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The Songs of My Mother (Песни моей мамы) is a Russian album by the singer Vitas. It was released in the 3rd of April 2003. Together with the previous album Mama, the two albums were a tribute to his late mother. Songs from these albums featured heavily in the setlist of Vitas' extensive world tour The Songs of My Mother, performed at hundreds of venues in several countries from 2004-2006.[1]

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Songs of My Mother
Studio album by Vitas
Released	April 3, 2004 (2004-04-03)
Recorded	2001 – 2003
Genre	Pop, Folk
Length	43:19
Label	Iceberg Music
Producer	Eduard Izmestyev
Vitas chronology
Mama (2003) Songs of My Mother (2004) A Kiss as Long as Eternity (2004)

While Mama included several new songs written by Vitas, Songs of My Mother consists entirely of cover versions of popular older songs, described as "the gold reserves of Russian pop music",[2] including the 1980 song, The Bird of Happiness, composed by Aleksandra Pakhmutova and Nikolai Dobronravov (from Yuri Ozerov's 1981 film O Sport, You - the world!), previously recorded by the vocal – instrumental ensemble Zdravstvuy, Pesnya, among others.[3][4] The song The Bird of Happiness became from 1981 on forward the most successful in both Russia and China,[5] and is still often performed by Vitas on stage. The song Chrysanthemums Have Faded was previously included on Vitas' Smile! album. All the other tracks were newly recorded for Songs of My Mother.

Vitas performed a piano-backed arrangement of Winter on a Russian New Year TV show in 2002.[6]

Track listing

Personnel

• Sergey Pudovkin – executive producer
• Mikhail Dobrotvorskiy – management
• Dmitriy Dobrotvorskiy – direction
• Eduard Izmestyev – production, arrangement
• Mikhail Grishin – engineering
• Ilya Grebenyuk – keyboards
• Aleksandr Gruzdev – guitar, saxophone
• Rashit Kiyamov – bass guitar
• Rushan Kharryasov – drums, percussion
• Oboz Design Studio – sleeve design

References

External links

• Official Site
• English translations of lyrics

На других языках

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- [en] The Songs of My Mother

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[ru] Песни моей мамы

«Песни моей мамы» — четвёртый студийный альбом российского певца Витаса, вышедший в 2003 году одновременно с альбомом «Мама»[1]. Оба альбома Витас посвятил своей покойной маме Лилии Михайловне Грачёвой, ушедшей из жизни в 2001 году. Альбом представляет собой сборник кавер-версий аранжировок известных советских шлягеров в исполнении Витаса[2].

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