[simpson96]

music *ping*

[fwdude]

Those were the days of crotch-high skirts.

[elcid1970]

Her song came out days after the Soviet army invaded Czechoslovakia and crushed the “Prague Spring” of Alexander Dubcek. It was an eerie coincidence.

[left that other site]

Darogi Dalneyu

Tune totally lifted from a Russian Song.

I used to sing it in both Russian and English to the delight of elderly Russians. :-)

[BlueStateRightist]

Her version produced by Paul McCartney.

[exDemMom]

Beautiful song, translated but still sounding so Russian!

[equaviator]

Good ol’ Mary Hopkiins. She was what they used to call a “songbird”.

[katana]

Wondering how someone in her twenties back in the mid-sixties, so adorable with such classic Welsh Celtic features, would age? Wonderfully as it turned out.

[Hot Tabasco]

Thanks to Youtube, there are finally faces attached to all the old songs I use to hear. Thanks to Sirius radio too, they have every era of songs than you can choose from.

[Fiji Hill]

The original version, from the Soviet Union:

Dorogoi Dlinnoyu (by the long road)--Alexander Vertinskii (1926)

[Capt. Tom]

Thanks for posting this.

I like Mary Hopkin's version better than the Russian version because all of us aging English speakers can relate better to her version.

If you are a Russian, that original Russian version should have a lot of meaning and be more popular with them. -Tom

[mumblypeg]

Wow, what a memory. My Russian teacher played this song for the class one day, and he did the Cossack dance for us.
He was a gregarious old Russky, bald and rather fat. His face turned so red and his eyes bugged out so much as he squatted and kicked, I thought he was gonna keel over and die.
Thanks for posting.