The cartoon of the middle of the last century “The Town Musicians of Bremen” was not watched only by an ardent opponent of animation in general, but by the majority of viewers different ages remembers it very well, moreover, considers it one of the best cartoon musicals, that is, stories told through songs and melodies. Do you know what songs Magomayev sang in The Bremen Town Musicians, who else voiced the characters and how they were recorded? Indeed, to this day, after so many years, some aspects of the creation of this wonderful creation remain in the shadows.
In whose voices do the cartoon characters sing?
Many viewers know that the most popular song in “The Bremen Town Musicians” was sung by Magomayev; it was heard from all radio stations and records. This is “A Ray of Golden Sun”. But regarding the rest, no less interesting, everyone is at a loss, sometimes giving very interesting versions, even such that the Princess sang in the voice of Alla Borisovna, and the song of the robbers was performed by the famous troika from the movie, which became prototypes for Vitsin, Nikulin and Morgunov. Of course, these versions are completely incorrect and were invented by ignorant fans.
Here full list those who sing in The Town Musicians of Bremen and all subsequent series:
- Elmira Zherzdeva - the capricious Princess sang in her voice.
- in the first episode of the film he performed all the songs of Troubadour, Atamansha and minor roles.
- Muslim Magomayev replaced Anofriev in the second episode of the cartoon, and also voiced the Detective, displaying unexpected voice timbres.
- The Pesnyary group performed music for famous song“We stopped by for an hour,” they also recorded a phonogram with words, but the creators of the project abandoned it due to the pronounced accent of the performers.
- The group "Veselye guys" replaced the previous Belarusian group.
- Gennady Gladkov - King's solo.
- Anatoly Gorokhov sang the parts of all the animals: Donkey, Rooster, Dog and Cat.
Who voiced Troubadour?
Even now, the lyrical ballad “Ray of the Golden Sun,” better known as the “Troubadour Song,” is pleasant to the ear: children, schoolchildren and romantically minded youth sing it with pleasure. This hit was performed by Muslim Magomayev in the second episode of the cartoon, his popularity and employment in those years were already great, but at the same time he made a gesture worthy of a great man: he did not take the fee due to him for this work, saying that he was doing voice acting for pleasure .
In the first part of The Town Musicians of Bremen, Oleg Anofriev performed almost all the male parts, unexpectedly discovering another talent in himself - voice imitation. Moreover, this happened unexpectedly, since the planned group “Accord” (quite popular in those years) did not come for the recording: either the time set by the recording studio “Melody” was inappropriate, or force majeure, but the fact remains: Oleg I had to sing not only for “my” Troubadour, but also for the Atamansha, trying to be like Faina Ranevskaya, as well as for the guards and robbers.
Why didn't he sing in subsequent parts? Official version: the singer did not agree with some important points recording songs, although the creators of the cartoon claim that Oleg simply fell ill with “star fever.”
Quartet of musicians from Bremen
Who sings the animal parts in The Town Musicians of Bremen? Famous people were invited for this:
- For voicing Donkey - Oleg Yankovsky.
- Dog - Yuri Nikulin.
- Kota - Andrey Mironov.
- The Rooster is Georgy Vitsin, the King was also supposed to sing in his voice.
Famous actors did not come because the exact time for recording the sound was not agreed upon, so they simply could not leave their film sets, because already then there were famous people and had no free time.
Therefore, they asked Anatoly Gorokhov, a songwriter who was at the studio at that time, to try to voice the quartet in different voices. Everything turned out so amazingly that we decided not to fix it and leave it as is.
There is another version of fans of the cartoon who claim that Donkey’s parts are heard in the voice of Leonid Bergman, the lead singer from “Jolly Fellows,” who had already left the group and filed documents to emigrate. Because of this, all data about his participation in the project was deleted, and Anatoly Gorokhov took credit for his efforts.
Authors of poetry and music
Little has been sorted out about who sings in The Bremen Town Musicians, but it is definitely worth mentioning the songwriters from all episodes of this stunning musical masterpiece: Gennady Gladkov wrote the music, and Yuri Entin wrote the words, while witnesses to the creation of the film say that some of the words to Anofriev himself wrote the songs. Peru Gladkov's music belongs to such famous films, like “Gentlemen of Fortune”, “The Man from the Boulevard des Capuchins”, “Kill the Dragon”, and many others.
The songs of another author, Yuri Entin, are known even to the youngest viewers and listeners, because these are familiar words from “The Adventures of Buratino”, “The Adventures of Electronics”, “Dunno from Our Yard”. And what is “Beautiful Far Away” worth - after all, this is also the brainchild of a talented author. And now to his merits were added the texts of those who sing in “The Bremen Town Musicians” - a cartoon of all times.
How many episodes are in the cartoon?
There are only three of them, because there is no point in creating endless series in order to remain in the viewer’s memory: it is better to shine once as a bright star and leave a mark in the heart forever.
- "Musicians of Bremen" (created in 1969).
- "In the footsteps Bremen Town Musicians"(1973).
- "New Bremen Town Musicians" (2000).
This year, the favorite Russian cartoon “The Town Musicians of Bremen” turns 40 years old. In this musical fairy tale More than one generation has grown up, and the cartoon has not received a single award. The fairy tale broke all records for the number of records sold, but it was criticized and accused of the “corruptive influence of the West.”
Not original performance
The script for the cartoon was written in the 60s by the actor who later created the most popular image of Sherlock Holmes, Vasily Livanov and songwriter Yuri Entin. Composer Gennady Gladkov worked on the cartoon, and the director was Inessa Kovalevskaya (future director of the cartoons “How the Lion Cub and the Turtle Sang a Song,” “Caterok,” “Scarecrow-Meow,” etc.). The basis was taken from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Town Musicians of Bremen".
“We were horrified by this fairy tale,” the portal tvcenter.ru quotes Kovalevskaya as saying. “Well, what kind of plot is this: four retired animals roam the world, meet robbers, scare them and settle in their house?! But that’s not yet filmed, and the heroes are musicians! That’s why we decided to work on this material.”
“When I came to Vasily Livanov, I simply accidentally wrote one poem: “As you know, we are a hot people,” Yuri Entin said in an interview with the portal KM.Ru. “I read it to him at first as a joke, and also said, that I read the fairy tale “The Town Musicians of Bremen”, but I didn’t understand anything from it: the young owners drove four pensioners out onto the street, not knowing where. They decided to go to Bremen to become musicians. On the way they met a den of robbers, they made it there. pyramid<…>With the help of this pyramid, they dispersed the robbers and began to live on their stolen gold. That's the whole piece for you."
Vasily Livanov had more experience than Entin. By that time, he had published several collections of fairy tales, which Marshak himself praised. Livanov introduced the images of the Troubadour and the King. Composer Gladkov, in turn, noted that love is needed in a fairy tale - this is how the fate of the Princess was decided.
As a result, a completely new work was created: new characters became the main ones, and the plot revolved around them. All that remains from the original is the name.
The script was written quickly, it was immediately sent to Soyuzmultfilm, and a few days later the cartoon was put into production.
First, it was decided to record a soundtrack for the future cartoon, and then draw the characters.
The roles were distributed as follows: Oleg Anofriev was supposed to sing for the Troubadour, Zoya Kharabadze, the lead singer of the “Accord” quartet, for the Princess, the rest of the “Accord” members for the musicians, and Zinovy Gerdt for the Atamansha. The phonogram was supposed to be recorded at the Melodiya studio, which was constantly busy, so the recording was scheduled for twelve at night.
“And so we come to the recording, but our artists are not there,” recalls Yuri Entin. “At the appointed time, only Oleg Anofriev, who lived next to Melodiya, showed up and came to say that he could not record because he had a high temperature. Gerdt immediately called: he had miscalculated somewhere at the party and had drunk a lot, saying, reschedule the recording. Then the guys from Accord called with the same request. But we couldn’t reschedule the work and decided to do it on our own. to the studio of our friends: poet Anatoly Gorokhov (he wrote the lines from the song “Our service is both dangerous and difficult...”) and singer Elmira Zherzdev.”
As a result, Elmira Zherzdeva became the Princess, Anatoly Gorokhov sang for all the musicians (he owns the famous donkey “E! E-e! E-e!” And Anofriev sang for all the other characters, including the Atamansha. When he asked Inessa Kovalevskaya asked what kind of Atamansha she wanted to see, and she answered, “Well, something like Faina Ranevskaya!” And Anofriev sang to Ranevskaya.
“I remember I was so excited when they were recording the phonogram that I offered to sing for the Princess,” recalls Oleg Anofriev. “Well, I could do it! By the way, Gennady Gladkov also sang in the cartoon: in the general choir and in the guards’ song.” -oh secret!" - this is his voice. When we finished work in the morning, I measured the temperature, but it turned out to be normal. This is the great power of art!"
The recording of the musical finished at five in the morning. According to Gennady Gladkov in an interview with Literary Russia, sound engineer Viktor Babushkin did an excellent job: “He did an incredible thing: he was able to make an excellent recording using rather primitive equipment. A wizard!”
Artist Max Zherebchevsky made several sketches of the characters. “Max’s troubadour turned out to be wearing a cap, like a buffoon, which I absolutely didn’t like,” the director recalls. “Once I was leafing through a foreign magazine and saw there a blond man with a Beatles hairstyle in jeans. I showed the photo to the artist, and immediately our future Troubadour has arisen."
And they “put it on” the Princess Wedding Dress wife of Yuri Entin. “The same red dress that you see in the cartoon, I bought her for 40 rubles, she wore it at the wedding,” the portal bibigon.ru quotes Yuri Entin as saying. “And Gladkov and Livanov were our witnesses.”
The robbers in this cartoon were copied from the most popular trinities in the seventies: Vitsin, Morgunov and Nikulin.
In the light
“Before it was released, the record with the Bremen Town Musicians lay for 9 months like a child at the Melodiya recording studio. It was there that I worked as an editor,” the videoblock.info portal cites Yuri Entin’s memories. “The director’s signature was needed. I took advantage of official position and... A record with “The Town of Bremen” “slipped” onto the counter when the director was on vacation. Then a cartoon appeared.<…>There was so much noise! My wife still remembers the artistic council, at which the Bremen Town Musicians were dismantled piece by piece. Composer Rostislav Boyko called our musical “marijuana for children,” and Natalya Sats said with indignation that Tikhon Khrennikov sold only 3 million copies, and “The Bremen Town Musicians” sold 28 million records, which indicates the approaching collapse of the country.”
The Ministry of Culture received angry letters - “How can children sing about robbers and the dead?!”
Especially, as Yuri Entin told the newspaper "Arguments and Facts", in "The Bremen Town Musicians" the editors were confused by two phrases: "We must protect the Majesty from all sorts of unnecessary meetings" and "For us, tempting vaults of palaces will never replace freedom."
By the way, there is even a story about how Oleg Anofriev, speaking at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, sang this second phrase, while circling his arms around the entire palace and pointing to the government stands. It is believed that after this the actor got into trouble, and they even “had a conversation” with him.
But director Inessa Kovalevskaya suffered the most. She was not even accepted into the Union of Cinematographers - “for unprofessional video production.” Not without the stamp “corruptive influence of the West,” writes the portal sestrenka.ru.
“Despite all the stones that were thrown into our garden, I remember that time with tenderness,” says Yuri Entin. “Back then we took criticism very painfully, but now...”
Despite the criticism that fell on the cartoon, despite the fact that it did not receive a single award, “The Bremen Town Musicians” gained stunning popularity. Songs from it became real hits.
Next
Four years later, in 1973, a continuation of the cartoon appeared - “In the footsteps of the Bremen Town Musicians.” The creators of the first cartoon did not even think about the second series, but the Soyuzmultfilm studio received a telegram signed by the director of the Barrikady cinema, where cartoons were shown at that time, that a continuation was required. Kovalevskaya refused to film the second episode, and Livanov himself acted as director.
“At first we had no idea what to write about,” recalls Yuri Entin, “but then it dawned on me that since the princess ran away, there must be a hired detective whom the king equipped to search for his daughter. I wrote four lines and decided to read them to Livanov and Gladkov. They were skeptical and asked: “Well, what else did you come up with?” I said that the second episode begins with the king sitting, pressing a button, a brilliant detective appears and the song sounds:
I am a brilliant detective
I don't need help
I can even find a pimple
On... near the elephant."
“They were silent for a minute, looking at me with completely crazy eyes,” continues the songwriter, “And then we all just became hysterical, and we started laughing wildly. And we composed a sequel.”
The main characters in the new cartoon were slightly redrawn and “re-voiced”.
“Since some time had passed, we decided to make the Troubadour more mature, more baritone - for which we invited Magomayev,” Gennady Gladkov told the newspaper “Zavtra”. Another reason why in the second part Magomayev sang for the Troubadour, according to the composer, that Anofriev “was a little capricious, he didn’t like something...”
By the way, Gennady Gladkov himself sang for the King in the second series of adventures of Troubadour and his friends - it happened by accident. “Muslim Magomayev was supposed to sing, but he was absent at that moment, and I filled the temporary void in the phonogram. And he listened and said: “I like the way Gladkov sings.” And they left it that way,” says the composer.
Brezhnev musicians?
The cartoon “In the Footsteps of the Bremen Town Musicians” was also not without “revelations”.
“...In the Troubadour they saw Elvis Presley, in these four little animals - the Beatles,” says Gladkov. “Even if there were elements of parody, it was friendly, personal. Not satire, but soft humor. But at that time of total prohibitions, even parody was perceived too Seriously, it was still a breakthrough."
The most scandalous speculation about the cartoon was the assumption that “the hysterical daughter” is a direct allusion to Galina Brezhneva, and by the King, accordingly, Brezhnev is meant.
In those years, the daughter of the Secretary General was already notorious due to her eccentric behavior and numerous novels. Her first love and first husband was circus artist Evgeny Milaev. In the Chisinau circus, an acrobat carried a pyramid of a dozen people. When the circus left, twenty-year-old Galina also left with the circus (having left the university). This marriage lasted 8 years.
Galina Brezhneva's second love was Igor Kio, the son of the famous illusionist Emil Renard. When they met, she was 32 years old and he was 18 years old. 9 days after the “hasty” wedding, the head of the regional police department and the head of the passport office came to the newlyweds, they took Galina away under escort. The marriage was annulled as illegal.
She also had an affair with the famous dancer Maris Liepa, who was 11 years younger than her. Already married to a policeman named Churbanov, she began a relationship with a gypsy actor, soloist of the Romen Theater Boris Buryatse.
However, the portal “Art of Cinema” writes, in one of his interviews Gennady Gladkov said about the cartoon this way: “We wrote it for ourselves - it was interesting for us!<…>We laughed and fooled around. It was something of a skit for themselves. For us it was just a joke, but everyone else said: this is a parody of this, this is a hint of something else<…>Appeared almost new profession- to look for something where there was nothing."
Any roads
All this time, “The Town Musicians of Bremen” lived not only in the cartoon, but also on stage. “We decided to stage the play “Troubadour and His Friends” based on the cartoon on the stage of the Leningrad Lensovet Theater,” says Gennady Gladkov. “The premiere caused a real storm in the hall.<…>Each number was accompanied by applause, and the final song was generally sung several times. And together with the public. The success was incredible."
“In the play based on The Town Musicians of Bremen, I think the entire cast of the Lensovet Theater outperformed,” the composer continues. “There was even a small incident with Alisa Freundlich. We felt that there was no suitable role for such a great actress, but she was offended. Then she played the role of Atamansha."
The first performer of the Troubadour on theater stage was Mikhail Boyarsky. The princess in the musical fairy tale was played by Larisa Luppian, who soon became the actor’s wife.
In 2000, the third cartoon appeared - "New Bremen", the scriptwriters of which were also Vasily Livanov and Yuri Entin, and the composer was Gennady Gladkov. The stars sing for the heroes in New Bremenskie Russian stage: for the Troubadour - Philip Kirkorov, for the King - Mikhail Boyarsky, for the Atamansha - Nadezhda Babkina, etc.
Also in 2000, Alexander Abdulov, who played everyone from Donkey to Troubadour in Lenkomov’s “The Bremen Town Musicians,” directed the musical film “The Bremen Town Musicians & Co” as a director, a fairy tale based on the cartoon by Yuri Entin and Vasily Livanov. Starring: Mikhail Pugovkin, Oleg Yankovsky, Leonid Yarmolnik, Alexander Abdulov, Semyon Farada, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Alexander Zbruev, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan and others.
Housing problem
For many Russians, the Bremen Town Musicians is, above all, soviet cartoons. Therefore, it is not surprising that not everyone remembers what we're talking about in the original source - the fairy tale of the Brothers Grimm.
In the original, a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, abandoned by their owners, go to Bremen to live there street musicians. On the way in the forest, they see a house of robbers, by cunning they drive them away and settle in it themselves.
The material was prepared by the online editors of www.rian.ru based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources
Before we find out who voiced the Bremen Town Musicians, let's read a little about what the cartoon itself is about.
The cartoon tells about a group of bosom musician friends: Cat, Donkey, Rooster, Dog and the young Troubadour. They travel around the fairy kingdom on a cart and entertain ordinary people with your songs. Their life is joyful and devoid of all worries.
But one day the Troubadour meets a charming Princess and falls in love with her. With the help of his friends, he decides to win the girl's heart. But the King will never allow his daughter to love ordinary musician. Therefore, Troubadour decides on a desperate act, from which his adventures will begin, full of fun, danger and wonderful songs.
This story, which has already become a classic, with young age everyone knows. Its plot is simple, but funny and touching, revealing the eternal themes of love and true friendship.
The cartoon owes much of its cult status to its wonderful dubbing actors. It was they who endowed the characters with bright personalities, making them colorful and memorable.
Who voiced the cartoon The Town Musicians of Bremen
Made a huge contribution to the creation of the cartoon talented actor Oleg Anofriev, who voiced almost all the characters in the film. Initially, he was supposed to voice only the Troubadour, and other outstanding artists of that time were invited to play the role of the remaining characters. However, due to various circumstances- due to being busy with other projects, as well as for personal reasons, no one showed up for the recording at the appointed time except Anofriev. Ultimately, Oleg Andreevich had to voice not only the main character, but also others.
An equally important role was played by the wonderful singer Anatoly Gorokhov, who was urgently called to record the cartoon. He gave his voice to the entire troupe of Bremen musicians: Donkey, Dog, Cat and Rooster.
But the list of dubbing actors would be incomplete without Elmira Zherzdeva and Gennady Gladkov.
Elmira Sergeevna superbly performed the role of the Princess, although she had to voice her first main character wanted Andrey Anofriev.
Gennady Igorevich, being also the composer of the cartoon, played the role of the King. And although this hero is mostly silent, the audience loved him so much that in the continuation of the musical “In the Footsteps of the Bremen Town Musicians” he even received a full-fledged musical number, which was also performed by Gladkov.
- Script: Yu. Entin, V. Livanov
- Director: I. Kovalevskaya
- Lyrics: Yu. Entin
- Composer: G. Gladkov
- The roles were voiced by: O. Anofriev, E. Zherzdeva, A. Gorokhov.
Second series
- Script: Yu. Entin, V. Livanov
- Director: V. Livanov
- Lyrics: Yu. Entin
- Composer: G. Gladkov
- The roles were voiced by: M. Magomaev, E. Zherzdeva, A. Gorokhov.
Who voiced the Bremen Town Musicians?
The script with freedom-loving and even hooligan habits was approved quite quickly, since the basis of the plot was fairy tale of the same name Brothers Grimm. The unusual format of the musical, characters dressed in Western fashion and wonderful songs “a la rock and roll” made this cartoon incredibly popular. The first episode was released in 1969.
Director Inessa Kovalevskaya recalled that she was horrified when she saw the first version of the script. And I immediately decided to film this disgrace, only slightly altering the plot. This “slightly” brought the main character, Troubadour, into the cartoon, proposed by screenwriter Vasily Livanov. And composer Gennady Gladkov suddenly declared that there is no good fairy tale without love: this is how the Princess appeared. Well, what is a princess without a palace and a father-king? And what kind of king is without security!
One for all
Such a number of characters had to be voiced by several people: talented, famous and busy. At that time, the recording schedule at the Melodiya studio was very tight, and the dubbing of the cartoon, shot by a little-known director, was scheduled for midnight. Almost everyone didn’t come to the recording due to various reasons. good reasons. Only Oleg Anofriev appeared in the studio, and only to report his illness. The deadlines were running out, and they began to persuade the singer to start work immediately. Anofriev tried it, got involved, and himself offered to voice all the other characters, including the Princess. But the women's party was designed for lyric soprano, so Gladkov urgently invited a fellow student to record Elmira Zherzdev. Eventually Anofriev voiced the Troubadour, the Chieftain, the robbers and the guards. Who voiced the Bremen Town Musicians? The donkey, the dog, the cat, the rooster were taken over by the poet Anatoly Gorokhov, friend of Entin. Said several “royal” remarks Gladkov.
History repeats itself
In 1973, the second series was published: “In the footsteps of the Bremen Town Musicians.” Vasily Livanov became the director, since Kovalevskaya was not interested in continuing the work.
Despite the success of the first episode, the creators of the cartoon did not want to invite Anofriev to voice several characters. For two reasons: firstly, in that case it was done out of despair, and secondly, Anofriev began to be capricious. As a result, the same thing happened as the first time: several main roles were performed by another famous talented singer, Muslim Magomaev. Troubadour, Detective and Atamansha sing in his voice. As in the first episode, the Princess was voiced by Zherzdeva, and the King - Gladkov.
Who voiced the Bremen musicians, robbers and courtiers in the second series? There was a hitch with these characters: according to Entin, their parts were recorded by VIA Pesnyary. But upon listening, it turned out that Mulyavin’s too “Slavic” accent did not suit the “Western” style of the cartoon. As a result, these parts were voiced Leonid Berger, former soloist VIA "Jolly Guys". But since the singer was going to emigrate, his last name was removed from the credits. Instead, the surname Gorokhov is indicated, as in the first episode.
