Rom Draculas street video tunes

Quadropenta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JtbRMoZu6U

Many videos of them on Youtube. I've been entertained :^)

Does anyone recognize the tunes at the beginning and at 1:16?

What genre would you call them, and what groups play these styles?

Thanks. I like the music and can imagine 1940s jam sessions with

a similar mix & sound. Pretty amazing really. Of course I want to hear a lead

guitarist... --Joel

billyshakes

The first few seconds of the clip are finishing the tune "Moscow Nights", a traditional Russian tune. Not sure about 1:16.

Quadropenta

Thanks Billyshakes

AndyW

[ “Moscow Nights” is in the Djangofakebook pdf as “Midnight in Moscow” ]

billyshakes

https://djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/108063#Comment_108063

Yup. Kenny Ball recorded the song under that name, and probably made it famous to Western ears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6IGViAhcb4

Willie

Composed by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Nights

German Wikipedia mentions dutch band Jan Burgers And His New Orleans syncopators who recorded 1960:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moskauer_N%C3%A4chte

Buco

Interesting choices because vechera is really evening, and night is noch or however you'd approximate cyrillic in latin

billyshakes

https://djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/108070#Comment_108070

I also understand that "Podmoscovnie" means "the area around Moscow" or "the suburbs of Moscow" or a sentiment to that effect (never got that far in learning Russian). Translation, like antiquing guitars, is more an art than a science.

AndyW

Joel asked what "genre" they are- I could say close to Gypsy Jazz, but they're really missing a guitar pompe-ing a straight four in the bar. I like them a lot, though.