Tampa Red & Willie B. James - Seminole Blues (1937)
Tampa Red is best known as an accomplished and influential blues guitarist who had a unique single-string bottleneck style. His songwriting and his silky, polished slide technique influenced other leading Chicago blues guitarists, such as Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk, as well as Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mose Allison and many others.
Tampa Red & Willie B. James - Seminole Blues (1937)
Tampa Red is best known as an accomplished and influential blues guitarist who had a unique single-string bottleneck style. His songwriting and his silky, polished slide technique influenced other leading Chicago blues guitarists, such as Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Nighthawk, as well as Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Mose Allison and many others.
Zis 101 Sport (one or two made) was a two-seater version of a the zis 101 limousine derived from a reversed engineered Buick.
Katyusha is a Russian folk-based songand military march composed by Matvey Blanter in 1938, with lyrics written by the Soviet poet Mikhail Isakovsky. It gained fame during World War II as a patriotic song, inspiring the population to serve and defend their land in the war effort
It is Zil 111 1958 / ’62 by Kherson Models. Kherson did an entire range of Russian Limousines and sedans (and the iconic 1930 Buick). I'm not sure of the present situation, and - as we all are - am saddened to watch recent news. Hopefully, when things are resolved The Ukraine's model car industry will ramp-up production anew, but I doubt they'll be producing Zils for a while!
2) We then have a Zil 111G 1962 / ’67 IXO Est 3) Then - among my favourite cars ever - Zil 114 1967 / ’78 DIP Models 4) Zil 41047 1985 / 2002 IXO Est
The recording is by the original Red Army Choir as conducted by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov (his son took the helm later but his 'sound' lacks the spirit - in my view - of the earlier ensemble). I listen to this stuff on Molodiya records and the sound is spectacular - literally.
