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The Red Army Choir, 1965 - a musical powerhouse

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 Blue Straggler 26 Aug 2013
In reply to Tony Naylor:

Accursed sidebar led me to this

youtube.com/watch?v=f3nWQqPL4G0&
 mrbird 26 Aug 2013
In reply to Tony Naylor: I bought a collection of theirs from iTunes yesterday. Brilliant stuff. Heres another belter

youtube.com/watch?v=tD_Y9iVq3kY&

A good thing the cold war is over or we`d be getting waterboarded in Gitmo.
 Dom Whillans 26 Aug 2013
In reply to Tony Naylor:
this is increasingly one of my favourite youtube clips...
youtube.com/watch?v=uNb54rwDQJM&
Removed User 26 Aug 2013
In reply to Dom Whillans:

Stirring stuff. My Dad used to sing that in the bath, he had quite a good baritone voice too.

When I saw Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra at Celtic Connections last year they came out to this:

youtube.com/watch?v=MonOD6AeAH4&

It's up there with La Marseillaise and Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau.


 Gudrun 26 Aug 2013
In reply to Tony Naylor:
Wonderful!I just love the sound of Slavic men singing and talking too,they are so i don't know sing songy but with sounds that are so alien to us.

I just have to post the most stirring,inspiring and beautiful national anthem in the world by a mile. youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs&
 Gudrun 26 Aug 2013
In reply to Removed User:

Snap!
 ben b 27 Aug 2013
In reply to Tony Naylor: There's always this little treat:

Happy Together - with the Leningrad Cowboys

spotify:track:5c5Kax2UjiKsfeRDYX2FB4

youtube.com/watch?v=-rv1CTZSIU0& (lousy sound quality though)

Something magnificent about burly russians belting out english songs entirely phonetically.

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 Doug 27 Aug 2013
In reply to ben b: The Red Army Choir gave an open air concert close to home a couple of years ago, and as it was free we went along to listen. Bizarre mix of songs, Russian folk songs, opera & some 'western' pop music, including a version of Tom Jone's Sex bomb - this might have been filmed on the same tour
youtube.com/watch?v=WJPgveHnMd0&
 ben b 27 Aug 2013
In reply to Doug: Sounds like it could be. There's a hint of sadness and a whiff of "we'll do anything for a paycheque since the wall came down" but heck that's quite a voice. I'm not sure why I should have this prejudice by comparison to the band of the Coldstream Guards for instance...

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Jimbo W 27 Aug 2013
In reply to Tony Naylor:

Wow, I didn't know David Cameron could sing like that!
OP Thrudge 27 Aug 2013
In reply to Blue Straggler:
Brilliant!
OP Thrudge 27 Aug 2013
In reply to mrbird:
> (In reply to Tony Naylor) I bought a collection of theirs from iTunes yesterday. Brilliant stuff. Heres another belter
>
> youtube.com/watch?v=tD_Y9iVq3kY&

Yeah, that one raises the hairs on the back of my neck.
 Red Rover 27 Aug 2013
In reply to Tony Naylor: This is a good one. youtube.com/watch?v=YEt41bYQBgE&

OP Thrudge 27 Aug 2013
In reply to Gudrun:
> I just have to post the most stirring,inspiring and beautiful national anthem in the world by a mile. youtube.com/watch?v=U06jlgpMtQs&

Yep, that is moving stuff.

In reply to The Lemming: How about asking them to do the song for the next Bond film...?

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