Tag: Melodiya
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The Beatles Official Releases in the USSR
People in the USSR first learned about The Beatles in the early 1960s, at the peak of beatlemania. At that time, newspapers wrote sarcastic articles criticizing pop music. Soviet articles…
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The First Soviet Original Album Cover Art: On the Wave of My Memory (1976)
Until the 70s, Melodiya sleeves were pretty much all the same, except for a few rare ones that were sold abroad. Some were used as advertising space for Soviet monopolies,…
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The USSR’s First Pirate Compact Disc — From a Rolling Stones Fan
The first pirate CD made in the USSR was probably the “Rolling Stones — 19 Nervous Songs” (SUM 90 001) CD, which was made at Melodiya. Some sources call it…
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The “Archive of Popular Music” Series
The series started in 1987 with a little-known line called “Rock Archive,” which had just three LPs: Deep Purple — Smoke on the Water, Elton John — Your Song, and…
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Melodiya and its Plants in USSR
Most of the technically complex goods in the Soviet Union were copied from the Europeans, Americans and Japanese. In rare cases it was licensed, like Zhiguli cars, but often it…
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Soviet CD Production on Melodiya in 1990s
One of the big pluses of making records at the All-Union Enterprise “Melodiya” was that they had their own master disc recording unit. A lot of plants didn’t have the…
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MOZG: A Pioneer in Compact Disc Production in the USSR
I started at the Moscow Gramzapis Plant (MOZG) in 1978, just two months after it opened. The plant was actively hiring for different departments and labs. I already had experience…
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The First Compact Disc in the USSR — Part 2
In this series History of the first compact-disc in the USSR — Part 1 History of the first compact-disc in the USSR — Part 2 Prev part: Part 1 Back…
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The First Russian Compact Disc — Part 1: The Beginning
In this series History of the first compact-disc in the USSR — Part 1 History of the first compact-disc in the USSR — Part 2 Next part: Part 2 The…