Earlier today I put up a video clip of a Soviet beat group calling themselves 'The Secret'. In a comment to that post, reader 'R' pointed us to this performance of the Finnish group 'Leningrad Cowboys', partnered with the so-called 'Red Army Choir' (more formally titled the Alexandrov Ensemble). Here they are in 1993, performing Lynyrd Skynyrd's 'Sweet Home Alabama', segueing into the Motown classic 'Dancing In The Street'. The Russian and Finnish accents make it rather . . . different!
I thought the balalaikas were a nice touch - but that hairstyle! What's with the unicorn horn thingy? I've never seen that in Alabama . . .
Peter
I've heard the Red Army Choir doing their version of "It's Only Rock And Roll But I Like It".
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Hair and the shoes. A family member introduced me to the Leningrad Cowboys. There's nothing quite like them, which is probably for the best.
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Wait, Finns and Russians on the same stage, with no vodka and no fighting?
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ReplyDeleteI know 1 Finn and 2 Russians. Vodka is always involved. What I'm saying is, it is almost always visibly involved.
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ReplyDeleteMatches the shoes, dude!
Or...did you (somehow) not notice?...
Nice li'l inclusion of a few bars of The Volga Boatman's Song, at the end of "...Alabama", too.
Way, way cool!
Certainly brings into focus just which side won the Cold War. Could you imagine the reaction you'd get showing this to someone back in the mid-1980s?
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