a song quoted in Moscow on the Hudson

[Slava Paperno]

That's it--many thanks, Rob! Remarkable... Slava

At 09:49 PM 12/1/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Slava Paperno wrote:
>
>>Could someone tell me the title/composer of the song that's used in Moscow on the Hudson when the tour bus stops outside Bloomingsdale?
>>
>>Na stadiony / Nesut znamenq / Gornisty veselo trubyat...Pod nashimi sportivnymi znamenami... / Pod nashimi znamenami sovetskaya shagaet molodezh'
>>
>
>      This is reminiscent of "Pod nashimi znamenami" (words by Iakov
>Khelemskii, music by Matvei Blanter):
>            Nad stadionami
>            Tsvetut znamena.
>            Vykhodit molodost' i sila na torzhestvennyi parad.
>            Vo slavu iunykh
>            Na vsekh tribunakh
>            Gremiat privetstviia i vympely pariat.
>
>            Pripev:  Pod nashimi sportivnymi znamenami
>                        Shagaem, solntsem i vetrami zakalennye.
>                        [...]
>                        Pod nashimi znamenami
>                        Sportivnaia shagaet molodezh'!
>
>There are two additional stanzas, but no _gornisty_.  There apparently
>were variants of the text, however.  The above version is from a 1962
>songbook.  In a 1964 collection of Blanter's songs the last line of the
>refrain is "Sovetskaia [not: Sportivnaia] shagaet molodezh'!"
>
>Bob Rothstein

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