I learned about the Soviet-era song, “We the Children of the Galaxy” from EnglishRussia. With some trouble (because I didn’t know a Russian word for “lyrics”) I found lyrics, too, at nomorelyrics.net. I like it — a good song for language-learning. The above is from YouTube. I think it’s the same as on EnglishRussia.
The singer, Lev Leshchenko, has a good voice. I looked around to see what other songs of his I might like to put on my MP3 player to learn with. There are a lot of YouTube clips of him, from many years worth of singing, it looks like, but so far I haven’t found anything else I care to listen to all the way through.
English Russia also has two other versions of the song. I didn’t find a YouTube clip for the 2nd one, but it’s not to be missed. I was speechless upon seeing it, but not noiseless. I hope everyone was having a good time with it, but I’m not sure what kind of a good time it might have been.
The 3rd one is by the same artist as the YouTube version above. The style of singing made me wonder if Vladimir Vysotsky had ever done this song, and how he would have done it. Maybe it wasn’t the right kind of subject matter for him.