Chubchik (song)
"Chubchik", also "Curly chubchik" is a Russian folk blatnaya pesnya of unknown authorship. It was performed by many famous Russian singers, both in Russia ang in Russian diaspora, with varying lyrics, the most notable version belonging to Pyotr Leshchenko.
It is a song about a dashing thief with curly chubchik, who ended up in Siberia. The approximate time of the origin of the song may be deduced from the fact that it mentions the jury trial, which existed in Russia from 1866 until the Russian Revolution of 1917.
Notable performers
- Munia Serebroff, "Chupchik", a Brunswick record 51913-В, New York 1927, the earliest known recorded version
- , 1930
- Pyotr Leshchenko, 1933; he performed it much earlier
- Alexander Malinin
- Willi Tokarev
- Viktor Korolev
- Pelageya and Garik Sukachov duo