Recently I had a rush of obsession with black and white retro films, which influenced and defined today's #ttt a lot. I selected three songs from very different artists: Louis Armstrong, Aquarium, Alesha Dimitrievich - nothing unites them together, except for the black and white fan-made retro videos.
Louis Armstrong — La Cucaracha
The unofficial videoclip was cut up from the famous retro film 'Duck soup' - performed by the comedian trio the Marx Brothers. The song itself is more than well-known, but in combination with this videofeed - mmm! perfect match, very beautiful. Does have a look!
Aquarium — Time of the Moon
Aquarium is one of the key rock bands of the late USSR, perhaps N1 band (not my personal N1 but truly loved by heart). Over more than 50 years of its history the band released a lot of different albums, with each having a story behind. The story behind 'Radio Africa' LP recording is unique and magnificent.
In 1983 the mobile recording studio MCI arrived to the city - it belonged to the Melodiya label, very-very official state monopoly. Underground rock-musicians certainly would never got official access there, but... One good fellow, who knew how to connect bridges in USSR, did organized access to the studio in the night time, in a very elegant manner: by bribing the guards with a bottle of vodka! Every day, after the official working day in the studio was coming to the end and the wagon was power-downed... at night rock musicians came in, turned on the electric switch again, and in a short time - about a week - they recorded their music, banned in the USSR, with a quality they had never even dreamed of. On this album I love every song in its own way... ofc videos didn't exist in those years - thus I was especially surprised and happy to find this unofficial fan-made video. It was cut from retro films 'Man with a Camera', and 'Berlin: Symphony'.
Alyosha Dimitrievich — I Married the Wrong Woman
I cant say much about this one. Alyosha Dimitrievich was a French artist of Russian origin, a gypsy... and behind this simplified formula there is a tangled biography that would suit well for a dozen novels. Born in the Russian Empire before WWI, soon he left motherland within the first wave of emigration; his family lived and performed in Japan, the Philippines, India, Greece, Morocco; in the 20s they moved to Spain, and finally settled in France, performing at Parisian restaurants and cabarets. Before WWII they moved to Latin America and lived in Argentina; Dimitrievich returned to Paris only in 1960.
Early in his career he performed as a dancer and acrobat, but after 50 he switched to singing and playing a gypsy guitar - it was exactly this role that I discovered him. Dimitrievich was acquainted with and collaborated with many famous artists and celebrities. The song 'I Married the Wrong Woman' I presenting you today got the fan-made video cut up from comedies created by Buster Keaton - another great man of the silent films era. I am sure you will appreciate this work of art and get all the pleasure you deserve.
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Love Aquarium - Time of the Moon! I was unfamiliar with it but
I'm adding it to my Playlist.
I didn't associate Louis Armstrong with LA Cucaracha. Very interesting!
Wow, we have more and more common interests.
Aquarium is one of my favorite musical groups.
Boris Grebenshchikov loved to come to our city, to Kirov. He always said Vyatka.
His last time in our city was on February 14, 2022. He liked to come on Valentine's Day and arrange a concert. Now he lives outside of Russia. It's a sad story.
Yeah, in 2000-es I paid a lot of my attention to that band. My wife was a huge fan - she recorded up to 15 bootlegs (!) of his live recordings. Although I managed to visit only a few of his gigs, and in late 2000-es it was absolutely not the same as it could be in early 90-es or in late 80-es. Благоприятный момент упущен, как говорится. С другой стороны - старый конь борозды не испортит, верно? Просто они все уже теперь такие матерые профессионалы, что по любому зал поставят на уши. Тем не менее, я предпочитаю old stuff.
«Письма капитана Воронина — концерт в Вятке» в Кирове в октябре 1991 - был долгое время одним из моих любимых альбомов. При будет прикольно знать, что во время его записи ты находился где-то там, в зале :)
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😂😂😂 No, I wasn't in the concert hall at the time. :) I was still a student at that time, I became a young dad in the fall, so I didn't have enough money, I had to study and work
In 1991, I listened to Aquarium recordings on a tape recorder. "This train is on fire" was probably the best thing for me back then.
A-aaaa! Ok then. In 1991 I wasnt acquainted with this band at all. Just listened to one record (officially released on vinyl by Melodiya label) and wasnt impressed. Music like that requires more life experience, I guess. (But I caught up it later, in following years - yet without concert-going experience.) Have a Hive !BEER from me.
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if you got intrested and added it to your playlist, I'd love to point out at those albums first (although the lyrics play the main role in their music, so, I am not sure where you will be getting since they are all in Russian). Aquarium's leader tried to develop his career releasing English record (but it did not work).
So there exist 'Radio Silence' and 'Radio London' LPs which has songs in English.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_London
The best recordings in my opinion are: Radio Afrika (1983), Equinox (1987), Russian Album (1992), Kostroma mon amour (1994)
Thanks! This is helpful.
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BEERKING.Hahaha the video is very funny the first one. I love jazz, here I was singing la cucaracha in Spanish.
I really enjoyed the second video even though I don't understand Russian. I was born in Kiev in 1980, but I don't know... I never learned. My parents do speak a little, but since they don't practice it, they're also rusty. They were studying there and I was born there.
I could not watch the third video because it is blocked for this geographical area.