Hey all, you're probably tired of/dreading my inane questions about music issued on Soviet compilation albums, but I'll try to limit those. This track is from Вокруг Света [Around the Word] album 7, from 1960.
This one is titled "
Always and Forever", or "
Раз и навсегда" in Russian. The lyrics are relatively easy to hear, in spite of the recording quality, but searching them turns up nothing. The composer credit, Smith ["Смит" in Russian] is equally helpful...
Supposedly it's from the US, and I'm not sure where else it'd come from [sometimes they'd assign tracks to other countries since they sourced/dubbed the piece from a foreign pressing, so music from Germany winds up as Spain since the pressing was from Spain].
The vocal ensemble, or Вокальный ансамбль, is generic enough that they didn't credit a group name or artist, just as the tune is sufficiently generic enough to make identification difficult [though I'm not the best at IDing tracks]. The background marimba and guitar bits don't strike me either.
Anyone recognize it?
