Zerkalo dushi

Zerkalo dushi (Russian: Зеркало души; transl. The Mirror Of The Soul) is the debut studio album by Russian soviet singer Alla Pugacheva released in the USSR in February 1978 (as double album). Later the album was released as two separate records.

Zerkalo dushi
Studio album by
Alla Pugacheva
ReleasedFebruary 1978
Recorded1975—1977
GenrePop, art rock, blues rock, funk
LanguageRussian
LabelMelodiya
Alla Pugacheva chronology
Zerkalo dushi
(1978)		 Arlekino i drugiye
(1979)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Muzykalnaya zhiznfavourable[1]

The album includes songs mainly composed by Aleksandr Zatsepin. The album also includes three songs composed by Alla Pugacheva (under the pseudonym "Boris Gorbonos") two songs with music by Boris Rychkov and Mark Minkov.

The record became one of the best-selling in the USSR in the late 1970s and early 1980s. By 1983 it sold more than 7 753 500 copies of the album. The total circulation of the album, including all reissues, is close to 10 million. The album was also released abroad in Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Spain.

Background
Alla Pugacheva and Vesyolye Rebyata in Yaroslavl in 1975

Since 1965 Alla Pugacheva begins her concert activity. In 1965 she went on the first tour in her life, it was a concert trip with mosestrada in the program "Bang-Bang, or Satirical shots at misses", and in 1967 as part of the propaganda team of the radio station "Yunost" on a tour of the Arctic And Tyumen. After graduating from the music school, she became a soloist of the Rosconcert and a concertmaster at the State School of Circus and Variety Art (GUTSEI), and than stood soloist of the VIA Novy electron at the Lipetsk regional Philharmonic. During the following years, Pugacheva worked in VIA Moskvichi in the Moscow regional Philharmonic in a jazz orchestra conducted by Oleg Lundstrom. In 1974 for her performance of the songs "Posidim, pookayem" and "Ermolova s Chistykh prudov", she was awarded the third prize at the Fifth all-Union competition of pop artists. In 1974-1976 she was a soloist of VIA Vesyolye Rebyata. In 1975 at the Golden Orpheus festival Pugacheva was awarded the Grand Prix for her performance of the song "Arlekino". This victory made her popular in the USSR and abroad. Later that year she released her first solo EP. After leaving the Vesyolye Rebyata in 1976, Pugacheva was briefly a soloist of the State variety orchestra of Armenia under the baton of Konstantin Orbelian. In 1977, having started a solo career, she was accompanied by VIA Rhythm from the Kharkov regional Philharmonic. In 1978, at the competition "Intervision Song Contest" in Sopot (Poland), the singer was awarded the Grand Prix for the performance of the song "Vsyo mogut koroli". Songs performed by her at that time were very often heard on radio and broadcast on television, but there was no solo album until 1978.

Track listing
Side one
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Бубен шамана" ("Buben shamana" (trans."Witch Doctor's Tambourine"))Leonid DerbenyovAleksandr Zatsepin6:58
2."Верю в тебя" ("Veryu v tebya" (trans. "I Believe In You"))Onegin GagigasimovAleksandr Zatsepin4:52
3."Сонет 90" ("Sonet 90" (trans. "Sonnet 90")William Shakespeare
Samuil Marshak (translation)		Boris Gorbonos3:20
Side two
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
4."Приезжай" ("Priezhaj" (trans. "Come"))Boris GorbonosBoris Gorbonos5:41
5."Не отрекаются любя" ("Ne otrekayutsya lyubya" (trans. "Those Who Love Don't Renounce"))Veronika TushnovaMark Minkov4:08
6."Песенка про меня" ("Pesenka pro menya" (trans. "A Song About Me"))Leonid DerbenyovAleksandr Zatsepin3:33
7."Женщина, которая поёт" ("Zhenschina, kotoraya poyot" (trans. "The Woman Who Sings"))Kaisyn Kuliev
Naum Grebnev (translation)		Boris Gorbonos
Leonid Garin		4:13
Side three
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
8."Всё могут короли" ("Vsyo mogut koroli" (trans. "King Can Do Everything"))Leonid DerbenyovBoris Rychkov3:02
9."Куда уходит детство" ("Kuda ukhodit detstvo" (trans. "Where Childehood Goes"))Leonid DerbenyovAleksandr Zatsepin4:50
10."Волшебник-недоучка" ("Volshebnik-nedouchka" (trans. "A Half-Trained Wizard"))Leonid DerbenyovAleksandr Zatsepin3:19
11."Полно вокруг мудрецов" ("Polno vokrug mudretsov" (trans. "There Are Lots Of Wise Man Around"))Leonid DerbenyovAleksandr Zatsepin4:31
Side four
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
12."Мы не любим друг друга" ("My ne lyubim drug druga" (trans. "We Don't Love Each Other"))Leonid DerbenyovAleksandr Zatsepin3:33
13."Если долго мучиться" ("Yesli dolgo muchitsya" (trans. "If One Suffers Too Long"))Leonid DerbenyovAleksandr Zatsepin2:44
14."До свиданья, лето" ("Do svidanya, leto" (trans. "Goodbye, summer"))Leonid DerbenyovAleksandr Zatsepin4:34
15."Любовь одна виновата" ("Lyubov odna vinovata" (trans. "Love Only Is To Blame"))Leonid DerbenyovAleksandr Zatsepin3:16
16."Найди себе друга" ("Najdi sebe druga" (trans. "Find A Friend Foe Yourself"))Leonid DerbenyovAleksandr Zatsepin2:34

Charts
Notes
  1. "Zerkalo dushi-1".
  2. "Zerkalo dushi-2".
  3. "Zerkalo dushi-1". Scored 772 points (for comparison: the 1st-place album of the group ABBA scored 815 points.
  4. "Zerkalo dushi-1". Scored 401 points.
  5. Scored 3,989 points (for comparison: the 2nd-place album of the group Pesnyary scored 431 points; "Zerkalo dushi" in total collected more points than the all next 20 albums in the list.

References
  1. N. Zavadskaya (1978). "Алла Пугачева "Зеркало души"" (in Russian). Музыкальная жизнь. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  2. Razzakov 2003.
  3. Razzakov 2003, p. 79.
  4. Razzakov 2003, p. 80.
  5. Razzakov 2003, p. 117.
  6. Razzakov 2003, p. 84.
  7. "Музыкальная пластинка за 1978 год" (in Russian) (5) (Журнал «Клуб и художественная самодеятельность» ed.). May 1979. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  8. Razzakov 2003, p. 102.

Bibliography
  • Razzakov F. (2003) [Алла Пугачёва: По ступеням славы]. Alla Pugacheva: On the steps of glory (PDF). Moscow: Eksmo. ISBN 5-8153-0059-4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-01.
  • Boris Savchenko (1992) [Дорогая Алла Борисовна...]. Dear Alla Borisovna... Moscow: Znaniye. p. 25.
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