Those were the days (Russian song originally)

[RandomandBizarre]

Only one word: BEAUTIFUL

[AlainProviste55]

Excellent playing dearest friends...we love this style in Flanders Belgium!

*******

Best wishes,

Alain Proviste

[FinallyunderstandU]

thank you.. beautiful job you have done with this 5*****

Celese AnnA Batcat

((=^.^=))

[AlainProviste55]

@FinallyunderstandU Thanks for sharing...we love this song...a bit gipsy style.

Btw...this song has such a great poetry.

Alain

[FinallyunderstandU]

@AlainProviste55 a company in the USA stole this enchanted love song and lyrics and now they 'legally' own it just like Miss L is trying to do with Sir Mick ahhh my heart <3

goodnight Alain and thank you videomaker for this lovely 5***** video you have made

[AlainProviste55]

@FinallyunderstandU Money and some rich people make the rules in the world...

The new Che Guevarra must stand up...in every country!

[FinallyunderstandU]

@AlainProviste55 I used to stand up and play across the street from Che's bar.. always happy people under the influence of Che .. we must be careful now and stand with a smile always.. in every country !!!!

[AlainProviste55]

@FinallyunderstandU We are flower powers...we protest on a peacefull way...with respect for all people and life....:=))

[FinallyunderstandU]

@AlainProviste55 I protest and fight those who disrespect me with tears and words

and my dragon's firebreath... goodnight, Alain ((=:Peace

[AlainProviste55]

@FinallyunderstandU Btw...now this song is in my favorits...this would sound very nice played with an accordion!!!

You are my muse...:=))

[FinallyunderstandU]

@AlainProviste55 a muse descended from prussia which is near Russia, yes ??

I love it too (=:

[AlainProviste55]

@FinallyunderstandU Wow...you have certainly Gipsy genes...

You feel the music and poetry!

[MrAlexeyStr]

Александр Вертинский Дорогой длинной

[MrAlexeyStr]

Russian song is really Alexander Vertinsky.



[ViolinRojo88]

ustedes no tocan en tepito

[burucozcan]

is it actually russia ?

[GSoldier68]

Yarrami Ye Fener

[miguel9536]

Great performance, indeed! greetings from Argentina!

[angelybaje]

I really like you talaga!! muahh I love you :)

[johnny41chan]

The violinist sounds more than a violin player should. Terrific!!!!

Would anyone tell me who he is?

[Johnlookingforwhat]

Violin sucks.

[DitMeThangHo]

@Johnlookingforwhat

actually both suck

ha ha ha

but the guitarist is very weak!!!

[bornnify]

Wonderful arrangement!

[redlovers]

in Turkish "Yarramı ye fener"

[boyfromillinois1127]

Haha the first time i heard this song I told my coworker that I feel like i'm in Russia when i here it. hmmm now i know why xD

[petulia67]

Fantastic-never knew it was Russian but your version brought out that Russian melancholy.

[71portugues]

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dion1957]

Excuse me,Paul Produced it for Mary Hopkin in 1968.

[landofdreams]

@Dion1957 Paul McCartney did produce Mary Hopkin's recording in 1968, but that was not the first recording of this song, nor did the original lyricist compose the melody; he adapted an old Russian folk tune. A quick trip to Wikipedia will tell you all you need to know :)

[arul20]

i shed tears. 26 yr old male :p

Bravo!

[arul20]

i shed tears. 26 yr old male :p

[Dion1957]

Excuse me, Paul McCartney wrote this.

[1mrvica2]

@Dion1957 excuse me...paul mccartney? he wasn`t even born when this song was written!!!!!!!

[ramosmanos]

Guys, you're too fast for singing with you))

[ZainorDean]

what's the name of the original song?

[bobwahliang]

My favorite song since high school, I have to turn it on several times a week.

[khanhtamcd]

wonderful ^^ i love it

[Ashtonian54]

too mechanical

no feeling

[LostIndividualism]

@Ashtonian54 I agree with you.

[maziahg]

I love this!!



[borboletamorpho]

 made famous by a British girl, beautiful played by some Japanese musicians, originally made in Russia!

[Yankpats]

Very well done.

[stone412]

Very moving, my little babooshkas :-)

[whiskydevil]

Nice performance for both instruments..

but in the Hook part, it's too fast...

in my opinion if you keep rhythm slower than that , it will be great

[gandolph3]

Great !!

[Stee5980]

Hay quá <3

[JOSEINAWAT1]

Just truly awesome. Thank you for sharing your music.

[ArianWhite]

The violin player is excellent, but the guitar player (who may be good solo) is ruining the song with his choppy, 4 beat strumming.

VERY annoying but give you two stars. Guitar player: work on your accompaniment skills!

[MrFinazz]

omg why this guitar dude spoiling this.....damn

[peterwimhof]

Very very nice. Really good recording quality.

Yes, I will have to show this to my son - who's learning violin right now.

Is it Klezmer yet? :-)

[nobodyisperfect70]

Sametschatelno! Odna metschta! 

[iksloko]

it is disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Stee5980]

@iksloko : You are the disgusting one !!!

Are you deaf ?

[BugzySiegel]

Epic!!!!!!!!!

[Russakovich]

boaah great realy great 

[aprilsky66]

You guys are great! I love how you perform the violin part. Got to show this to my son

[radar1607]

i love this mellody

[darkdevil0501]

Hay quá đi, cực kì, cực kì hay luôn :x

[Aurixdoublekopf]

How did you mike the violin? You guys are awesome. Very excellent playing and recording. I wish I could play with musicians of your caliber sadly most Americans are not as good. Most of our folk do not read music and play only negro rythums today it's very sad for our culture.

[ierofant1000]

да с песней той, что вдаль летит звеня...)

[Toastwithmarmelade]

Beautiful.

[BettinaHackel]

AWESOME!

Where did they get these instruments - thy sound really alive!

Tina

[kinhkong88]

bạn đánh guitar ơi có thể cho mình xin tab bản bạn chơi ko, email của mình: winter_sonata1609@yahoo.com

[pklinh97]

Bravo!

[durukane]

yarrramı ye fenerrrrrrrrrrrr

[PICTOM]

very good....

[Vagalume1949]

Wonder. This is my song. I love it. The playeres has a good perfourmance.

Congratulations. Search : Moacir Franco - Querida(brazilian version).

Thanks.

[boboosit]

compliments!

[catmusically]

RUSSIA,SERBIA LOVES YOU FOREVER!!!

[traduceriautorizate]

wonderful! interesting idea.

[dolores101968]

brabo....nice.

[SuperSunshine1964]

I love this song! I have never heard it in accoustic & violin. Sounds beautiful! The words have so much meaning! This song means so much to me! You'll never know how much! You guys are great! I'm going to listen again and again!

[tlwalrus]

owns

[TheCheeese000]

wow the violinist is really good!!!

[nataliiiaf]

so, to clarify the little debate going on : THESE GUYS ARE TERRIFIC, idiots that start a racist witch-hunt ,withiout there being any racists in sight , SUCK. I have no problem with other nationalities, i DO have a problem with MORONS who tell other ppl what to do or think and are just looking to an opportunity to preach. Have a nice day, everyone:))

[PantySuperPig]

that's awesome!! :)

the best version of that song i've ever heard

[danmu]

such an awesome version of such an awesome song!

[thanhkhanhcntt]

Em thích anh chơi violin, anh chơi hay quá :X

[kk331968]

bravo!

[hallowedbe1]

Wow, awesome! =)

[CALLOFDUTYII]

За родину товарищи

[amitgoel150]

Is he playing the original Russian, or the english verson ?

[SandersTheSoftwarer]

@amitgoel150, neighter or both - as you wish. This song has at least a hundred variations, both textual and music. Russian canonical version is dated 1924 with Podrevsky's lyrics, but it had been played since 1917 with Boris Fomin's (composer) lyrics. It had became go-go at 1960th, so in several decades every idiot tried to sing it with own "style".

[Vanityme102]

Guitar chơi tẻ nhạt! :|

[antoni2nguyen]

Hơi bị nể các bác. I'm proud of you.

[mateyc]

the violin sounds amazing

[mostafarajab]

The violin is stealing my heart beats in a dreamy way... love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lizzabbott]

Wonderful job! Thank you for this! I appreciate your talent & hard work!

[igberg]

Здорово! Спасибо!

[tandacat78]

oh i love it

[nyochan159]

hola tocan chevere en que escala esta la cancion

[rannosh1]

WOW .. AWESOME .. i love this song

i REALLY NEED the guitars chords today !

[tamvata]

Geil !!!

[dahsuerk]

Mary Hopkins, the first artist singed by the Beatles for Apple Records.

[BigDuckKetterer]

Tenstarsplus !!! OMG this is so beautiful that I cried, and us big tough ol' guys don't cry!!! Now I know why this melody was chosen for the song Mary Hopkin sang!!!!! It almost sounds Gypsy, so I knew it had it's origins in that part of Europe!!!! Kudos!!!!! Fantabulous!!!!!!!!!

[cyniowwa]

Great, very great!

Love this violin & guitar performance!

[Transfixus]

Brilliant

[cesetadam]

futbol dostluk futbol kardeşliktir

her şeyin üstüne çekelim bir sünger

ama son kez yarrağımı ye fener

YARRAĞIMI YE FENER

YARRAĞIMI YE FENER

[sky0diamond]

wonderfully played :)

where did you get the violin sheet music from may i ask?

[imgloda]

so nice great duet as good as i have ever heard it before

[carlosjapones]

muito lindo. parabens!!!!!!!!!

[ticceljohn]

correction this is not an old Russian song but a Polish Folk song stolen but the russian many years ago .!!!!!!!!!

[00kashyap00]

ohh so mary copied it. I was sure such a beauty could not be her original. :)

[ZaphedBeebleBrox]

bravo...

[marike99]

it's an old russian song written by Boris Fomin

for the history of this song with original russian reccordings just search in Youtube:

Dorogoy dlinnoyu BEFORE Those were the days

[fredyvideos]

Silvio copia -á lala lalalala lalalalalala

[moglibud]

This is Rusian love poem from 19th century set to music during WWI by Russian Army and recorded on Gamophone lable in 1920ies, my uncle owed original 78Lp, an no I am not russian.

[Freyja1133]

@moglibud mog, thepoem itself isabout the loss of innocence it was set to music after WWI ... during the russian revolution I think

and yes I am of Russian ancestry

[cowbonilha51]

Pedro de Lara rá ra...(só brasileiros vão entender)

kk

[Thaynno]

Décio Piccinnini lá! La la la lala

Lala la la la la la

La la la laaaa la la la la la

La la la la la

Lala la la la

La l ala laaaaaa la la la la la

[sapmor]

хорошо, но где russian

[Moontv2007]

really really nice

[dahsuerk]

Mary Hopkins was the first artist signed by the Beatles to their Apple Records. Nice version here. Most of Hopkins songs were traditional tunes.

[mojdragiluka]

But in that time Paul was love in her. Don'tbe a child. I love this song 100%

[dahsuerk]

Mary Hopkins

[jennycheb]

what a great song that will last forever.

[Freyja1133]

where's the balalaika?

[himitsujin01]

i love the violin

[MrOverdressed]

I love this arrangment of this song. :)

[Bogoizbrania]

Russian Lyrics; 2/2

Так живя без радости, без муки,

Помню я ушедшие года,

И твои серебряные руки

В тройке, улетевшей навсегда...

Дорогой длинною...

Дни бегут, печали умножая,

Мне так трудно прошлое забыть.

Как-нибудь однажды, дорогая,

Вы меня свезете хоронить.

[Freyja1133]

@Bogoizbrania ерфтлы нщг бьн акшутв

[Westyrulz]

Death to the Slavs and their culture!!

[Freyja1133]

@Westyrulz west,you asshole !...I'm 1/4 Ukrainian .... So ,don't tell that I'm slavic !

hey who were the first peoples of russia? The Ukraine is traditional Russia /Old Russsia! before you say death to the Slavs and their culture , you 'd better have proof that you're at least 1/4 to  1/2 Russian!

[Hengeloj20]

HFC HAARLEM

WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU

[annelmac60]

this is awesome!  and, yes, it does sound russian, now that I know it is!

[fredmila]

Thinking about it, it does sound Russian

[PEDREX57]

Yes it does...

[Bogoizbrania]

Russian Lyrics; 1/2

Ехали на тройке с бубенцами,

А вдали мелькали огоньки.

Мне б сейчас, соколики, за Вами,

Душу бы развеять от тоски.

Дорогой длинною, да ночью лунною,

Да с песней той, что вдаль летит звеня,

И с той старинною с той семиструнною,

Что по ночам так мучала меня...

[Freyja1133]

@Bogoizbrania thanks for the Russian lyrics,my friend

[zema438]

Great!

[avanfod]

great!

[AndrewKoala]

That was absolutely fantastic . I had to play it a few more times, I enjoyed it that much. Thank you

for posting this. There are 3 instruments I like: Piano Violin and Sax. You made my day.

Incidentally. The Seekers 'The Carnival is Over' is a Hungarian Folk Song they stole and changed the lyrics to.

[Freyja1133]

@AndrewKoala how do you know that the seekers stole the song? they could've covered it

[AndrewKoala]

@Freyja1133 - You can see from newer comments that I started something here. I know it is not a cover as it was played to me (on a Vinyl record by a Hungarian. Now maybe it was originally Russian or Polish or Hungarian and anyone of them could have a cover of it. But the Seekers completely altered the lyrics, and used / plagiarized someone else' s tune. That is 100% for certain.

[Derwentcub]

Absolutely woderful - thanks so much for posting this..

[MashaD200]

yea this version is in the russian cartoon "nu pagadi"

[SdmAngeL]

Hmm ! Can someone help, i want to vote on some of these comments, but after i clicked on a 'thumbs up,' refresh the page - my vote has been erased . Huh!

[TrcDK]

mine to...dont know why...

[SdmAngeL]

Thanks : )

[Tamilinou]

LOVED THE PART WITH THE ARTIFICIAL HARMONICS! Bravo!! I really like :D

[90210parisfy]

where did u get the music sheet for violin for this song? i look 4 it everywhere, plz help

[yukonnahanni]

rockerbell, was so right ,.. Music needs no Passport !!! Passports take us to other places geographically, but , our Ears to hear,do not need Passports , when they enjoy & hear talent as mine are hearing now .. We need to Appriciate

[yukonnahanni]

wonderful !!! was a joy , to hear this , I thank, the talented people who, play ed this wonderful rendition..It truly was a joy to hear !! Thank-you

[rockrebell]

Who cares for nationalities? Music needs no passport :-)

[marike99]

@rockrebell

yes, of course, but if you sing my song, you just say: "it's yours, not mine, but in MY interpretation" and Mary Hopkin don't do it

[voravik]

great boy....do it.

[seasidesandles]

Keep up the timing boys! The early part is a bit wrong.

You have good hearts and the feeling is very good.

[Piercetp]

At any rate, anyone who looks at the home page of the poster can see that these artists are Vietnamese.

Really great work. Its music played with such heart.

[Piercetp]

@Volokhov

Interesting. I met Russians who are definately Asian in appearance. I believe many are of Siberian or Central Asian origin.

[lkh5791]

It's hard to say about the violinist, but the guitarist is definitely Vietnamese

In fact, I might have seen him somewhere lol

[tzar2007]

to sheburnslikethesun:

- YOU CAN TELL A JAPANESE FROM VIETNAMESE?

YOU MUST BE CHINESE, LOL

[MekF]

I'm Vietnamese n' he looks like a fellow to me. Btw, his nick is in vietnamese and his profile says that he's from Vietnam. And also, a Japanese male looks really different from a Vietnamese male. Is that enough?

[kaixtran]

NO NO NO !!!! i don't think you're right at all dude. It's really easy to tell a japanese from vietnamese people. Easy as you can define yourself from Germans or English or blah blah blah. ANYWAY, i understand this. Maybe it's really difficult for you to define Japs or Viets cus you grew up in some well else. I know it's hard just like how a colorblind man define you and a black person y'know ? HAHA.

[conscarcdr]

Pwahahaha, you're trolling dude:)

[BarbaraArtcastle]

I liked it very much!

[tzar2007]

- the Japanese murdering a Russian song, eh...

[sheburnslikethesun]

Japanese?

They don't even remotely look japanese...

vietnamese.

fool :)

[awildelephant]

They are Vietnamese, not Japanese.  If I was Russian, I would be honored that they are attempting to honor/appreciate a piece of Russian music. Regardless, music transcend cultures and nationalities. Take it easy and have a nice day.

[nataliiiaf]

@awildelepht russians have plenty to be proud of without having to be "honoured" by smn "appreciating" our art,ok? and there are no "IF" s in this case, you`re not a russian, so don`t say what u WOULD feel if u were one, it`s ridiculous;vietnamese-stay vietnamese, if u please..

[NOalRAZZISMO]

@nataliiiaf

get real baby! You're talking nonsense! vietnamese stay vietnamese hahahaha!!!

[awildelephant]

@nataliiiaf: Alright then. It's great that you appreciate your culture/art. I don't know these two performers, But I am sure they are very proud of being Vietnamese. Have you ever wondered why your own country's Moscow State Academic Philharmonic Society are performing Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, ect (just to name a few) this year?. Are you going to write a letter to Mr. Slutsky to tell him "It's ridiculous, Rusian stay Russian, if you please..."?

[nataliiiaf]

@awildelephant haha, ok, this is like THE most misunderstood comment ever:) first of all, i never said these guys were not talented and my comnet had NOTHING to do with their playing(i don`t even know if they are vietnamese at all), it was intended for the idiot who said "russians shld be proud that they appreciate the culture blah blah") as it is ridiculous to be grateful for appreciating something that is wonderful as it is; these guys chose to play this song, they did it great..(to be cont`d)

[nataliiiaf]

@awildelephant oh, that idiot was you! So, here`s the deal : it is NATURAL to appreciate nice things, it is not charity and hence,it is not the subject for gratitude, as this song well DESERVES to be appreciated; this has nothing to do with me being russian and them being asian; it`s about the cheap cheesy corny hallmark-card style" nature of YOUR comment that pissed me off (oh an di`m stickign to my remark - you`re not a russian, so please don`t talk how would you feel IF u were one)

[nataliiiaf]

@awildelephant so, as you see, I don`t have a problem with otehr races , I have a problem with idiots, who talk bullshit and throw pretty-sounding words without thinking too deep about what they mean, and sound rididulous when they think they sound profound. So, to summarise : THESE GUYS ARE GREAT, so is the song, and you are an idiot (for thinking two-dimentionally and jumping to conclusions without thinking thing through..which was precisely the reason why i reacted to ur originla comment)