כדי לשחזר את השיר בשפה המקורית אם אינו מופיע לאחר לחיצה על שם השיר המסומן כאן בקוו תחתון או כדי למצוא גירסות נוספות העתיקו/הדביקו את שם השיר בשפת המקור מדף זה לאתר YOUTUBE
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התרגומים לאנגלית נעשו באמצעות המנוע "מתרגם גוגל" והתרגום הועתק לאתר בצורתו המקורית ללא עריכה נוספת
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Notes written by Izzy Hod: The melody, for the gypsy/Russian song, What is my sadness, was written by the Russian composer, Samuel Yakovlevich Pokras, who during the civil war in Russia, specifically in 1920, wrote a number of important war songs, about the events of the Red Army. In 1934, the composer immigrated to America and began writing music for Hollywood films. One of the best known among them is the three musketeers. Following this and in order to deliberately ignore the composer, on the records of the song, What is my sadness, the name of Piotr Konstantinovich Leshchanko appeared as the composer and lyricist of the song. Leshchanko, was the singer, whose name the song is identified with. Leshchanko himself, also used to go on concert tours, in Western countries, something that did not go unnoticed by the authorities of Soviet Russia, after the Second World War and they marked him as someone who cannot be trusted and then, when he was in Romania, as a traitor to the motherland. In 1951, in the middle of a concert in Romania and by order of Moscow, he was arrested together with his wife. Perhaps because in 1942 Leshchenko performed in concert, in Odessa, which was then occupied by the Nazis. His wife was released and Leshchanko was constantly transferred from one prison to another and finally, due to illness, he was sent in 1954 to a prison hospital, where he underwent an operation for a stomach ulcer, from which and the periods of imprisonment, he did not recover and died that year. In 2013, a television series was produced, which noted important events in the life of Leshchenko, his childhood and youth, his participation in the battles of the First World War, the beginning of his career, the success of his journey in occupied Odessa, during the Second World War, the wives of his life, and his tragic death, in a Romanian prison. The song, What is my sadness, is heard in the television series in his memory. The life of Piotr Leshchanko, the singer, with whom the song, What is my sadness, is identified, is still shrouded in fog. He was born in 1898, in a small village near the city of Odessa, in Ukraine. At a young age, he moved to Kishinev, in Bessarabia, which became a part of Romania in the First World War, and thus, Leshchanko became a Romanian citizen. He immigrated to Paris, to study ballet and married a ballet dancer, there; he performed in singing and dancing shows. In 1933, the family, including his younger sisters, moved to the city of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, where he opened a restaurant, named Leshchanko, and he, his wife and two sisters performed there and with them the first pop singer in Romania, Alla Bianova. In 1944, after separating from his first wife, he married a woman, an actress, many years younger than him, Vera Belusova. Then he was ordered to report for the draft, for the World War II effort, but on the advice of a doctor friend, he underwent a sham operation, for appendectomy and did not report for the draft and in 1951, he was arrested, by the Romanian secret police, for reasons unknown to this day, perhaps because he appeared in 1942 in a concert, in Odessa occupied by the Nazis, and in 1954, he died, while hospitalized in the prison hospital. This news was published in the Soviet Union only in 1988, 34 years after his death. And everything is still shrouded in mystery. The content of the lyrics is telling the lament of a drunken young man, I'll still be a role model for glory, starting the sad, Gypsy song. I will no longer run away from my fate that I still do not know what it is. I have not yet found love, so I will live with what is left without it. How much sorrow there is in this stormy world, so to cheer I will swallow a pitcher full of red wine. I really like the sound of the guitar, every shaking string shakes me too, like the look of a woman whose laughter destroys me. How much sorrow there is in this world, I will swallow another pitcher of wine to calm down.
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