This is the one thing I miss the most from Radio Moscow.....regardless of the politics, this was one swinging tune.
Moscow Nights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0aeNLHB54
In 1990, England of course lost to zee Germans in the semi-finals of the World Cup, may have been a shootout, I forget but there were riots in England when that happened when I guess there was still plenty of hooliganism and the BBC reported it, I can remember listening to it thinking “Oh Wow.” I don’t know where else I would have found out about it though I’m sure newspapers actually covered it.
The BBC back then, not now of course but back then had a reputation for being a fairly unbiased neutral objective reporting organization. They were probably all of that except for perhaps some of their own affairs, Northern Ireland and the like.
Nowadays, I think they’ve recently gotten better but still: http://biasedbbc.org/
That said, they remain a bit of a favorite nonetheless, football/soccer coverage is still good.
I hope England can be saved from these immigration woes they seem to have.
Podmoskovnye vechera. Another rendition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8LjuCMETO8
Here's what the Voice of America was using for an interval signal back in that day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPGOmWnaaMI
That was back when even Democrat Americans were patriots.
VOA later changed its interlude to Yankee Doodle. Here is an over-the-air recording: