Yul Brynner Russian Musical Tribute

Here is a Russian-Gypsy song ("The Shawl" - "Shalyonochka") performed by the fabulous Yul Brynner.
Yul Brynner (1920 -- 1985) was a Russian-born Broadway and Academy Award-winning Hollywood actor. He was born Yuliy Borisovich Brynner (Russian: Юлий Бори́сович Бри́ннер) in Vladivostok, Russia. His father was of Swiss and Mongolian ancestry. After his father abandoned his family, his mother took Yul and his sister, Vera, to China, and in 1934 she took them to Paris, France. He began acting and modeling in his 20s. He appeared in many movies and stage productions in the United States. He is best known for his portrayal of the Siamese king in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "The King and I" on the stage and on the screen, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film "The Ten Commandments" and as Chris Adams in "The Magnificent Seven". He also starred in such films as the Biblical epic "Solomon and Sheba" (1959), as Solomon (with Gina Lollobrigida), "Westworld" (1973), with Marlon Brando in "Morituri", with Katharine Hepburn in "The Madwoman of Chaillot" and William Shatner in a film version of "The Brothers Karamazov". His final feature film appearance was in the sequel to "Westworld", titled "Futureworld" with Peter Fonda, in 1976. In addition to his work as a performer, Brynner was an active photographer, and wrote two books. Yul Brynner is interred in the cemetery at the Saint-Michel-de-Bois-Aubry monastery in Luzé, near Poitiers, Vienne, France. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and his childhood home, in Vladivostok, is now a museum.
But Yul Brynner was also a singer and made an excellent record of Russian and Gypsy songs with the famous Gypsy guitarist and singer Aliosha Dimitrievich.
Enjoy Yul's exceptional class and voice!

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[Musicafatata]

Fantastic....

Do you know the name of the song?

[johnxxx20000]

It's precised in my notes: "Shalyonochka" ("The Shawl").

Thank you for your comment!

[spaciousgalaxy]

Yul Brynner was extremely hot and sexy!! Especially as Ramses in the Ten Commandments! He was the best looking actor in that movie, and one of the most handsome men of all time! Thanks for the video!

[Roufovitch]

Светлая память Вам,Юлий Борисович!

[209seancoatello]

@ibbiwho wow so he was a gypsy like us

[54321Slava]

Спасибо.

Низкий поклон.

[LVSinger]

Sinatra held Brynner in high esteem, calling him "the brain"...for obvious reasons. I imagine he was a very complex and certainly interesting figure.

[The78256]

please hel me. I like to purchase Cds with Mr Yul Brynner singing and plying

the guitar. in Russian-Gypsy - french or English (not the King and I - I have the movie

warmest regards, marizu baldassarini

[gypsysisterlove4]

@ibbiwho hi ther! btw god bless u! and thanks! 4ur wonderfull comment!:) sure enough i'm proud of my dad<3 for what he did for he's ppl.and he sure was pretty much involved with yul bryner.and incl"many other roma ppl such as jan cibula&many others but unfortn:my dad has passt away:(( 4allmost a year ago,,,,,the grazy thing is at the time when i wrote this comment like a year ago just a'week after that he got ill.

[tamara6169]

j'aime !!!!!

[ibbiwho]

@gypsysisterlove4 I saw him on an interview with the BBC and he was helping Romanies in the Uk. They asked him why he was helping them and he said, his mother was a Gypsy. Yul Brynner led a four man team that presented a petition to the United Nations for Romani membership in 1978, and has served as representative on the UN Economic and Social Council and in UNICEF. If your dad was involved you should be proud of him, well done.

Kushty Bok

[fightinside1]

@jayjay909845 no actually, he's half russian and fourth swiss fourth mongolian.

[Taharah007]

Never a MAN like him!!!

[SweetLo22]

I love it!