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The Songs, which unite people

elbkup

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Thank you! :clapper: I really like the clip, and it is wonderful, that it has the subtitles.

Actually, I remembered, that Russian police and Russian Army Choir were singing some good songs in English...
"Happy" is one of these songs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJuAu0THow Russian police sings "Happy"

Russian Army Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AtBnowLuVI Maybe I, Maybe You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fEbMhR_qXk Show must go on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBhlahKwtkg Jingle Bells and Happy New Year

I wanted to mention "Jingle Bells", I think this happy song is VERY popular in many countries, it is easy to sing... Though maybe the list will become too long, if all the Christmas songs will be added to it.

Russian "Happy" video is just AWESOME!!! :yahoo:
 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrzKBF6gDU - LOUIS ARMSTRONG what wonderful world
I adored that movie!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88 - Edith Piaf - Non, Je ne regrette rien
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I - Kamakawiwo : Somewhere over the Rainbow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbg7YoXiKn0 - Stand By Me, Ben E King

Thank you.

"Je ne regrette rien"? Well, at least, it is a very strong and good song.

I am not sure (I don't want to lie), but it seems this song is the most popular among children, who come to the Russian "Voice. Kids". We had 3 seasons of this project, and 7 girls were singing "Je ne regrette rien" (at least).
Many of these names are not very Russian... There are many nations in Russia.
They all are our children.

"Je ne regrette rien"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhpmv7TBxsU&t=1m00s Emilia Lidzhiyeva and dombra (11 y.o.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8CZPRZVZfs Saida Mukhametzyanova (13 y.o.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iRfSgimHPo Nonna Eganyan (11 y.o.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqHaXLcnyi8 Irina Morozova (14 y.o.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy-yZ87hRvs Anna Zayets (12 y.o.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnw1HXd9BY Nailya Umitbayeva (14 y.o.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uZsMv-A_Uo Elizaveta Shaluba (14 y.o.)

I am too lazy to watch the adult "Voice", but children are ravishingly mighty!

One more French song. For 2 reasons. I think this is one of the most beautiful perfomances, which we had in this project. And this girl is from Chechnya. Our relations with Chechens are not so bad now, but it is important to make these relations better. I like how she says it: "Chechnya, Grozny!"

Rayana Aslanbekova, "Derniere danse" (14 y.o.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML-Edou4JyU
 

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("Voice. Kids")

"Imagine"
(Now I know I had heard "Imagine". But I didn't remember.)
Veniamin Nurgaleyev, Anastasia Dmitrachkova, Vsevolod Rudakov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKojjpLNAVg&t=58s

"Maybe I Maybe You"
Azer Nasibov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3B5IFJkmRo&t=10s
Vladimir Chernoklinov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiqhjBz7dsQ

Our children also sing "Hallelujah", but they sing not a love song (nothing about "tying to a kitchen chair"). On the first video the text is absolutely changed, on the second video the children sing in 3 languages.
Artyom Kolesnikov, Yulia Sirinko, Marsel Sabirov, Ksenia Ponomarenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXiIrYrOOU
Saida Mukhametzyanova, Kamilla Kusova, Renata Tazetdinova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPEfSffPEno
 

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("Voice. Kids")

"Imagine"
(Now I know I had heard "Imagine". But I didn't remember.)
Veniamin Nurgaleyev, Anastasia Dmitrachkova, Vsevolod Rudakov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKojjpLNAVg&t=58s

"Maybe I Maybe You"
Azer Nasibov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3B5IFJkmRo&t=10s
Vladimir Chernoklinov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiqhjBz7dsQ

Our children also sing "Hallelujah", but they sing not a love song (nothing about "tying to a kitchen chair"). On the first video the text is absolutely changed, on the second video the children sing in 3 languages.
Artyom Kolesnikov, Yulia Sirinko, Marsel Sabirov, Ksenia Ponomarenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXiIrYrOOU
Saida Mukhametzyanova, Kamilla Kusova, Renata Tazetdinova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPEfSffPEno

thanks..I love these performances. I really love this young guy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEREbdcczHw

and because of this is a figure skating forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKLNUsBhtx8 great song from Pugacheva!
 
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I knew nothing about Averbukh's new LP, when I started this thread...
Averbukh says: "we really care about the same things".
The Russians really need to be united, and not only with other Russians...

It doesn't mean, that Averbukh's new LP will be good,
but I want to show two more very gentle and very important songs.


The first song is "The cranes".
text: Rasul Gamzatov (USSR)
translated into Russian by Naum Grebnev
music: Yan Frenkel

This song says:
"It seems to me sometimes, that the soldiers, who didn't come back from the bloody fields, were not buried in our ground, but turned into white cranes..."
the video (make sure, that the subtitles are switched on)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THeGsS_Skew

The second one is "The Victory Day"
We listened to it at school (it was my third year at school or even earlier).
And I remember, that these words really impressed me:
This is a celebration with gray hair on our heads,
This is a gladness with tears in our eyes...

I think I felt, that gray hair is gray forever. I don't remember, what I knew about the war. The teacher was telling us about Kosmodemyanskaya. Kosmodemyanskaya's death was awful, but I don't remember, what our teacher told about her. Sure the teacher knew, that she speaks with children.
I heard this song again and again, but for many years I remembered only these words: gray hair, gladness, tears. And the words "The Victory Day", of course.
This song is translated, but it is a pity, that the most important words are not saved in the translation. "Sadness" is not the right word. I didn't see the war, but it is not "sadness", when I nearly can't breath, when I nearly cry, yet I smile.
Anyway, this song is beautiful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIzwem1SOC0
(you can see the text below the video, if English is not your native language)

I showed the videos with the Russians singing together "The Victory Day"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vUK6EZFfj4&t=1m30s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SabJxjhPiM&t=3m12s

(Actually, a nice company of Russians. Averbukh is a Jewish name, Tutberidze is a Georgian name. And Medvedeva's name wasn't Russian too, her name was Armenian. They all are people of Russian culture, united by our language, our songs, our history...)
 
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Song that unites the world? Hands down IMAGINE :ghug:

I always found it interesting that a song that starts by asking its listeners to imagine there is no heaven is so often seen as this great spiritual unifier. Karl Marx would love it!
 

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IMAGINE
I always found it interesting that a song that starts by asking its listeners to imagine there is no heaven is so often seen as this great spiritual unifier. Karl Marx would love it!

I trust in God, but I think these words are right.

I think we shouldn't just hope, that our life will become good after our death. This world can be good. Actually, this world is perfect.

One good teacher was asked: "Do you believe, that life without orphan homes is possible?" He answered: "You remind me that song: All the life is ahead, do hope and wait!.. Why should we believe or wait? We should do it."
 

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elbkup

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Thank you very much. I listen everything here.

To say the truth, I am not sure, that I like this song, but this is interesting for me. Thank you.

Thanks for your input. I agree it is not a happy or pleasant song but it did unite a generation who were decidedly again the war in Viet Nam.
 
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