Re: [ARSCLIST] Soviet Recordings: More Questions

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi:

I think the Mercury 1962 recordings qualify, particularly the balalaika recording -- that was so 
native-Soviet that the recording crew had no idea what to expect and no pre-planned program 
happened. Those guys just showed up, got set up and played songs called out by their director. And 
the LP I linked to sold in the "cutout bin" at Music Direct. That's a Smithsonian Folkways recording 
of Soviet performers at a U.S. folk festival in 1989.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Natalie Zelensky" <nzelensky@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:33 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Soviet Recordings: More Questions


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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