Midnight In Moscow

"Midnight in Moscow" is the jazz name of "Podmoskovnye vechera" ("Moscow Nights"), a 1955 Soviet song by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and Mikhail Matusovsky. This page has the Midnight In Moscow chords and a backing track you can slow down, speed up and transpose.

Who wrote "Midnight In Moscow"

Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi wrote the music and Mikhail Matusovsky the Russian words in 1955. The song became famous across the Soviet Union in 1957, around the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, and is still one of the best-known Russian songs abroad.

Recordings that made it a standard

• Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen (1961) — a trad-jazz instrumental that became an international hit and gave the tune its English title.