POLYUSHKA POLYE (SONG OF THE PLAINS)
Created on 17/03/2009Latest update on 10/04/2024
Artist: Nikandr Khanaev
Author: Lev Knipper/Victor Gusev
Label: USSR
Year: 1934
Part of Knipper's Symphony N°4 in D Major, Opus 41 - Poem of the Komsomol Fighters (that's the union of the Communist Youth). Lyrics (by Gusev) dedicated to Field Marshall Kliment Voroshilov. Russian revolutionary song (1917-1922). First used by the white army exclusively, later also by the red one. This war song served both sides of the frontline (see also: Dixie and Lili Marleen).
Covers:
- 1937:
Red Army Choir [recorded in Paris]
- 1942:
Paul Robeson [as Song Of The Plains]
- 1945:
Ted Heath [as Cossack Patrol]
- 1945:
Ramblers [idem]
- 1946:
Glenn Miller Orch. [led by Tex Beneke; as The Red Cavalry Song, arranged by Morton Gould]
- 1956:
- 1960:
Eddie Calvert [as Cossack Patrol]
- 1961:
Krew Kats [first rock arrangement as Samovar]
- 1961:
Spotnicks [as The Rocket Man]
- 1962:
Cliffters [Danish as Riding Cossack]
- 1963:
- 1964:
- 1964:
Jumping Jewels [as Cossack Melodies]
- 1966:
Tielman Brothers [as Du Gehst voruber]
- 1972:
- 1973:
Axis [intro Goldwings]
- 1982:
- 1984:
Waterboys [in Red Army Blues on A Pagan Place]
- 1993:
