Аркадий Северный c анс. Братья Жемчужные — «Софка прыгает и скачет»
Ленинград, 1976 (из концерта «Проститука Буреломова»)
Arkadiy Severniy with Zhemchuzhnie Brothers — «Sofka jumping and skipping»
Leningrad, USSR 1976
Arkadiy Severniy (real surename — Zvezdin) — the popular Leningrad (St. Petersburg) singer, the great Russian chansonnier, the famous underground bard, «king» of a street-song (prison-folk song). He was very popular in Soviet Union in 1970-1980 because of extraordinary style of performance forbidden lyric`s and prison's songs. All recordings were made unofficially on private flats. Arkadiy died from heavy alchogolism in 1980.