Polyushko-polye
Poljuschko Pole (Russian Полюшко Поле, German: " Feldchen, my Feldchen " ) is a Russian song that was composed in 1933 by Lev Knipper. The song is part of the symphony with chorus " The Ballad of the Komsomol Fighter " (1934 ) (Russian Поэма о бойце - комсомольце, Poema o Boize - Komsomol ). The associated text was written by Viktor Gusev.
In the West, the song was first adapted during World War II by Glenn Miller and Jerry Gray, under the title "The Red Cavalry March" or "Russian Patrol"; after that it became famous mainly through cover versions of famous rock and pop groups, in this case the Spotnicks are ( " The Rocket Men," 1961), Jefferson Airplane ( " Meadowlands ", 1969), Ivan Rebroff and Blackmore 's Night ( "Gone with the Wind", 1999) to mention. David Bowie used 1971, the melody as the chorus for " Velvet Goldmine ". Furthermore, there is " The Russians are coming in the movies! The Russians Are Coming "(1966), " Leningrad Cowboys Go America " (1989 ) and" Cast Away - Lost "(2000 ) was used. In the case of the Leningrad Cowboys with the song " Kasakka " (Finnish: " Cossack ") was titled. Christian Bruhn composed 1980 for Captain Future Soundtrack also a Popvariante without text under the title Space wind. In 9 of the Japanese anime film series Girls and Tank ( 2012) Pravda dance the girls after a instrumental version of Lantis Co.