Posted on 07/26/2009 7:30:29 PM PDT by JoeProBono
SWEET HOME ALABAMA
Interesting....
I’d love that song even if it was played on spoons or a kazoo...
That was great!
To all my fellow Cold Warriors: The Red Army Chorus is singing “Sweet Home Alabama” and wearing extremely bad ducktails.
I think we won.
Do they do a cover version of “Back In The USSR”?
If you want really strange, watch them do the Tom Jones song “Delilah”.
I only wish Ronaldus Magnus could be here to see this clip.
AWESOME Russkies!
Minor correction.
It’s a Finnish band “Lenningrad Cowboys” backed by the Russian Army Chorus.
Which makes it doubly amazing. Whouda thunk you could get Finns and Russkies together like that?
This is the hideous, fatal answer to the foolish demand, “Play some Skynyrd, man!”
The amazing thing to me is it is one of the best versions I have heard.
The Leningrad Cowboys with the weird mullets, the Red Army Choir, dancing girls in traditional Russian peasant outfits, all performing the song Delilah.
I never took LSD, but this has to be real close what you saw if you took the brown acid at Woodstock.
I remember seeing these guys do “Sweet Home Alabama” on TV years ago. They were great!
That was just so strange. I wonder why the army’s choir would be involved in such a distinctly American song. I mean, I can see a love song or some song about how great it is to rock out, but that song is just so American. Weird.
They did a good job, though.
On an institutional level, the Red Army Choir likely remembers the propaganda coup it scored touring the West during the height of the Cold War while performing “It’s a long way to Tipperary.” (It was a crowd favorite). On a professional level, they’ll perform anything put to sheet music, and enjoy proving that they can (language barrier, etc., notwithstanding).
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