song: Drive My Car
language: Russian
performer: Vesyolye Rebyata (Весёлые Ребята)
From a 1971 performance. Vesyolye Rebyata ("Jolly Fellows") were a popular Soviet-era (and presumably Kremlin-sanctioned) band that continues to record and perform - at least that what I gathered from the google translation of their wikipedia page.
This is not the image of the USSR that I grew up with, to say the least. Then again, we had Nixon on Laugh-In a few years before this.
Nice raincoats! And dig the lead guitar player, who only shows up on camera during his solo, where he does some really uncomfortable-looking strutting (or perhaps he's just swallowing a vole).
"Старенький автомобиль" (starenky avtomobil) translates as "Old Car", which makes me curious about the lyrics.
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