Re: [ARSCLIST] Soviet Recordings: More Questions

[Thomas Stern <sternth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please clarify "SOVIET SONGS"
 patriotic, folk, popular, propagandist, classical?
 instrumental music?
Does your inquiry extend to:
 pre-revolution (1917) recordings?
 Russian/USSR performers recorded OUTSIDE  Russia/USSR?
 Soviet sourced records pressed or imported to countries other than the 
USA?
 "Soviet Bloc" recordings? (non-Russian)
What is the reason for your research?
Thanks, Thomas.



Natalie Zelensky wrote:

> Dear ARSC-memebers,
>
> Thanks so much for your responses -- they have brought me closer to unveiling this mystery.  Your answers have spawned several more questions, which I am hoping you can answer:
>
> Do you know whether or not the records imported for the 1939 World's Fair were the first Soviet records imported to the US?  If not, does anyone know definitively which were the first?  
>
> Does anyone know the label names of the 1939 World's Fair records of Soviet music and/or the repertoire contained on these records?    
>
> Does anyone know which came first: records from the Soviet Union, or US made (or pressed) records of Soviet songs?  Record labels for either?
>
> For the record (pardon the pun), I am trying to find information regarding recordings of  Soviet music in the US, including both imported and those made/pressed in the US. 
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Natalie
>
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> > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:05:33 -0500
> > From: dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Soviet Recordings
> > To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > There's no one "World's Fair" recording..lots of titles were exported over here 
> > with those labels in 1939 (although my understanding is that the records came 
> > but the Russians didn't, because of impending war). Once those pressings were 
> > sold off, Stinson Trading Corp. had new masters dubbed from them and continued 
> > to sell them as US pressings.
> >
> > I'm sure others will have lots to add..Mike Biel, where are you?
> >
> > dl
> >
> > Natalie Zelensky wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Hello, 
> > >
> > > I am trying to gather information on the early distribution of Soviet recordings in the US.
> > >
> > > 1.  What was the first recording of Soviet songs that was released in the US? (year?; label? contents?) 
> > >
> > > 2.  I also am trying to find more information regarding subsequent distribution of recordings of Soviet songs in the US.  (Labels?; History?; Would the companies simply copy from eachother and resell under their respective labels?).  Based on my research in American and Russian-American papers, it appears that Stinson and the "Am-Rus Music Corporation" were the first distributors of these records - is this true?  Does anyone know anything else about this "Am-Rus" company?  
> > >
> > > 3.  Could anyone tell me more about the "World's Fair" recording.  (Year?; Contents?; Performers?).  
> > >
> > > 4.  Does anyone have any suggestions for sources about early Soviet recordigs in the US?
> > >
> > > Thank you very much.
> > >
> > > N. Zelensky
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