Hey, O.K ( uk, Гей, любо) is an album by the band
Vopli Vidopliassova. It was released by the Ukrainian-Canadian label Kobza in 1990.
The album is not acknowledged on the band's official website.
Track list
Both tracks written by Yuri Zdorenko and Oleg Ovchar (tracks 10 and 15) are not in Russian. Normally, the tracks are sung in Russian, but here they are presented with Ukrainian titles. Track 10 is in
vocalise and track 15 is in English. Track 16 is arranged differently from the version that would later appear on ''
Hvyli Amura'' a decade later. Track 19 has a drum and guitar intro instead of the speech and the outro features Zdorenko sliding his hand over the neck.
The songs were written between 1987 and 1990.
Leaked rehearsal tape
An 8-song demo tape recorded in the Kobza Studio in 1989 circulates. The tape contains 6 of the songs plus two unreleased songs, "Ty ushel" and "Chio San". "Chio San" would later be re-recorded and released on the album ''
Chudovy svit'' in 2013, more than 20 years after the original conception of the song. "Ty ushel" was intended to be put on the tape, but was left off and later appeared in 1992 on ''
Abo abo
''Abo abo'' ( uk, Або або; en, "Either … Or") is a live album by Ukrainian rock band Vopli Vidopliassova and the band's first official release. It was released in 1992 and is taken from a concert at the Eurockéennes festival in France in ...
''. "Bili plyamy" is also arranged differently on this tape, suggesting the tape was recorded before the present arrangement of the song. The track list goes as follows:
Videos of "Zv'yazok" and "Ty ushel" from these sessions were included on the documentary "Hai zhyve VV" in 1995.
Personnel
*
Oleg Skripka
Oleh Yuriyovych Skrypka ( uk, Оле́г Ю́рійович Скри́пка, Oleh Yuriiovych Skrypka, ; born 24 May 1964) is a Ukrainian musician, vocalist, composer, and leader of the group Vopli Vidoplyasova.
Biography
Oleh Skrypka was born ...
– vocals, accordion, guitar, saxophone
*
Yuri Zdorenko Yuri may refer to:
People and fictional characters
Given name
* Yuri (Slavic name), the Slavic masculine form of the given name George, including a list of people with the given name Yuri, Yury, etc.
* Yuri (Japanese name), also Yūri, feminine J ...
– guitar, vocals, whistling
*
Aleksandr Pipa – bass, vocals
*
Sergei Sakhno
Sergius is a male given name of Ancient Roman origin after the name of the Latin ''gens'' Sergia or Sergii of regal and republican ages. It is a common Christian name, in honor of Saint Sergius, or in Russia, of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, and ...
– drums, vocals, whistling
* Engineered by Vladimir Leschenko
Cover-versions
In 2011 the band re-sung the song “
Країна мрій” (The Land of Dreams) in the Belarusian language as “Краіна мрой” for the
Budzma! Tuzin. Perazagruzka-2
Budzma! Tuzin. Perazagruzka-2 ( be, Будзьма! Тузін. Перазагрузка-2) is a compilation album by a dozen Belarusian and foreign bands and solo performers, who usually sing in Russian language, Russian, English language, Engli ...
compilation album. In 2018 the music portal
Tuzin.fm
Tuzin.fm ( be, Тузін Гітоў; ) is a private non-profit Belarusian web-portal, which was created in 2003 to cover musical creativity in Belarus. Among its objectives, the site promotes music written in Belarus and motivates to listen to ...
together with Letapis.by selected this
self-cover by
Vopli Vidopliassova in the top of “60 today’s hits in
the Belarusian language,” a list of best songs released since 1988.
References
External links
''Hey, O.K''at
Discogs.
1990 albums
Vopli Vidopliassova albums
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