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Sesame Street Alphabet Songs

Sesame Street Alphabet Songs

Sesame Street Alphabet Songs video was released in 2014 by Warner Home Video. The theme of Special is alphabet. These segments are compiled from Sesame Street episodes.

Some of the segments in the Special are as follows:

The Sesame Street Alphabet song; It is a song sung by Elmo, Abby, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and other Sesame Street characters.

Letter A Adventure is a film featured in the video.

Soul A is an animated song about the letter "A".

Film: Two kids love B words and talk about B words they like.

No Letter Better Than B is a song sung by Dixie Chicks. The clip also features Bert, Big Bird, Baby Bear and The Count. This song is also featured in the All-Star Alphabet, Singing with the Stars videos.

Film: Two children who love the letter C imagine C words in the clouds.

C is for Cookie is a song performed by Cookie Monster. It was first aired on Episode 0372. The version included in Sesame Street Alphabet Songs is a 1998 remake version.

Film: Ballerina kids talk about D. Dance started with the letter D. D is for Dance.

Animation: D Dance iPod parody. Elmo, Big Bird and Snuffy dance to the letter D.

Animation: The letter E is pronounced as a Gregorian chant.

E - Elephant Song is the song that features the animated version of Cookie Monster, first released on Episode 4188.

The Alphabet Song is performed by Ray Charles. This is a very old Sesame Street classic.

Film: F is for float.

Animation: Uppercase and lowercase Fs grow in a garden.

Muppets: There are two girls, they find G words. G: The G Club is preparing for the G-gionals. They sings a short song that are about guh sound of G. Sue who is gym teacher and her Geerios arrive. They sing a song that is their own song, it includes stresses the juh sound. When the two groups argue about which sound is the correct one, the letter G appears in order to express he can make both sounds. Both work together. They sing a song.

Animation: The letters G appear along with the song G is Great.

Film: Two children find H words. H is for Home.

Soul H is the version of Soul alphabet songs for the letter "h". Soul H is also featured in the All-Star Alphabet video.

Film: Isabelle says I words.

Traction Jackson's I Song is an animated song that first aired on Sesame Street Episode 4227. The song is performed by Traction Jackson and Kayla. This song is also featured in the Learning Letters with Elmo video.

J Robot shows words that start with the letter "J" in a cartoon.

J - Jacket Song is a song sung by Elmo's animated version to promote the letter "J". Jacket Song also appears in the "Learning Letters with Elmo" video. 

The Alphabet Song, performed by Jamie Foxx. Elmo accompanies Jamie Foxx.

Film: Alphabet Pictures presents letter "K". K is for Kite.

Film: In a film, Ornate K spins around.

Film: A rube goldberg device gradually makes a Giant L.

The song "La, La, La" is performed by Bert and Ernie. The song was first aired on Sesame Street Episode 0321. The song was also featured in "Learning About Letters", "Best of Friends", "Awesome Alphabet Collection" videos.

M is for Monster; It is a song sung by Sesame Street characters such as Zoe, Telly, Elmo, Harry monster. This song was also featured on the All-Star Alphabet and the Awesome Alphabet Collection.

Animation: A boy appears at the N museum.

Celebrity Lullabies is a lullaby sung to Elmo by Ricky Gervais. This lullaby is featured in many specials other than Sesame Street Alphabet Songs.

Film: A child in a submarine finds the O words in the sea.

"Would You Like to Buy an O?" is a song performed by Lefty the Salesman. Lefty the Salesman tries to sell Ernie the letter "O". It was first published in Sesame Street Episode 0364.

ABC Space Song is the alphabet letters-themed song that a child sings with aliens.

Animation: The ants are walking in a picnic like a military unit.

Animation: Foods that start with the letter P appear with latin music.

The Question Song is a song about the letter "Q" sung by a little girl. Grover accompanies the little girl in the clip.

Quincy's Letter Q Song is an animated song in which a boy named Quincy rescues quails.

Animation: A group of kids discover R words.

S Word is a game played between Prairie Dawn and Grover. Grover has 15 seconds to say a word that starts with the letter "S".

Sammy the Snake is a song about the letter "S" performed by a snake.

Animation: A white letter T sings Plain White T's Song.

Muppets: Miles, Herry Monster, Telly Monster, Grover, Zoe, Elmo, Rosita, and Cookie Monster sing ABC Hip Hop.

Song: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles sing U Really Got a Hold on Me.

Film: Alphabet Pictures Presents The Letter V.

Muppets: Letter of the Day X. The Doctor observes Cookie Monster with the x-ray machine.

Animation: Animated Cookie Monster sings X X-Ray song.

Song: Don't Know Y song performed by Norah Jones and Elmo.

Song: Why Do I Love the Letter Y.

Muppets: Over the Top sings ZZ Blues.

Gospel Alphabet is a Sesame Street song sung by Patti LaBelle and some Sesame Street characters.

You can watch the Sesame Street Alphabet Songs video on our website.

Big Bird Lyrics, Songs and Albums

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D Is for Dance! [2019]

All-Time Favorites 2 [2018]

Sesame Street: Elmo's Dance Party [2012]

Sesame Street: Summer Collection [2012]

Sesame Street: Travel Songs [2012]

Sesame Street: Songs From the Street, Vol.

Sesame Street: Songs From the Street, Vol. 6 [2003]

Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music [2003]

Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music [3 Discs] [2003]

Kids' Favorite Songs 2 [2001]

Elmopalooza! [1998]

Hot! Hot! Hot! Dance Songs [1997]

Kids Favorite Songs [1997]

Sesame Street: Kids' Favorite Songs [1997]

Sesame Street: The Best of Elmo [1997]

Sesame Street: The Best of Elmo [1997]

The Best of Elmo [1997]

Bird Is The Word!: Big Bird's Favorite Songs [1995]

Elmo's Favorite Sing-Alongs [1995]

Numbers [1995]

Sesame Street (Platinum All-Time Favorites) [1995]

Jahmekya [1991]

Sesame Street Christmas Sing-Along [1984]

Just Friends, Vol.

Sesame Street: Grin and Giggle With Big Bird [1981]

Sesame Street: Sesame Country [1981]

Sesame Street: Love [1980]

The Sesame Street Anniversary Album [1978]

Sesame Street: Signs! [1977]

Bert & Ernie Sing-Along [1974]

Big Bird Sings! [1974]

Big Bird Sings! [1974]

My Sesame Street Record: All About Me! [1974]

Pete Seeger & Brother Kirk Visit Sesame Street [1974]

All-Time Favorites 1

L Is for Love!

Sesame Street: Platinum Too, Vol.

Sesame Street: Sunny Days Collection

Sesame Street: V Is for Valentine

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"Bird", "Blue Bird", "Bird of Happiness", "Migratory Bird" and 16 more hits

Natasha Koroleva. Photo: Anatoly Zhdanov

Our selection includes the exotic "Pink Flamingo" by Alena Sviridova, the legendary "Cuckoo" of the Kino group, the heroic "Bullfinches" of Ivanushki, several types of pigeons, and even a couple of mythical specimens. Feel like music lovers ornithologists. So, the top 20 best songs about birds.

1. Vladimir Bunchikov "Migratory Birds Are Flying"

• Released: 1949
• Authors: Matvey Blanter (music), Mikhail Isakovsky (lyrics)

“Migratory Birds Are Flying” is the first joint creation of poet Mikhail Iskakovsky and composer Matvey Blanter. Subsequently, such front-line songs as “Katyusha”, “Enemies burned their own hut” and others became their offspring.

There is a version that this song was written as a response to the wave of emigration from the Soviet Union. “And I remain with you, my native country forever! I don’t need the Turkish coast and I don’t need Africa, ”the lyrical hero of the song assures.

Vladimir Bunchikov became its first performer. The inscription is still carved on his grave: “And I remain with you, my native country forever ...” The composition also sounds like a refrain in the film “Cold Summer of 1953”. "Migratory birds are flying" was performed by many artists: Iosif Kobzon, Willy Tokarev, the group "Chizh & Co" and others.

2. Mark Bernes "Cranes"

• Released: 1969
• Authors: Yan Frenkel (music), Rasul Gamzatov (lyrics), Naum Grebnev (translation)

The idea of ​​a poem about cranes was born by the Dagestan poet Rasul Gamzatov during his visit to the Peace Memorial Park located in Hiroshima and the monument to the girl Sadako Sasaki. During the atomic bombing, Sadako was only 1.5 km from the epicenter of the explosion. She survived, but a few years later she developed leukemia due to the radiation she received. Being in the hospital almost on her deathbed, Sadako believed that her cherished desire to recover would be fulfilled if she had time to fold a thousand paper cranes out of paper - such is the Japanese legend. Information about whether the girl had time varies. However, paper cranes, of course, could not save her.

This sad story in Gamzatov's mind was combined with memories of loved ones who died in the Great Patriotic War, and the poem "Cranes" appeared. It was written in the poet's native Avar language and, translated into Russian by Naum Grebnev, was first published in the Novy Mir magazine in 1968. There he was seen by Mark Bernes, already widely known at that time, and it sunk into his soul. At the insistence of Bernes, the poem was partially rewritten by Grebnev - however, everything was within the framework of the author's original.

For the first time the song "Cranes" was heard at the traditional meeting of war veterans in the editorial office of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda". After listening to the composition, Marshal Ivan Konev hugged Bernes and said: “Thank you! What a pity that we are denied the right to cry.” By the way, Bernes himself recorded the song, already being seriously ill, it became the last in his life and was released in 1969, a month after his death.

3. Evgeny Martynov "Swan Fidelity"

• Released: 1975
• Authors: Evgeny Martynov (music), Andrey Dementiev (lyrics)

In 1975, the poet Andrey Dementiev, who at that time was deputy editor of the Yunost magazine, came across a letter addressed to the editors about how a local collective farm leader shot several swans during a hunt. Human cruelty excited the author of the letter and served as the starting point for writing a ballad about love and devotion, which later became known as "Swan Fidelity".

Dementiev asked his friend and composer, with whom he already had joint "brainchildren", Evgeny Martynov, to write music for the future song. Martynov also became the first performer of the composition, then passing the "relay baton" to Sofia Rotaru. In her performance, "Swan Fidelity" sounded on the "Song of the Year-1975".

“I want swans to live, and from white flocks, and from white flocks the world has become brighter”, - later Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Julian, Ani Lorak and other stars included in their repertoire.

4. Blue Bird Time Machine

• Released: 1979
• Author: Andrey Makarevich* (words and music)

For a long time it was believed that the song "Blue Bird" was written in 1979. Then the composition of the Time Machine group was updated, which included Andrei Makarevich (September 2, 2022, the Ministry of Justice recognized him as a “foreign agent”), Alexander Kutikov, Pyotr Podgorodetsky and Valery Efremov. The musicians began to form a new repertoire. "Blue Bird" allegedly became one of the songs written in the piggy bank of the team.

However, later in an interview, the author said that the composition was born much earlier. In 1974, together with colleagues from other teams, he worked at the Moscow State University sports camp in Jamet - the guys were responsible for the musical accompaniment at the dances. One of the songs performed by the temporarily put together team and having success was "Ahi, ahi ragazzo" by the Italian singer Rita Pavone. “People danced desperately to it, already demonstrating their coming love for Italian music. This banal thieves harmony stuck in my head. This is how The Blue Bird was written, he recalled.

In 1999, this song, along with eight more compositions from Time Machine, entered the top 100 Russian rock songs of the 20th century, according to Nashe Radio listeners.

5. Nikolay Gnatyuk "The Bird of Happiness"

• Released: 1980
• Authors: Alexandra Pakhmutova (music), Nikolai Dobronravov (lyrics)

The song was the fruit of the joint work of spouses Nikolai Dobronravov and Alexandra Pakhmutova. Singer Nikolai Gnatyuk first heard the composition while visiting a family creative tandem, and immediately realized that he would not be happy without the “Bird of Happiness”. True, in the original version, the bird of luck not only flew in, “ringing its wings”, but also flew away. This disturbed Gnatiuk, who longed for constancy on the part of the mythical feathered one, and at his request, in his performance, the bird did not leave him.

“Choose me, choose me, the bird of happiness of tomorrow” , - subsequently the composition was covered by many performers, including Vitas and VIA “Hello, song”.

6. VIA Verasy "Malinovka"

• Released: 1980
• Authors: Eduard Khanok (music), Anatoly Poperechny (lyrics)

Eduard Hanok wrote the song while in Brest, Belarus. At that time, he was already considered a famous composer, his works were performed by Eduard Khil, "Gems", Alla Pugacheva. It was the latter that he tried to unsubscribe a new “product”, however, the Prima Donna was not interested in “Robin”. Then Hanok decided that good should not be lost, and gave the song to local musicians who played in restaurants. It was there that the members of the vocal-instrumental ensemble "Verasy" heard it for the first time.

“Having heard the voice of the Robins, I will remember the forgotten dates” – this composition received ambiguous assessments from different members of the “Verases”, but nevertheless it was decided to take it into the repertoire. For the first time, "Robin" sounded on the air of the TV show "Morning Mail" - a children's clay whistle was used in the recording of the composition. And when then, during the tour, the audience began to ask to perform a “song with a whistle”, the musicians realized that they had made the right choice. Subsequently, "Robin" became the "Song of the Year".

7. Kino "Cuckoo"

• Released: 1991
• Author: Viktor Tsoi (music and lyrics)

Viktor Tsoi wrote "The Cuckoo" while relaxing in the village of Plienciems near Jurmala. This is one of the last songs he wrote. According to Kino guitarist Yuri Kasparyan, who was on vacation with the band leader, this is a very personal composition. “I remember how he did it. He spent the whole day sitting in the shed where the studio was, that is, completely separate. It was directly felt that something serious was happening, ”said Kasparyan.

Tsoi managed to record a demo version of the song, the arrangement and "finish recording" were made after his death. “Songs not yet written, how many - say, cuckoo, sing”, - “Cuckoo” was included in the “Black Album” and subsequently became the soundtrack for the films “House Under the Starry Sky” (1991), “Sisters” (2001) and “ Battle for Sevastopol" (2015). In the last picture, she was performed by Polina Gagarina.

"Kukushka" is one of the leaders in terms of the number of covers. It was covered by Olga Kormukhina, Zemfira * (recognized by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation as an individual - a foreign agent), "Bi-2".

8. Timber felling "I'll buy you a house" ("White Swan")

• Released: 1991
• Authors: Sergey Korzhukov (music), Mikhail Tanich (lyrics)

Mikhail Tanich was inspired to write the song by the previously mentioned film “The Cold Summer of 1953”, which tells about the events after the “Voroshilov” amnesty for prisoners initiated by Lavrenty Beria, when, one might say, half of the Gulag was released. In the main character of the film, Tanich saw his own features - we recall that he went through the Great Patriotic War at the front, received awards and wounds, at 19In 47, Mikhail Isaevich was arrested for “anti-Soviet agitation” (the reason was a denunciation of casually thrown words in a friendly company) and spent 6 years at a logging site in the Perm Territory.

The text of the future hit turned out to be brightly sad: “A white swan on the pond shakes a fallen star - on the pond where I will bring you.” It's like dreams that are not destined to come true, but that doesn't stop them from being dreams.

To write music, Mikhail Tanich turned to one of the famous composers, whose name he wished to keep secret, but the resulting song did not at all correspond to the original idea. The poet was rescued by a restaurant singer and aspiring composer Sergey Korzhukov, who was able to convey the right mood with his music. Korzhukov also became the first performer, and then the soloist of the new Lesopoval group, whose repertoire immediately included The White Swan.

9. Natasha Koroleva "Swallow"

• Released: 1992
• Author: Igor Nikolaev (music and lyrics)

According to Natasha Koroleva, "Swallow", like a number of other compositions, was written on a wave of jealousy. At a concert in Irkutsk, the young singer broke her leg and went home to Kyiv to improve her health. There she came to visit an old friend and part-time first childhood love. And during his visit, Igor Nikolaev, who had already begun to look after the Queen, appeared on the threshold of the apartment with a bouquet of roses.

But there is another, sadder story associated with this song. "Swallow" was the favorite composition of the eldest Natasha Vova - the eldest son of her own sister, at one time a well-known singer in Ukraine Rus (Irina Poryvai). The boy suffered from severe cerebral palsy. At the age of 11, he died, and the cherished lines are engraved on his gravestone: “Swallow, swallow, you say hello.”

In connection with these tragic events, this composition left the program of concerts by the Queen for a long time. And only in 2018, at her benefit performance in the Kremlin Palace, the singer again performed "Swallow", unable to hold back her tears. Only the powerful support of the audience helped her cope with emotions.

10. Olga Arefieva and the Ark "Dove"

• Released: 1993
• Author: Olga Arefieva (music and lyrics)

The composition "Dove", with all its seeming simplicity and beautiful flute melody in the losses, was decomposed into chords and gained popularity as a song that is sung with a guitar by the fire in a country camp or hike, which is very unusual for the group "Ark" as a whole and for her soloist Olga Arefieva. Moreover, the popularity of "Dove" in this format came much later than this song was released. " Goodbye baby! Sorry, but it is. You can't be in my cage. Don't be in my arms, baby. Fly away. It's a pity, but it's true ", - these lines about love and freedom were sung at friendly gatherings with a guitar, even by those who had no idea about the existence of the Ark group.

This is how the band's leader Olga Arefyeva recalled her performance with this song on Vasilyevsky Spusk in Moscow in 1996: “We played in front of such a huge audience for the first time in our lives. Again it turned out that they acted as peacekeepers - the crowd behaved noisily, pressed against the cordon. Our "Dove" brought a little peace, for a while the situation became calmer. We and "Time Machine" were the only ones who performed live. It was very difficult. I believe that we passed an important test - we played honestly, cleanly and balanced in an impossible environment.

11. Alena Sviridova "Pink Flamingo"

• Released: 1994
• Author: Alena Sviridova (music and lyrics)

"Pink Flamingo" is one of Alena Sviridova's most famous songs, included in the album of the same name. The author and performer herself recalls that she wrote a composition about leaving the ordinary for some ideal reality on the train from Moscow to Minsk, and the line “Pink flamingo is a child of sunset” served as the starting point for it. Moreover, Alena had never seen the birds themselves of the color of the evening dawn live at that time.

The song received a new round of popularity in 2021, when the Cream Soda group, with the participation of Sviridova, released a remake of Pink Flamingo.

12. Linda "The Crow"

• Released: 1996
• Author: Maxim Fadeev (music and lyrics)

"Crow" is a kind of hallmark of the singer Linda, which gave the name to her second studio album. In 1997, the song was recognized as the most rotated Russian-language composition on the radio station "Maximum", and also received the "Song of the Year" award, and the album itself entered the top three best-selling in Russia with the domestic repertoire.

According to Linda, for her this bird is a symbol of intelligence and insecurity, and the composition itself is about freedom from other people's opinions: “They tick like volcanoes sing, rivers stop, they don't drink water anymore. You are like them, I am like a crow.

Speaking of other people's opinions, a couple of years after the release of The Crow, Madonna's Frozen clip appeared in rotation. According to some sources, Linda saw elements of plagiarism in it and was even going to sue the world star, but she was dissuaded.

13. Andrey Gubin "Bird"

• Released: 1998
• Author: Andrey Gubin (music and lyrics)

Fly away, fly away like a bird. In the sky you are free to spin above the sun and stars, above, just know ... ” - to this lyrical song, which was included in the second album of the artist“ Only You ”, in the late 90s, newly-made couples circled in slow dances at school discos. Andrey Gubin himself (real name - Andrey Klementyev) calls this composition "the story of parting", written in "beautiful words".

He recalls that the song was difficult for him – it took about a year from the first notes to the final result. Having written several key phrases, including the chorus lines, the singer could not combine them into a common plot, to formulate what exactly he wanted to say. “And only after parting with Liza [Sautina - my first great love], I realized what it was written about. That is, this is the rare case when the subconscious, which dictated the words to me, was ahead of the events that had happened, ”he explained.

14. Alexander Marshal "Eagle"

• Released: 1998
• Author: Alexander Marshal (music and lyrics)

The song "Eagle" became the debut in the solo work of Alexander Marshal (Alexander Minkov) after the collapse of the Gorky Park group. “Don’t fly away, don’t fly away, circle around a little more and show me the way to your wonderful wondrous land,” and it was also the favorite composition of Marshal’s close friend, humorist, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, fourth governor of the Altai Territory Mikhail Evdokimov. Recall that he died in a car accident in August 2005.

A year later, at the stadium in the village of Verkh-Obskoy, Smolensk district of the Altai Territory, in Evdokimov's small homeland, a concert was held in memory of the departed fellow countryman. And during the performance of the song "Eagle" by the Marshal, the steppe bird soared in the sky directly above 30 thousand spectators. “It is his soul that soars,” was heard then from the stands.

15. Yana "Lonesome Dove"

• Released: 1998
• Author: Yana Budyanskaya (words and music)

The song "Lonely Dove" was written in the pop-rock style that was popular at that time. With her originality, she sunk into the hearts of the audience and gave the name to the debut album of the young singer Yana. “A lone dove on the ledge outside the window looks at me and knocks at the house. Maybe you will also come to me and understand everything, you will understand everything ”, - in the late 90s everyone knew these lines by heart, and the girls also carefully copied each other into thick songbooks.

The video for this song was filmed in an abandoned building. “It was scary, whoever was there will understand. They tied me with ropes, because it was quite possible to fly down. It is hard to imagine that the next day this house was completely destroyed by a hurricane. But I found out about it many years later, ”Yana recalled on her page on social networks.

16. Black Raven Hi-Fi

• Released: 1999
• Authors: Pavel Yesenin (music), Erast Chanturia (lyrics)

For the song "Black Raven" group "Hi-Fi" received the "Golden Gramophone". The group's fans also remember the video for this composition, which was filmed in an abandoned dilapidated store building in the center of Moscow. The video turned out to be black and white, gloomy, with post-apocalyptic views and corresponding to the style of the movie "The Matrix". By the way, the blockbuster with Keanu Reeves and the clip "Black Raven" came out in the same year, but work on the domestic video allegedly went on before Russian viewers learned about the problem of choosing the programmer Neo between the red and blue pills.

17. Ivanushki International "Bullfinches"

• Released: 1999
• Authors: Igor Matvienko (music), Konstantin Arsenev (lyrics)

The composition "Bullfinches" was included in the group's third album - "I'll scream about this all night" and became the "Song of the Year-1999". Like most other boy band hits, it's about love. About the all-conquering feeling and the video filmed for the song directed by Yevgeny Mitrofanov. According to the plot, the main character (Oleg Yakovlev) receives a summons, and he, leaving his beloved, together with his comrades (Kirill Andreev and Andrei Grigoriev-Apollonov) goes to serve. Everything ends with a happy ending. By the way, "Ivanushki" has another "bird" song, but of a later period - "Oriole".

18. Kristina Orbakaite "Migratory Bird"

• Released: 2003
• Authors: Tatyana Zaluzhnaya (music and lyrics)

The song "Migratory Bird" gave the name to the sixth album of Kristina Orbakaite. The first husband of the singer Vladimir Presnyakov Jr. took part in the filming of the video. The involvement of the ex-spouse in the creative process fueled the interest of the audience in the video and caused speculation about the revival of past feelings: “You didn’t understand me, I was joking - I was leaving for a minute” .

However, in one of the interviews, Kristina Orbakaite explained that, according to the authors' idea, she needed a partner, while the plot should have been based on a conflict. And then the performer proposed the candidacy of Vladimir Presnyakov, who, as if by magic, called her at the same moment. Presnyakov also included "Migratory Bird" in his repertoire.

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• Released: 2005
• Authors: Yulia Mikhalchik (music), Olsha Korotnikova (lyrics)

The song "White Swan" became Yulia Mikhalchik's calling card, which gained popularity during her participation in the TV project "Star Factory-3" - we recall that the girl took third place there. However, the audience remembered her not only for her strong voice and diverse performances, but also for the fact that at the end of the reality show, producer Alexander Shulgin, who oversaw the project, who had a marriage with Valeria and allegations of domestic violence behind him, proposed to the young ward. True, the wedding never happened, but that's another story.

"White Swan" was included in Mikhalchik's debut album "If Winter Comes. ..", and the video for it became the second in a row in the singer's creative biography: "Strong, brave, like a white swan, I stand on the wing..."

20. Valeria "Bird-separation"

• Released: 2010
• Authors: Oleg Shak (music), Alexander and Irina Vratareva (lyrics)

"Bird-separation, if you are my friend, I will return home with you - to the green taiga, where the lingonberries are in the meadow" , - for this song, which was released as a separate single in 2010, and then included in Valeria's 11th studio album "My Love is in Me", the singer was awarded the Golden Gramophone.

The composition was also remembered and loved by fans of domestic soap operas - it became one of the soundtracks for the serial melodrama about taiga love "Efrosinya".

How “Eat the Bird” changed Russian music

Beat and flow

Nikolai Redkin

28 August 2020 10:00

On August 28, the discography of the cult hip-hop group Ptitsu Yem finally appeared in streaming, almost completely, which interfered with sinuous rhythms and magical realism, stories about little people and the Russian poor. Afisha Daily asked Nikolai Redkin, editor of The Flow, to tell how the group's debut album, Ptitsu Sem', named Russian music.

Eat Bird had a short album history - the first one was released in 2010, and the last one in 2014 - but these three records built a whole universe with its own logic of development, which is still able to eat the brain of a curious and restless listener .

Their first songs were broadcast by word of mouth. In 2009, my friend Ilya Zherikov came to me and “sold” the group with a couple of sentences: “You know Bruno’s 4 Positions, right? They have a rap project and there's a song that says, "There's a scared teenager in my bed. "

At that time, I even managed to listen to the concert of "Bruno's Positions" in the basement club of Yekaterinburg. A black-and-white video sequence was projected on the screen, a rave was clanging, sometimes turning into noises and buzzing, behind the DJ, three people stood bent over in concentration, one of them launched magnifiers from the cassette player. Everything together looked ominous, but I wanted to dig into this ominousness - it both repelled and beckoned.

The names of the people were Alexander Sitnikov, Kolya Babak and Anton Klevtsov. "Bird" - a hooligan hip-hop project - was made by the first two. Later, I learned the story of the track about the "frightened teenager". In 2006, it was fashionable to organize online hip-hop battles, when rappers uploaded tracks to the Internet, and the judges then listened and decided who was better. The most famous battle took place on the hip-hop.ru forum, but there were also local ones that held small city forums. Sitnikov and Babak signed up for one of these under the pseudonyms Silk and Fierce.

And, following the theme of the round, which sounded like “The next morning we woke up in the same bed”, they composed the track “Chance”, according to the plot of which the gopnik enters the slot machine hall, tries to wring the guy’s phone, but both quickly find a common language, drink — and wake up together in the morning. The guy with the phone turns out to be a gay pick-up artist looking for love in places where young people from the suburbs usually look for quick money and adrenaline.

The decoration of the track was the final part with the sampled track of the Splin group, where Alexander Vasiliev's voice was cut so that he repeated: "Fight ... in the same bed with you ... fight."

The track "Chance" never appeared in streaming, but you can listen to it on YouTube

Gradually, "Bird" began to produce even more new material - and it began to be listened to on the wave of interest in "Bruno's 4 positions". In 2009, Artemy Troitsky began to promote the work of "Positions"; he published on his Voskhod label their album "A Very Tasty Man". Little by little, musical publications began to write about the group: from Afisha to Kommersant. The tracks “Eat the Bird” available on the Internet were still distributed through word of mouth. Even then, everyone who heard them recognized that this was more accessible and mass-produced material, but it was impossible to publish it on the label of the same Troitsky - copyright interfered: not only Splin was sampled in the songs, but also, for example, the group Kino ".

As a result, I'll Eat a Bird, the group's debut album, was released in August 2010 as an Internet release. At that time, “Bird” was often attributed to the muddy genre of “abstract hip-hop” (where all non-mainstream rap was indiscriminately dumped - “Waste Paper”, 2H Company, and so on), for me, the first album of “Birds” is a celebration of just hip - specific hop: instead of Samoyed whining, a stream of drive and intoxication fell upon you .

Joking aside, I can hardly name you another such rap album where the literary talents of the authors would not overshadow the drive and energy (and vice versa). Here are a couple more quotes. “A clear and even gym groove,” wrote journalist Alexander Gorbachev, who went to the first Moscow concert of “Birds”, he then called it “the funniest band in the country.” But Klevtsov finds the best epithets for the album: "buffoon" and "quick" (from the Ural "cheerful", "fussy", "restless").

Turn on the album right now - hear a piece of conversation recorded on the recorder: “Russian rap is ****** [nightmare], of course. I would not like, here, to be honored with the glory of a Russian rapper. Yekaterinburg rapper - ******* [good] would be."

Skits, i.e. interludes that precede (or, on the contrary, final) tracks, are an important part of the sound aesthetics of "Bird". By that time, Sitnikov had long been fond of recording people: in an interview with Openspace, he said that he started doing this thanks to his father, a geologist, who liked to record the songs of familiar bards on a microphone. Then Alexander began to record many people with whom his life brought him together: for example, an elderly woman for whom he worked as a nurse. “This is the very, very underground,” he said about those whom he recorded. So he accumulated a large library, part of which was used in the "Positions" catalog (I advise you to listen to the mix "Golden Voices from Brunov's Cauldron", collected for the most part from such an "underground"), this also influenced the songs of "Birds".

The skits on the album were "built" into the tracks, which made them grow up to six minutes - and these skits are a pleasure to listen to. Without the intro and outro to Trudovoe, the high-energy chant about hating work (where Tsoi is eminently sampled), half the thrill of listening is lost. Or turn on "Hello, Stranger" - the confession of a frustrated gay who suddenly decided to change his life. The track opens with the annoyingly looped phrase "Two eggs over your best friend ... two eggs over your best friend."

Sitnikov heard her in a children's song (they sang that a frying pan is your best friend) and decided to beat in this context - a punch worthy of "Red Mold" and "Monty Python" at the same time. I remember a quote from a review published in 2010 that "Bird" is a kind of rap that used to be copied onto cassettes and hidden from mom.

The hero of "Bird" felt most comfortable in the monologue format: almost all songs on the album begin with someone's story - and here you need to pay attention to how well, down to the smallest detail, the character of each character, his manner of speaking, intonation and etc.

It is still most convenient for me to write about these songs as a small literary form, and the authors themselves felt the same - in an interview in 2012, Sitnikov says that the songs "Birds" are "collections of humorous stories, and even under music" , and then cites as an example the comedies of the Coens, which "although black, but still humor-humor."

This approach falls into the tradition of Ural rap, which was then flourishing: in 2010, the Yekaterinburg AK-47s were already ready-made stars, and the Chelyabinsk Triagrutrika was preparing to take off. Ural rap was exactly that, hesitant, he denied the conventions of the genre, did not wear wide trousers and described provincial life without embellishment - with muddy everyday life and boyish torments. "Eat the Bird" was certainly a product of a different medium, but if you listen to their first album carefully, it becomes clear that this is just a slightly different look at the genre - as if through VR glasses. In the universe of the AK-47 group, there were slot machine halls, and purses, and phones on a chest strap, but, of course, there would be no place for a gay in it.

"Fag block of songs" (Babak's quote of that time) appeared on the album for the sake of outrageousness, but even here one can hear how warmly Sitnikov treats his heroes; these are detailed living characters, in which there was zero schematism. If the group went a little further and began to actively put pressure on this topic, it could easily have a new audience. I once watched a gay couple at the Birds concert, and Gorbachev recalled how, six months after the release of The Bird, he was approached by a journalist from the gay. ru website who wanted to interview the group.

There is a completely amazing video from Perm, where three people are dancing epileptically in the hall, and Lynch is quite reasonably mentioned in the comments. The logic is this: why sample good music if it's good anyway? The sample delicacy of the album and the subtexts broadcast by it deserve a separate playlist: Gradsky, Tsoi, the Dune group (on two tracks at once), and the main hit of the album, One Way Love, is a sad story of an office manager who is in love with his boss — was built on a piece of the song "Unrequited Love" by singer Mary.

Such a free approach to sampling caused different reactions: at the first performance of "The Bird" in Yekaterinburg, a drunken listener was eager to fill their faces for mocking Tsoi (but by the end of the set he calmed down and, as eyewitnesses recall, even imbued with creativity).

Lives "Birds" generally broke the mold (in this place it's time to remember the third member of the group, DJ Devil; he launched beats at the concert, and also acted as a filter, rejecting unsuccessful material). If you open the recording from the presentation "I'll Eat a Bird", you can hear that in the concert version of "Trudovoe" Tsoi's voice is cut so as to repeat the word "blue" over and over again (I am silent about the fact that half of the songs are performed to other instrumentals, but at concerts “Birds” often practiced this - playing songs “like on a record” was too boring for the participants).

A few years after the release of the album, Sitnikov criticized it for being clumsy (I suspect that then the group simply did not have the experience of mixing voices), - now this lo-fi is listened to as an element of production made by people who are well-heard and musically savvy. You can at least hear the passion of its authors for dub - listen to how much echo is walking in the drums, how the bottoms are tuned up, and it’s not in vain that Bruno’s 4 Positions invented the “toxic dub” style for themselves at that time. Home recordings and obscenely cut snippets of hits from the Retro FM repertoire also fit here - in an interview in the early 2010s, Sitnikov often recalls The Orb, who like to litter their long tracks with similar psychedelic collages.

It is also significant that, answering a question about his favorite rap groups in an interview with Lookatme, he immediately names Kunteynir, a hooligan rap group of Pasha Technik, who was not yet known to the general public, known, among other things, for their deliberately lo-fi approach to recording.

On the example of the album "I'll Eat a Bird", you can write textbook school essays about a little man.

Their hero, from a boy who gets bullied at a summer camp to a screwed-up clerk who suddenly finds himself at an orgy, is cornered and rejected by the world, but does not yet understand what to do. In the next albums, he will find ways to solve his problems - most often quite brutal ones - and then it will not be so fun from the built dramaturgy, although these songs will not become less inventive and will not lose their charm. Sitnikov felt this already when he was working on the second album "Birds" "Let's forget about morality" (2012). When asked what his hero will be like, he answers that he "grew up".

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