[78-L] Got a strange "Foreign" record

[David Lennick]

The label is called "Melodiya" and probably looks like what's here:
http://www.melody.su/eng/

There might be an online listing somewhere.

dl

Jim Whipkey wrote:
> My auction  attendance has turned up something which sounds great, but  my
> language skills are totally lacking.  I  bought a few records  at an auction
> this week and one is  in a foreign language,  which I would guess to be
> Russian, only because  some of the letters are backward and  that's  what
> little I know about Russian.  It's  wonderful sounding  33 1/3 LP,  the
> music  makes me  think of Fiddler on the Roof, or  something of that ilk,
> except  more pure.   Nothing is in anything which resembles English, it was
> in a paper sleeve, red,black and green.  The best I can describe the label
> name is  to type   the letters which  are closest to my US English
> keyboard.   M E A O A N R.   The third letter is an upside down V, the 5th
> letter is  like a greek Delta,  the  N and R at the end are reversed.   Is
> this enough for anyone to hazard a guess on what I have?  There are 6
> musical selections on one side,  6 on the other.
> The only clue I have to its possible origin is the auction included   items
> from an estate sale from a resident who was Jewish, lived in New Jersey in
> the 60s, and  died in northern WVA, where his effects were  sold.
> Jim Whipkey
>