There are songs that touch the deep strings of the human soul. It is they who are remembered and sung, they become part of the life of the people. Dreams and memories are associated with them.
When we hear familiar melodies, native images arise before our eyes, they hurt feelings.
In the USSR there were songs that accompanied people on vacation and work, became for people sources of joy, warmth.
Many of them were written by the composer Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedym. His father was a simple peasant, Pavel Solovyov, who moved to St. Petersburg and worked as a janitor. The future composer was born in this city.
From childhood, he was drawn to music. His work was not forgotten, because truly folk songs. Himself from the people, he was well able to express the feelings and thoughts of people.
We present you the most famous songs of Solovyov-Sedogo, written about love and wartime.
10. Our city
Song "Our town"Was written in 1945 to the words of Alexei Fatyanov. Chorus was once the call sign of the Leningrad Radio.
Created in the year when our country triumphed in World War II. She talks about Leningrad, a beautiful spring city that enjoys peace and tranquility after the hard days of the war.
9. For a long time we were not at home
The song was born in May 1945. The concert team went to the sailors and fighters. The brigade included the poet Alexei Fatyanov and composer Soloviev-Sedoy.
On the road, on the bus, they composed the song “We haven't been home for a long time". The poet improvised, composing poetry, and he worked on the melody of the song, purring it under his breath. All this happened for several hours, so as not to forget the text or music, because it was not possible to record all this.
Gradually, the other members of the concert team began to help them: the accordionist picked up the music, and the singer Ephraim Flax began to sing it.
For the composer, his work became one of the last songs of the war years.
8. Where are you now, fellow soldiers
The composer took poetry by Alexei Fatyanov and wrote a song in 1947. He labored on the Return of the Soldier suite. In this cycle "Where are you now, fellow soldiers"Was the fifth in a row, but it turned out to be pivotal.
The idea came to the composer after he visited one of the construction projects in Siberia, where he met with front-line soldiers. On the way to Leningrad, a phrase constantly circulated in his head, which later became the name of the song; under it, he began to compose a melody. He played it to the poet, he wrote poetry. The composer was able to make a song out of them.
She was entrusted with singing to Ephraim Flax. He called her monotonous and dreary, as if the soldier was not happy to return home. He asked to make the second half of the verse so that it was more joyful. They tried, and it worked out.
7. Migratory birds
In 1945, director Semyon Tymoshenko made a musical film about frontline friends. All of them are pilots who decided not to fall in love with girls until the war ends.
But a meeting with the pilots of the female squadron and with the journalist from Pioneer Truth, Valery Petrova, is changing their lives.
The director was already known as the author of the paintings “Three Comrades” and “Goalkeeper”. And he really wanted the people to pick up and sing the songs from this film, as well as from the previous ones.
About this he told Solovyov-Sedov. He tried to live up to his expectations. Together with A. Fatyanov, he wrote the song “Migratory birds"Which many will recognize by the first line of the chorus"Because, because we are pilots».
6. In the sunny meadow
Alexey Fatyanov and Vasily Pavlovich met in 1942. The poet immediately liked Solovyov-Sedov.
The very next day, he brought him a poem that fascinated him. It was fresh, touching, it seemed to emanate the aroma of fresh hay, wildflowers and lilacs. But Soviet censorship did not like it.
Bloody battles were fought on the fronts, the situation was difficult, and these verses seemed too frivolous. But still, the composer decided to write a song “In the sunny meadow", Which appeared in 1943.
5. Evening on the roadstead
Song " Evening on the roadstead"Appeared in 1941. It was created on the verses of Alexander Churkin. The song was born in the month of August, before the blockade in Leningrad.
The composer recalled how this happened. He worked in the Leningrad port. It was an unforgettable evening. A ship stood nearby, music and singing came from it.
Vasily Pavlovich and others finished the work and listened to the singing of the sailors. And he decided to write a song. People who were about to go to battle enjoyed these short hours of rest.
Alexander Churkin was in the same port. He saw that Solovyov-Sedoy was thinking. On the way home, he told him that he had to write a song about this wonderful evening and told the poet its size.
The next day, Churkin threw 3 verses and handed them to the composer. After 3 days, they were already working on the song, Vasily Pavlovich invented the beginning of its refrain himself. He later recalled that he was inspired by thoughts about the sailors protecting the approaches to their city, he wanted to express their feelings and mood.
4. If the guys of the whole Earth
In 1957, the song "If the guys of the whole Earth". Words to her were written by E. Dolmatovsky.
For many, it became a reflection of the story that was told that year in the French film “If the guys of the whole world” had been purchased in 1956 and voiced by 1957. It tells how people from different countries come together to save the crew of one vessel.
3. It's time to go
It was written by the composer and poet Solomon Fogelson for the painting “Heavenly Quiet”.
This song "It's time to go"- Vogelson’s first luck. Together with Solovyov-Sedym, they collaborated for 30 years, wrote 48 songs.
But the trio of film actors beat the song “It’s time to go the road” so well and sang it so well that it still lives and does not age.
2. Nightingales
Song "Nightingales"Appeared in 1944, the author of the poems is Alexei Fatyanov. A creative duet met in the capital. Vasily Pavlovich then worked on the operetta and stayed at the hotel. Alex distinguished himself at the front and was released on vacation as a reward; he settled there.
At the front, the poet wrote 2 songs, one of which is Nightingales. Meeting with a friend, he read them, and the composer immediately sat down at the piano and wrote music to them.
Fatyanov said that once at the front, they, the soldiers, were lying in a grove after the battle. And suddenly, after the roar of enemy aircraft, they heard the nightingale singing, who sang in all his throat, despite the war.
1. Moscow Nights
In 1955, the documentary "In the days of the sports day" was shot. To make it more interesting, they decided to include a lyrical song in it.
The poet Mikhail Matusovsky and Vasily Pavlovich were instructed to write it. They recall that that day they did not want to work at all: summer, heat, they rested in the country. But both needed money.
Then the composer took out a melody written 2 years ago. She seemed to him unsuccessful. The poet scribbled words to her. So the song “Leningrad evenings” appeared. But the documentary told about the suburbs, so the words in the verses decided to change, were born "Moscow Nights».
The song was criticized, the words called boring, the music was expressionless. The poet and composer decided that this was their failure. But they still took her, because there was no time to write another.
The documentary where she sounded was not popular. But when the song was heard on the radio, letters began to come asking to put it on it.
For Solovyov-Sedoy was a surprise when he was awarded for a work that he considered unsuccessful.