For those who wonder what Russians sing besides the Volga Boatman and Ochi Chernyia, Vasili Pavlovich Solovyev-Sedoi, Russia’s top Tin Pan Alley man, has the answer. Sedoi’s simple, easy-to-hum ...

Don’t be a moron, idiot. “The Song of the Volga Boatmen” is a folk song from the Volga River Valley in western Russia. The song is a recurring theme in The Volga Boatmen, Cecil B. DeMille’s first ...

Donald J. Stubblebine Collection of Musical Theater and Motion Picture Music and Ephemera, 1866-2009, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Donald J.

Borrowing from your own, or some other nation’s, storehouse of folk music is an old composer’s trick. Dvorak and Puccini used U.S. tunes. Tchaikovsky not only reworked Russia’s own Song of the Volga ...

Bill Finegan obituary: The obituary of arranger Bill Finegan in Monday’s California section gave the name of composer Stefan Wolpe as Stan Wolpe. The title of the tune “Song of the Volga Boatmen” was ...

A camp of Russian gypsies, dancing and playing music. After an opening dance, a quartet of beer-drinkers gargles the Volga Boatman song, then another group hauling on a rope sings it (we finally see ...