"Harlequin" - a song by the Bulgarian author Emil Dimitrov to the lyrics of Boris Barkas . There is an entry from the USSR State Television and Radio Committee of 1964 with its performance by the author in Bulgarian. Approximately 11 years later, the song appeared in the repertoire of Alla Pugacheva , in 1975. Then the song was recorded in the studio and released on the first solo minion of the singer “ Harlequin ”. With this song, Alla Pugacheva was awarded the Grand Prix at the International Song Contest “ Golden Orpheus ” in Bulgaria in 1975 .
| Harlequin | ||||
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| Executor | Alla Pugacheva | |||
| Album | Harlequin (minion) | |||
| Date of issue | 1975 | |||
| Record date | 1975 | |||
| Genre | Pop music | |||
| Song language | Russian | |||
| Duration | Half past four | |||
| Label | Melody | |||
| Author | Emil Dimitrov / Boris Barkas | |||
| The track list of the album " Harlequin (minion) " | ||||
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 | Alla Borisovna Pugacheva. |
Content
About song
Music composer: Dimitrov Emil ,
Lyrics author: Boris Barkas [1] .
It was performed during the period of work in the VIA “Merry Fellows” under the direction of Pavel Slobodkin (1974-1976) from May 1975 and on the solo performances of the singer all subsequent years until 1983.
Studio record: 1975
On the second album of the singer “ Harlequin and Others ”, the song on the Side 1 (C60-11975) goes at number 5.
On the minion of the same name
| Side 1 (G62—04927) | |||||||||
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| No | Title | The words | Music | Duration | |||||
| one. | "Harlequin" | Boris Barkas | Emil Dimitrov Pavel Slobodkin (processing) | Half past four | |||||
| Half past four | |||||||||
The meaning of the song in the works
As A. Belyakov noted, the same thing happened with “ Million Scarlet Roses ” as with the song “ Harlequin ” in 1975: ... the song performed by Pugacheva ... became a kind of third “calling card” of the singer after “ Harlequin ” and " All can kings, " - songs that brought her nationwide fame [2] .
The song "Harlequin" was a turning point in the creative fate of the singer - it was with her that Alla Pugacheva was awarded the Grand Prix at the international song contest " Golden Orpheus " in Bulgaria in 1975 . The victory in the competition (which was shown to the Soviet Central Television ) brought Pugacheva not only widespread All-Union fame, but also the first international success [3] [4] - this victory made her popular in the USSR and beyond. In the same year, the minion came out, where it was first introduced as the only performer. Alla Pugacheva started her solo career with “Harlequin”: before that, she worked as a vocalist of various musical groups.
In Bulgaria, there was a single with a recording of a concert performance of the song , and a little later in the GDR a recording of the song “Harlequin” in German was released (see Harlekino (single) ).
Record Members
| Main vocals : | Alla Pugacheva | one |
| Backing vocals : | Vocal-instrumental ensemble “ Jolly Fellows ”, director Pavel Slobodkin | one |
| Accompaniment : | Vocal-instrumental ensemble “Jolly Fellows”, director Pavel Slobodkin | one |
| Arrangement : | Valery Durandin | one |
Interesting Facts
- In the Bulgarian version of the text, it was a wooden doll, burning from the flame of his heart [5] [6] .
See also
- Harlequin
- Harlequin (minion)
Notes
- ↑ Lyrics of the song (words) Alla Pugacheva - “Harlequin”
- ↑ Belyakov A.O. Alla Pugacheva. - M .: Young Guard, 2009. - (ZhZL: Biography continues). - ISBN 978-5-235-03230-9 .
- ↑ N. Zavadskaya. Meeting with the "Golden Orpheus". Pages of the festival diary . Magazine "Musical life" (1975). Circulation date October 10, 2012. Archived October 17, 2012.
- ↑ I. Titov. “Golden Orpheus” by Alla Pugacheva . The newspaper " Soviet Culture " № 48 (4848) (June 14, 1975). - The very first message in the Soviet press about Pugacheva's victory at the Golden Orpheus festival. Circulation date October 10, 2012. Archived October 17, 2012.
- ↑ The melodramatic story of the wooden doll Arlecchino, which burned with love for the ballerina.
- ↑ Lyrics of Emil Dimitrov - Arlekino: in Bulgarian and in Russian.