[78-L] record siting in the movies

[Kristjan Saag]

Oh, dear.
Got things mixed up.
No, it was not the U2incident that wasthe case here: the story was about 
a wartime situation. If the pilot was shot it must have been by mistake; 
heprobably hadengin trouble. So the fact hat he was treated well wasnot 
a big surprise. The Capitol disc was, though.
Kristjan

(BTW: Who won the war? Wasn't it the Chinese?)




On 2013-03-22 12:06, Julian Vein wrote:
> On 22/03/13 10:50, Kristjan Saag wrote:
>> I think I've mentioned this before, but watching a Russian theatre
>> performance in Gothenburg some years ago - the play was about an
>> American soldier shot down over Siberia during WW II and how he,
>> surprisingly, was treated well by the village people and even had a love
>> affair with one of them - I was even more surprised to see the villagers
>> playing a Capitol label 78 on the horn gramophone.
>> As the import of US popular records to this part of Russia probably was
>> minimal at the time the pilot must have managed a really soft landing
>> with his parachute and its musical content.
>> Don't remember the tune, though.
>> Kristjan
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> How would an American soldier (airman?) get to a position of being shot
> down in Siberia during WW2? I thought Russia was an ally? Perhaps they
> were using the Gary Powers-U2 incident as a storyline?
>
>        Julian Vein
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