Zhirinovsky…

"The Hare Song."

And, of course. "The Hare Song." rounds out our list. It is probably one of the most recognisable brand cards Nikulina. He did it in the film "Diamond Hand."which the audience loved as much as the composition itself... What is most interesting is that originally this funny thing was not in the script at all! Yuri Vladimirovich's character was supposed to perform in his famous scene "The Song of a Simple Soviet Man". However, something went wrong... From the memoirs of Alexander Zatsepin:

"This song was labelled in the script as 'The Song of a Simple Soviet Man'. I composed the melody right away, but I had trouble with the chorus... I tried many variants, but everything was wrong. And then in the morning I was standing in the bathroom, shaving, and suddenly the music was born in my head!"

The text was written by the same Derbenev: the poet worked clearly in accordance with the task at hand, but Zatsepin rejected the original lyricism. He succeeded reassure a colleague to write something more interesting and amusing - and so was born the famous "tryn-grass"! It was thanks to the composer that the country heard a strange song about hares, not about a simple Soviet man... And for this we are grateful to him!