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Wiera Gran sings Russian tango Ciemna noc Temnaya Noch
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Wiera Gran Zespół Jerzego Abratowskiego (Jerzy Abratowski's Band) - Ciemna noc (Temnaya noch) (Dark Night) (Music: Nikita Bogoslovsky, Polish text: Julian Tuwim), Russian tango from 1941, Sung and recorded for Polskie Nagrania, 1965 (Poland) • • NOTE: Nikita Bogoslovsky (B. 1913 in St. Petersburg) was one of Russia's most prolific and popular songwriters who performed for soldiers at the front lines and for the wounded in hospitals during the Second World War. He wrote about 300 songs and composed scores for 119 films and 80 shows. Bogoslovsky mastered many popular music styles and incorporated the spirit and beat of the American jazz as well as the intimacy of French chanson and lyrical finesse of English ballads and other international styles into his own songs. His most popular film songs such as, 'Temnaya Noch (aka.. Dark Is the Night), 'Shalandy' (aka..Boats Full of Mullet), 'Beloved City' and others, were admired by people of several generations in Russia, becoming best selling hits in recordings by Leonid Utyosov and Mark Bernes. In 1943, when Winston Churchill first heard Bogoslovsky's song 'Dark Is the Night' in performance by Ivan Kozlovsky, he became a great admirer of the song; upon Churchill's order many copies of 'Dark Is the Night' were shipped to Britain. During the late 1940s and early 50s Bogoslovsky was censored and banned from public performances, to be back on stage in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Bogoslovsky was crowned with the title The King of Gags and was a host of popular TV shows in Russia. He was memorialized in works of art, in literature, and by astronomers: in 1993 a small planet # 3710 was named Bogoslovsky after him. • • The beautiful Polish text was written by a distinguished poet, Julian Tuwim. It is designeed in the form of a letter, written from the front by a soldier to his wife and child. Avoiding cheap sentimentality, Tuwim wrote lyrics touching the simple human feelings of hope, nostalgy and fear and touching the core of young soldier's solitude in the vast strange land he had been thrown into, and the death, threatening him in every moment. A repeated line of his belief that he will see his child and his beloved woman again is a kind of incantation he's trying to cast on his bad fate. • • Another lovely song by Wiera Gran, and info about her life • Wiera Gran sings American tango - Orc...
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