Helmut Lotti - "Those Were The Days" 

He is fantastic and this song is wonderful. I added it to my favorites. Joelma , brazilian singer , recorded this song when I was almost a baby and I never forgot it. Congratulations!

так мило слушать в исполнении Хельмута Лотти. Мне понравилось исполнение больше всех остальных русских певцов. Обычно стараются петь басов да пожирнее, со всей мощью феодализма, чтобы аж крепостное право чувствовал кожей. А Лотти поет тенором так задорно по-простецки как простой крестьянский паренек полный жизни и надежд

Best singer and artist ever it's been years since i started enjoying his work ❤ greetings from tunisia

Великолепно , очень красиво! С благодарностью из России !

Yes this is a Russian Jewish song composed by Boris Fomin about 1920. Eugene Raskin a Columbia professor and part time folks singer, said that as a small boy his mother would sing him this song, and years later he, as you note, gave it English lyrics and it became a hit for Mary Hopkin.

I love Helmut)) From Russia

I'm a puerto-rican,I speak english,spanish and french love history special russian history, dances etc.

rosyjskie pieśni są piękne.Danke Helmut.Das ist wunderbar!!!!!

Wonderful voice & great performance

Beautiful. Great voice. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from Canada

Very nice, clear voice. I have to sing this in June, and since I am just learning now how to speak Russian, this is very helpful...it's such a beautiful tune.

The world is such a wonderful place, rich with various cultures and traditions. I love them all. I wish that we could learn to see the good and similarity in all mankind, and stop killing and hurting each other.

s He sings in so many languages...what a gift. I am so jealous!

yay....this track was also sung by mary hopkins...thoooose were the days my friend we thought they'd never end...and so on...i'm also originally from poland.accordingly i grew up with that music as well although its russian. it's wonderful to listen to such tracks after so many years....ahhh....

Egal in was für eine Sprache er singt die Stimme ist einfach fantastisch

I meet a man it soud like him.beautiful voice.

From Florida USA, thank you Helmut. I hope you are doing well now.

Was kann die Musik dafür das es so einen Grössenwahn gibt! Ein schönes Lied ....vorgetragen von einem wunderbaren Sänger🎼❗👍

Passé un très agréable moment avec Helmut Lotti dans ses oeuvres musicales parfaites Bravo;bravo et merçi !

added it to my favorites.

,,Die Sterne sind entfernte, Sonnen, das "Wohl" der Menschheit liegt mir sehr "am Herzen", durch Wahrhaftigkeit, geht unser Weg zu Ehrlichkeit." M. Lingemann

Ехали на тройке с бубенцами, А вдали мелькали огоньки. Эх, когда бы мне теперь за вами, Душу бы развеять от тоски! Припев: Дорогой длинною, да ночкой лунною, Да с песней той, что в даль летит, звеня, Да со старинною, да семиструнною, Что по ночам так мучила меня. Да, выходит, пели мы задаром. Понапрасну ночь за ночью жгли. Если мы покончили со старым, Так и ночи эти отошли! Припев. В даль иную - новыми путями - Ехать нам судьбою суждено! Ехали на тройке с бубенцами, Да теперь проехали давно.

Nagyon jòl hangzik

Helmut Great job Man !!!!!!!!!! lelichka-Russian from USA

A winner.

Thank you, Helmut! From Russia with love

It comes as a surprise to me also! The russian original is charming and Lotti, of course as always the best.

Ein "lauschiger" Abend.

thank you for up load ,beautiful music beautiful people

Предлагаю Гельмуту заслуженного арттиста

Wow! Thankss, Helmut! From Russia with love

Beautiful and memorable one.

Most of us liked this song. It is in my name.

très belle chanson et grand chanteur.. :)

On est jamais à l'abri du malheur but this song makes me think about when we were free running after the butterflies.

Muy buen vídeo, excelente escenografía. Gracias Wanda por compartir.

Beautiful song and beautiful video.

Landscape construction and arrangement is great . Singers sing the song, I like to listen to most songs helmut Lotti . He sings very well. Good

beautiful .gretings from Poland

......grande canzone, Bellissima intepretazione, grazie fanka.

great voice,. great songs

Bravo !! Bravísimo !!

Sagt' mal danke. 100 Jahre

precioso gracias fanka por compartir saludos

Sublimissime.merci.

Beauuuuutiful !!!!!!

beautifful !!!

Ich finde ihn einfach wunderbar😍😍😍😍😍

Best version ever!

Sharing & enjoying traditional songs & culture and thus relating to our comman humanity is what President Kennedy had in mind when he said of the people of the (former) Soviet Union in 1963 "For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

He sing this song very well. I like this russian version. Thanks you for posting.

piękna pieśń i ładnie brzmi w wersji rosyjskojęzycznej

Kiitos Helmut ...!!!!!

SUPERB

cool this guy is amazing

Lovely musical perforance

Dawei, Commrades, trinkt. Trinkt auf Apetor, good journey. Wodka Boss. ♥

how sweet

bella!

Can't believe the original song is Russian. Reminds me of "if your ears are open, shut your eyes ". One more language to add to my meager tongues... too slow to catch my beloved HL :))

respect from Romania

Jetzt weine ich wieder, wegen der Frau, die ich liebe.

By the Long Road You rode on a troika with sleigh bells, And in the distance lights flickered.. If only I could follow you now I would dispel the grief in my soul! By the long road, in the moon light, And with this song that flies off, ringing, And with this ancient, this ancient seven-string, That has so tormented me by night.

Szuper!

Woderfuld ! This is my homecountry music. BEST Hurjah rossija

Man. This guys is awesome. Great voice and great sining i about 8 languages ? I'm impressed.

Ganz grosse stimme durfte ihn schon so oft live erleben

Sensacional

Świetna piosenka!!! 5*****

nice man yeah!

Hammer Mann

So ist die Kultur, meine russischen Freunde. Da. Gut.

Молодец, красавец! =)

@mauquiroz We rode on a troika with bells, A lights flashing in the distance ... Ah, how i would like to follow you, To deprive my soul from the boredom Chorus By the long road,by the moon night With the song,which flies away ringing With that ancient and seven-stringed which at nights so tormented me But it turns out we were singing for nothing, Needlessly burning night after night. If we did away with everything old, So these nights also moved away Chorus

Me gusta recordar la música de la época en que hacía el bachillerato, es hermosa

@Elvra99 Hey, thank you so much!!! It is great to listening to it, and yet better when one understands what is the song about... nice!

super song super vois

No, entirely different. The title in Russian is "The Long Road" and it's about a soldier who is far away from his lover, nd says he knows that if she were with him, the nights wouldn't be so cold.

Light is important.

💙💙💙

There are so many Slavic-language songs "ripped" from the other side of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War - this is one; another is "Lutshje Bulo" turned into "Yes, my Darling Daughter" with English lyrics written by Jack Lawrence and performed by many Western artists including the Andrew's Sisters, Glenn Miller and Sandie Shaw; and of course there is Acker Bilk's "Midnight in Moscow" which is actually the Russian folk song "Podmoskovnye Vechera" (evenings around Moscow).

Great Version. So Beautiful. 👍👍👍💓💓💓

it's an old russian song written by Boris Fomin and Konstantin Podrevsky the song is about their past youth (long road, troikas, guitar, long nights) for the history of this song with original russian reccordings just search in RU-vid: Dorogoy dlinnoyu BEFORE Those were the days

Those Where The days

I thank him for visiting Burundi.

Helmut lotti singt auf 15 verschiedene Sprachen, Ungarisch ist leider nicht dabei. Ich wünsche mir von ihn Ungarische Lied zu hören❤

Heute habe ich mir wieder einen guten Wodka getrunken.

I like this Russian classic.

Interessante

my grandmama was Russian , i know this song very well : he sings without passion and SOUL .... and soul is the most important thing in RUSSIAN music , so ..think what YOU WANT ...Greetings

The signature of Versailles.

to Uusikaarlepyy The melody is Russian, but the song was not translated, an American Gene Raskin wrote the lyrics for the song "Those were the days" this is not a translation from the Russian song "Dorogoy dlinnoyu" which means "By a long road" or "along a long road" The song in Russian Дорогой длинною, was written by Boris Fomin in the early 1900's with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. Mary Hopkin had the biggest and best known hit with this song. maryhopkindotnet

I didnt know this was the original version!! thanks for sharing... I prefere the spanish version though LOL and the english one sounds cool LOL

Firma, "Henkel", Düsseldorf ✔

this is actually the original one, my friend

English Lyrics translated from Russian ; They rode in a troika with bells, And lights flickered in the distance. Eh, how would I now follow you, Soul to dispel from longing. Dear long, but moonlit night, Yes, with that song that flies into the distance, ringing, Yes, with that old, but seven-string, That tormented me so at night. Yes, with that old, but seven-string, That tormented me so at night. Yes, it turns out, we sang for nothing, We burned in vain night after night. If you are done with the old, these nights are gone. Dear long, but moonlit night, Yes, with that song that flies into the distance, ringing, Yes, with that old, but seven-string, That tormented me so at night. (2) From now on, we are destined to go to our homeland in new ways. We rode in a troika with bells, And now we arrived a long time ago. Dear long, but moonlit night, Yes, with that song that flies into the distance, ringing, Yes, with that old, but seven-string, That tormented me so at night. Yes, with that old, but seven-string, That tormented me so at night. Yes, with that old, but seven-string, That tormented me so at night.

Les représentants de Mary Hopkin (voir le commentaire de richpat) ont très peur de reconnaître qu'il s'agit de la même chanson. Alors qu'en comparant les deux chansons tout le monde constate que "Those were the days" n'est qu'UNE VERSION anglo-américaine de "Dorogoy dlinnoyu".

Dawei, Freunde

He isn't singing the song "those were the days" he is singing a song called "Dorogoy dlinnoyu" An American called Gene Raskin (who sang with the "limelighters" and who recorded it first) wrote the lyrics for the song "Those were the days" and used the melody only from the song "Dorogoy dlinnoyu" Дорогой длинною ("By a long road" or "along a long road") which was written by the Russian song writer Boris Fomin with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii Pat maryhopkinDOTnet

there were some sleepless days/nights with love(r) or with revo-violence days/nights fighting with commrades ..they ran away towards to their born-hometown on a troika along a long road..the original russian lyric is this. newer lyric by an american and music arranged by Paul to Mary is the more sweet and making inpact for all the poeples mind, isnt it? i like happy songs..though i really want Mary to sing with her passionate sweet voice in a vodka bar with russian tast backmusic....