Tamara Miansarova. Music: Ludvík Podéšť (Czechoslovakia); Russian lyrics: G. Fere and L. Lukianov
Description: Miansarova’s lively performance of this mix of dixieland and charleston music, so alien to the Soviet canon, would eventually land her in disfavor. Like many of her generation, she found that she could not longer record or perform in the capital cities, and could only find work in the mining town of Donetsk. As official tastes broadened in the 1980s, she found her way back to Moscow and quickly recovered her popularity.