Igor Talkov (4 November 1956 - 6 October 1991)
“I Will Be Back” (1990)
“Summer Rain” (1990)
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration and all kinds of paper whimsy from the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 7 years old. I have an etsy shop for cards, books, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
Alla Pugachyova - “Good Bye, Summer” (1978)
A song of love that didn’t happen.
Alla Pugachyova - Girst-grader’s Song (1978)
Krug (Circle) - Not A Word About Love (1986)
Krug - You Said Believe Me (1986)
Goodbye America, oh
Where I have never been
Take the banjo and
Play me goodbye
Your worn jeans
Became too small for me
We’ve been taught for so long
To love your forbidden fruit
Goodbye America, oh
Where I will never be
Arkady Pogodin - In the Chayir Park (1939)
Chayir is a park in Gaspra, Crimea
I’ll Hop Off At a Distant Station (На дальней станции сойду)
So I love this song and it’s, as they say now, a big mood. To hop off in the middle of nowhere, to stride through endless fields and cornflower meadows, and not have a single worry. I can’t wait for my July vacation! I would hop on a train and go somewhere, anywhere right now.
Original version performed by Gennady Belov, as featured in “A Secret Shared” movie (1978)
A later rendition by “Plamya”
And a much later, post-Soviet rendition by “Grazhdanskaya Oborona” (2002), a Russian punk-rock group. I’m a bit partial to this one because it’s the one I actually lived through.
Get into the Russian mood — here’s some awesome folk music for ya
Over the River Wonder
In the Damp Forest
Порушка-параня (I have no clue what the title means, but it’s the famous one about the Curly Ivan that a girl named Praskovya fancies)
Barynya (Madame)
Kurevushka (Kureva means blizzard in a Siberian dialect). A different mood in this one, but I really really love it.