Smile! (Vitas album)
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File:Vitas Smile! CD album cover.jpg | ||||
Studio album by Vitas | ||||
Released | 2002 | |||
Label | Iceberg, Moon |
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Vitas chronology | ||||
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Smile! (Улыбнись!, Ulybnis!) is a Russian album by Vitas (Витас), released in 2002. Several songs from this album featured in his Philosophy of Miracle concert programme, whose performance at the Kremlin earned Vitas a record as the youngest artist to perform a solo concert at the State Kremlin Palace;[1] a DVD of this concert was later released.[2]
The title track won the Russian Golden Gramophone and People's Hit awards.[1]
Good-bye was released as a single, which included 5 different mixes of the song, the tracks Ave Maria and Byelorussia, and the music video for Opera #1 from his previous album Philosophy of Miracle.[3] Good-bye is notable for Vitas' extreme bass vocals, in contrast to his more usual high-pitched vocals.[4] Blessed Guru (sometimes translated Blissful Guru) also exercises his seldom-used bass range.[5] The song titles Good-bye and Do Svidaniya (Russian: До свидания, usually listed in English as See You Later, as in the tracklisting here) can cause some confusion because the latter is often translated as Goodbye [6]
It also includes Vitas' rendition of Ave Maria by Franz Schubert with a contrasting hellish operatic ending; a shortened version without this ending was included in Vitas' 2010 compilation album Masterpieces of Three Centuries.
Track number | Russian title [7] | English title [8] | Music [9] | Lyrics [9] |
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01 | Улыбнись | Smile! | Vitas | D. Plachkovsky |
02 | Блаженный Гуру | Blessed Guru | Vitas | Vitas |
03 | Восковые фигуры | Wax Figures | Vitas | D. Plachkovsky, Vitas, S. Pudovkin |
04 | Плачет чужая тоска | Someone's Melancholy Is Crying | Vitas | D. Plachovsky |
05 | Аве Мария | Ave Maria | Franz Schubert | Traditional prayer |
06 | Холодный мир | The Cold World | V. Molchanov | D. Plachkovsky |
07 | Остров затонувших кораблей | The Island Of Sunken Ships | O. Gazmanov | E. Nebylova |
08 | Фантастические сны | Fantastic Dreams | Vitas | Vitas, D. Plachkovsky |
09 | Good-bye | Good-bye | Vitas | Vitas |
10 | Счастье | Happiness | Vitas | Vitas |
11 | Отцвели хризантемы | Chrysanthemums Have Faded Out | N. Harito | V. Shumsky |
12 | Дождь в Тбилиси | Rain in Tbilisi | Vitas | Ratner |
13 | Слепой художник | Blind Painter | Vitas | D. Plachkovsky, Vitas, S. Pudovkin |
14 | Милая музыка | Lovely Music | Vitas | Vitas |
15 | Белоруссия | Byelorussia | Alexandra Pakhmutova | N. Dobronravov |
16 | До свидания | See You Later (Do Svidaniya) | Vitas | Vitas |
References
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External links
- Official Site
- Vitas on Facebook
- Vitas' producer on Facebook
- Amazon reviews
- English translations of lyrics
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 WikiMusicGuide
- ↑ Vitas official discography: Kremlin concert
- ↑ Vitas official discography: the single Good-bye
- ↑ Asian cinema webpage
- ↑ Amazon review
- ↑ Google Translate
- ↑ Official discography tracklist: Russian
- ↑ Official discography tracklist: English
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lyrics home: authors (original languages)