Arkady (Avraam) Il'ich Ostrovsky (also spelled Ostrovskij, Ostrovskyj russian: Аркадий (Авраам) Ильич Островский) (February 25 O.S. February 12">Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. February 12/small>, 1914 – September 18, 1967) was a Soviet Russian composer of light music, the author of the song ''May There Always Be Sunshine'' and other Soviet songs of the 1960s, including the lullaby of ''Spokoynoy nochi, malyshi!, Good Night, Little Ones'', the children's TV program aired for nearly 60 years, most famous rendition sung by

Oleg Anofriyev Oleg Andreyevich Anofriyev (sometimes spelled Anofriev, russian: link=no, Олег Андреевич Анофриев; 20 July 193028 March 2018), PAR, was a Soviet and Russian theatreРусский драматический театр: Энци ...

Life

Ostrovsky was born to a Jewish family in

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. From 1927 on, he lived in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. He worked in

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's Jazz Orchestra from 1940 to 1947 and composed his first works. He died in Sochi in 1967. In 2004, Ostrovsky got a star posthumously on the

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in Moscow.

Internet meme

In 2009, a 1976 video of singer

Eduard Khil Eduard Anatolyevich Khil ( rus, Эдуа́рд Анато́льевич Хиль, , ɨdʊˈart ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈxʲilʲ; 4 September 1934 – 4 June 2012), often anglicized as Edward Hill, was a Soviet-Russian baritone singer. Khil be ...

singing Ostrovsky's

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''I am very glad, because I’m finally going home'' (Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой) was uploaded to

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and quickly became an

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known as "Trololololololololololo." The song itself was written by Ostrovsky, and was also performed by

Valery Obodzinsky Valery Vladimirovich Obodzinsky (russian: Вале́рий Влади́мирович Ободзи́нский; 24 January 1942 – 26 April 1997) was a Soviet and Russian singer (tenor), a holder of the title of Meritorious Artist Mari Autonomou ...

and by Muslim Magomayev on

Little Blue Light The ''Little Blue Light'' (russian: Голубой огонёк, ''Goluboy ogonyok'') was a popular musical variety show aired on Soviet television since 1962 during various holidays. The name alludes to the light bluish glare of a black-and-wh ...

. Ostrovsky's son, Mikhail, is quoted as saying:

Hootenanny Singers

Ostrovsky is the author of dozens of popular songs in the post-Soviet countries. For example he is author of music for the song "Let there always be sunshine", which was "taken" under the name of 'Gabriel' into repertoire of the swedish band 'Hootenanny Singer' without specifying the author. In Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFhphQcHpUY In English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKskFdD-0Fk

External links

memorial site
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