This is the song about colors

To compose the music for the film, Pyryev turned to composer Isaac Dunayevsky and poet Mikhail Isakovsky. The latter never considered himself a songwriter, although earlier many of his poems, set to music, went to the people. Moreover, he never wrote "to order" for the cinema. However, he nevertheless gave his consent, and the work began to boil. As a result, all five songs involved in the film were written by Isakovsky (although some, but not about viburnum, in collaboration with the poet Mikhail Volpin). And the composition “Oh, the viburnum is blooming” rightfully won popular love. nine0003

2. Song "Lilies of the valley"

• First performer: Gelena Velikanova
• Year of release: 1958
• Authors: Oscar Feltsman (music), Olga Kleiner (lyrics)

According to the composer's memoirs, he wrote a song based on Feltsman's memoirs poems by the poetess Olga Kleiner (Fadeeva) literally in 15 minutes, gave it to the performer Gelena Velikanova and went to rest in the south, two weeks later received a letter from Velikanova stating that "Lilies of the valley" is now being sung by all of Moscow.

However, despite the huge popularity, the song soon fell under the rink of the Soviet worldview. On the “order” of the Central Committee of the CPSU, creative unions were looking for works that promote vulgarity, and the most “successful” example turned out to be “guilty” of their ingenuity “Lilies of the Valley” with their “small volume”. Even the term “lily of the valley literature” appeared, which supposedly conveyed an unjustifiably light attitude to life, an unwillingness to look deep into. It got to the point that in the composition they even saw attempts to morally corrupt the youth and anti-Soviet sentiments. nine0003

The persecution of the song by the authorities lasted for more than 20 years - while ordinary people adored these lines: “Today you brought me not a bouquet of lush roses, not tulips and lilies . ..”

Over the years “Lilies of the Valley "performed by Nina Dorda, Lyudmila Senchina, Elena Ionova, Yulia Ziganshina, Ekaterina Guseva and others.

3. Anna German "When the Gardens Bloomed"

• Released: 1977
• Authors: Vladimir Shainsky (music), Mikhail Ryabinin (lyrics)

“The gardens bloom once a year. Spring of love is expected once" - for the first time the song was performed at the final concert of the music festival "Song of the Year" in 1977. Anna Herman insisted that the composition must be performed live, and became the only one who worked on stage without a soundtrack. According to the memoirs of the composer Vladimir Shainsky, the audience greeted the song with a frantic ovation and asked to perform an encore. Usually, at concerts of a detailed kind, sharpened for television, the timing is calculated by the minute, and such liberties were not allowed. But in this case, an exception was made - the enthusiasm of the audience was so strong. nine0003

It is interesting that before Herman nobody wanted to take the song "When the Gardens Bloom" into their repertoire - probably because of the naive and too "pop" (although there was no such word then) text. However, the performer managed to present the story of the abandoned lyrical heroine in such a way that she became a real hit. Shainsky himself, having heard the song performed by Herman for the first time, exclaimed: “I didn’t even imagine that it could be sung like that!”

In the 90s "When the gardens were blooming" Lada Dance took to her repertoire. Her concerts are still not complete without this imperishable. nine0003

4. Mikhail Boyarsky "City Flowers"

• Released: 1981
• Authors: Maxim Dunaevsky (music), Leonid Derbenev (poetry)

The song "City Flowers" performed by Mikhail Boyarsky was first performed in the Soviet musical comedy "Where will he go" directed by Georgy Yungvald-Khilkevich. Subsequently, in 1983, Boyarsky released an album of the same name.

According to the memoirs of the composer Mikhail Dunayevsky, the poet Derbenev came to him with a single line ("city flowers, city flowers") and in full confidence that this was a future hit. Dunayevsky wrote the music, keeping only this phrase in his head, and only then Derbenev composed poems that fit the resulting melody. nine0003

However, the composer was not completely satisfied with the result - he thought that the song turned out to be too "tavern". In part, he was right - they really liked to perform this composition in restaurants: “City flowers, city flowers, you have captured my heart forever!”

• Released: 1982
• Authors: Raymond Pauls (music), Andrey Voznesensky (lyrics)

83 years on the air of the New Year's TV show "Attraction", which was filmed at the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow. According to the plan, the prima donna was supposed to perform most of the composition on a swing swinging in the arena, the role of which was played by a circus trapeze. And at one fine (actually terrible) moment for the singer, the trapeze, contrary to plans, soared to a 20-meter height - and despite the fact that Pugacheva, of course, did not use any insurance. Not a single muscle trembled on the face of the star - she played her role to the end, only later confessing to her partner in the number - the illusionist Igor Kio, that the only thing she is afraid of in life is heights. nine0003

It should be noted that the plot of the song is based on the legend of the Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani, who was in love with the French actress Margarita de Sevres, and the Primadonna herself, to put it mildly, did not consider this composition among her favorites. “I rested my horn on the Million Roses. How I didn't love her! The more I didn’t love her, the more popular she became, ”recalled Alla Borisovna.

6. Lyudmila Senchina "Wildflowers"

• Release year: 1983
• Authors: Raymond Pauls (music), Andrey Kovalev

"Don't give me purchased flowers - gather me a bouquet of the field, so that I believe, so that you feel - these are our flowers, only our flowers" , - this song became one of the visiting cards of the "Cinderella of the Soviet stage" Lyudmila Senchina. She first performed it with her "crystal voice" at Blue Light in 1983.

The second wave of popularity overtook the song in 2018 - however, on a very tragic occasion: the performer died of cancer. Those whose youth fell at the peak of Senchina's creativity returned to their favorite compositions, including "Field Flowers", and the recording of this song on the net was again full of enthusiastic comments. nine0003

7. Sofia Rotaru and Jaak Yoala "Lavender"

• Released: 1985
• Authors: Vladimir Matetsky (music), Mikhail Shabrov (lyrics)

The song was commissioned by the Central Television of the USSR. Composer Vladimir Matetsky composed a measured, lyrical melody and offered to write a text about lavender to the poet Mikhail Shabrov. All that the latter knew about lavender was that there is such a remedy for moths, and he got into the encyclopedia, finding out that "mountain lavender" is such a medicinal flower. So the phrase “mountain lavender” began to spin in his head, but things did not go beyond this for a long time. nine0003

The situation was saved by Valentin Kataev's Youthful Romance, which once fell under the arm of Shabrov. The book contains the words: "Blue lavender flowers run from the mountains to the sea." They inspired the poet to the line "Our meetings with you are blue flowers." And then everything around her spun.

By the way, the idea that this composition should be performed by the duet of Sofia Rotaru and Jaak Yoala belongs to Alla Dmitrieva, editor of the Song of the Year festival, to whom the authors showed the newly written song. It was first performed on the air of the New Year's "Spark" 1985-1986 years. Subsequently, Philip Kirkorov and Nikolai Baskov became Rotaru's partners in composition.

8. Tender May "White Roses"

• Released: 1987
• Author: Sergey Kuznetsov

The song "White Roses" was written in December 1986 by Sergei Kuznetsov immediately after the first performance of the group "Tender May". “White roses, white roses are defenseless thorns. What did the snow and frost do to you, the ice of the blue shop windows? - these and other lines were born literally in a matter of minutes. nine0003

Recall that the musical group "Tender May", whose soloist was 13-year-old Yura Shatunov, was created in the Orenburg boarding school from among the students, and Kuznetsov himself was the leader of the circle. The guys recorded the song "White Roses" on a regular audio cassette, duplicated it and gave it to the judgment of the inhabitants of Orenburg. In this form, in 1988, she accidentally got through third parties to producer-manager Andrei Razin, who a few weeks later moved Tender May from Orenburg to the capital and began to “sculpt” stars out of boys. nine0003

The video for the song was filmed at the end of 1988, and its premiere on television took place in January 1989 in the Morning Post program. Both the composition and the video were a resounding success, and Yura Shatunov became a truly youth idol. On June 23, 2022, Yuri Shatunov passed away. He was 48 years old.

9. Merry Fellows "Pink Roses"

• Released: 1989
• Authors: Pavel Slobodkin (music), Natalya Plyatskovskaya (lyrics)

89" and still has not sunk into the river of oblivion: it is no-no - and even included on retro radio stations. According to some sources, the heroine of the composition had a real prototype, familiar to the poetess Plyatskovskaya, but what kind of girl she was and how her fate turned out - history is silent.

“Svetka Sokolova has a birthday – she is 30 today. I bring congratulations and a beautiful pink bouquet as a gift ", - the first to sing these lines was Alexei Glyzin, a former soloist of the VIA" Merry Fellows ". However, he soon went on a solo voyage, and the song beloved by the audience was “inherited” by Alexander Dobrynin, who replaced him in the group. nine0003

10. Natasha Koroleva "Yellow Tulips"

• Released: 1990
• Authors: Igor Nikolaev (music, lyrics) and Sergei Sigarev (lyrics)

rather experienced performer Natasha Koroleva. Returning in 1989 from the United States, where the 16-year-old singer toured as the lead soloist of the children's rock opera "Child of the World", Natasha preferred the opportunity to audition for the then-famous composer Igor Nikolaev to the offer to get an education in the States. The singer refutes the popular belief that the composition was written specifically for her: “I understand that it was already written by Igor, since several girls were eyeing him, including me. And he somehow distributed it to everyone at once by the song. So I got a song about yellow tulips,” she recalls. nine0003

Of all the contenders for cooperation with him, Nikolaev chose Koroleva, and this was a turning point in her fate - both creative and personal. Thanks to the Yellow Tulips, the performer became famous throughout the country and made it to the final of the Song of the Year festival.

11. Song "Wedding Flowers"

• Released: 1991
• First performers: Rose sisters
• Authors: Igor Krutoy (music), Igor Nikolaev (lyrics)

The premiere of the song "Wedding Flowers" took place on the "Song of the Year-1991" - the composition was performed by the bright and charismatic Rose sisters. The twins Dina and Ella were already famous among Russian emigrants in the United States, where they came from, and they still had to gain popularity among the Russian public. The sisters-performers began to work together with the creative tandem of Igor Krutoy and Igor Nikolaev, and the song in question was one of the fruits of this cooperation.

However, some time later, Igor Krutoy gave the composition to Irina Allegrova, who in the 90s was just starting her solo career. In the characteristic manner of the singer's performance - with a "signature" hoarseness in her voice - and in a new arrangement, the song acquired fresh shades of mood, was included in the album "I'll part the clouds with my hands" (1996) and was remembered by the listeners: "Wedding flowers were whiter than snow. You smiled at me - it was like in a dream.

12. Zemfira "Daisies"

• Released: 1999
• Author: Zemfira Ramazanova

The somewhat frivolous song "Daisies" was included in Zemfira's debut album "Zemfira". The phrase “Hello, daisies!” that sounds like a refrain in it! - in fact, a playful remark that Zemfira Ramazanova, who at that time worked at the Europa Plus radio station in Ufa, greeted her colleagues. And the image of a “girl with a player” was quite suitable for the performer herself.

Interestingly, the demo-version of the song used the keyboard part, which was performed by Zemfira herself. And the drum parts, which also remained in the final version of the composition, echo one of the songs of the famous British band The Chemical Brothers. nine0003

13. Dances minus "Flowers"

• Released: 2000
• Author: Vyacheslav Petkun