MUSIC CALENDAR 27 Aug 1924-born Soviet singer Nina Dorda

It is impossible not to remember this star of Soviet pop since the beginning of stagnation. It was on TV! At that time, when little was shown at all and it was difficult to see something, and not everyone was so rich to have a TV ( in my childhood, only two or three families on the whole street had TVs and children tried to be friends with such "cool" children to be invited to watch a cartoon...) So all the artists shown on TV, automatically became stars. And who was shown when all the programs were live? Of Muscovites of Leningrad – who was always at hand.

Nina Dorda was born in Moscow, survived the war in Saratov, in 1945 returned to Moscow and immediately spun her career! In Moscow it became popular, because in the evenings she sang in the restaurant "Moscow" (it is derived Aksenov "Moscow Saga" under the name Nina Proud), then a tour around the Union with the orchestra of Eddie Rozner. Participation in festive concerts and TV shows-such as "Blue light" - the main entertainment program of the Soviet period-made it super popular. But, alas, too subtle genre, but a song about love then the career was not done and the title of "honored Russia" she got fifteen years after he left the stage – IV 1995 (see, someone strong remembered, or colleagues warning in advance) but it was infinitely late. The title you need and helps in a period of creative activity – makes you reckon and choose wyrazenia in critical articles and salary increases. And this is like a bouquet on a coffin.

All of her work by today's standards (and the time too – I remember that) – crappy pop music for the common people, composed by Soviet lyricists and composers who have passed a fierce ideological selection, and do not leave anything in memory or in the shower, though, and brightened the leisure. Please understand – I'm not talking about Dorda specifically-that she did what she could and what she was allowed to do, and tried to do it well. I am talking primarily about myself – about my perception of that time and myself in it.

Two songs from her repertoire, I want to mention – "lilies" and "Crying girl in the taxophone".

The first song – very good song, which became terribly popular, and I like still – there is something in her sincere, typically sansonno-pub... unfortunately – that's what the song boss is not pleased and all – composer, lyricist, performer – got it in the neck for lack of ideas... But the song did not become less popular, and two singer – Nina Dorda and Gelena Velikanova – proudly considered itself the first performers of this song. I don't think it matters at all.

The second song on the good poems of Andrei Voznesensky, and not make it a song would be just stupid. The song was done, Nina sang it – and silence. It turned out to be completely uninteresting to anyone even I don't remember (and it was! And there is video with TV!) Most likely, the blame colorless music and a completely standard version, no wonder it got lost in the sea of those songs about unrequited love. It was picked up by Zhenya aspen, cleaned, corrected any melody – and the thing began to play with colors, like Aladdin's lamp! Yes, so that it now knows absolutely all the adult population of the country…

Nina Dorda-Crying girl in the taxothone