The Mighty Handful (Moguchaya Kuchka / Могучая Кучка in Russian), better known as The Five in English-speaking countries, was a label applied in 1867 by the critic Vladimir Stasov to a loose collection of Russianclassicalcomposers brought together under the leadership of Mily Balakirev with the aim of producing a specifically Russian music rather than imitating older European music.
The other members of The Five were César Cui, Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Before them, Mikhail Glinka had gone some way towards producing a distinctly Russian kind of music, writing operas on Russian subjects, but The Mighty Handful represented the first concentrated attempt to develop such a music.
Before flower power, the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane it meant harmonic vocals, a melding of accoustic and electric guitars, folk music, rock and a bit of jazz.
In the mid-60's, it was called folk rock, and it described the music of WE FIVE.
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As a radio DJ and programmer for about 35 years, this is easily the most repetitive, nonsensical, insincere and insulting (to the listener) song I have ever heard to this date.
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