Soviet TV and Difference

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

1) What's the name of that children's TV show that they would show during Soviet times every night before they would go to sleep? There was a song that was played at the end of every show, and I'm pretty sure there was a moon and stars against a blue background or something like that. There was also usually just a woman, and her puppet friends. Anyone know what I'm talking about? (Also, what's the name of the song?)

2) What's the difference between увлечение and развлечение?

Thanks!

Comments

[oryx_and_crake]

1. "Спокойной ночи, малыши". The name of the song is "Спят усталые игрушки".
2. увлечение - hobby
развлечение - entertainment

http://multitran.ru is your friend

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Wow that was quick.

And thanks for stating the difference. I usually use Lingvo, but this time the difference remained unclear.

Also, you wouldn't perhaps by any chance happen to know if they sell Спокойной ночи малыши in like a DVD box set or something of that sort, now would you?

[icamel.livejournal.com]

i don't think they do. they still run the show on россия channel.

[markushka.livejournal.com]

See link below. 4 weeks on Ozon.ru

[markushka.livejournal.com]

They definitely sell that stuff! http://yandex.ru told me that...

http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/3117226/ - 1st week

(additional 3 weeks below in "С этим товаром часто покупают" section)

It's not full set since the show runs for some decades.

[avoider.livejournal.com]

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=WDgZAch9Bk4 Theme Song
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu_q1_FSMd0 Another Song, that was used in 90s

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Just a couple of funny facts about that song -- instrumental parts are played by Melodiya, to date (1969) the hottest studio band in Soviet Union, and the great piano arabesques we can hear in the last verse are played by Melodiya's music director, Boris Frumkin, who lives now in Germany. The song was composed by Arkady Ostrovsky, the 1950s-1960s hitmaking songwriter ("Пусть всегда будет солнце", "А у нас во дворе" etc.,) lyrics written by Zoya Fyodorova. Back in the 1970s, they would play one day the currently known version with male vocals (by Oleg Anofriev,) and the female version (sung by Valentina Tolkunova) the other day. Now only Anofriev's version remains (they say that the original master tape with female vocals has been destroyed by accident, so they could not remaster it for the digital environment use.)

[spiritrc.livejournal.com]

Well, Tolkunova is still there, they could ask her to sing it again :)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Yes, but they cannot get back the band -- some are dead, some emigrated etc.

[cabarethaze.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this first link! I didn't even realize I knew it until I clicked and saw it :)

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Dude, I totally forgot about YouTube and I am eternally grateful to you for reminding me that it exists.

AWESOME!

[ex-forest-l.livejournal.com]

1) It's "Спокойной ночи, малыши", and the second channel ('Russia') still have it. It's a legendary programme, because literally everyone's been watching it for the past forty years when they were children. :) I guess the name of the song is the same as the name of the programme. If you're interested, the woman who kept talking with the puppets was Valentina Leontyeva, also a legendary Soviet time TV-persona (she had made an appearance in the very first scientific book about Soviet TV called 'Television and US' by Sappak, 1962), and she died in May this year. The blue star-moon background was created by yet another famous animation creater Norshtein, who died this August. Gosh, I never noticed they all left this year...
2) "Увлечение" is a hobby or an obsession, while "развлечение" is entertaining/entertainment.