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USSR X-RAY roentgen film "roentgenizdat" record.Undeveloped/ unexposed film stock10" 78 rpm, seems to be a standard groove recording, plays very well with a 3.0 mil stylusWriting on center area:Children's Rock - HaleyDifferent hand: Rockin MatildaSticker: Bill HaleyAuthentic record from the late 1950s/ early 1960s from the Soviet Union .Rockin' Matilda by Bill Haley and His Comets Written byMarie Cowan, Milt Gabler, Bill Haley, Banjo Paterson, Ruth Keefer, Catherine CafraReleased onRockin' Around the WorldAlbumMarch 17, 1958USSR X-RAY roentgen film "roentgenizdat" record.Undeveloped/ unexposed film stock10" 78 rpm, seems to be a standard groove recording, plays very well with a 3.0 mil stylusCONDITION: EXCELLENT, material is slightly wavy, but plays extremely well with great soundA GREAT EXAMPLE of a BONES RECORD bootleg recordings of music pressed on to discarded x-rays that had been banned in the USSR, lest they promote insurrectionary tendencies in listeners.Perhaps the authorities had a point. If the relatively tame jump-jive of Bill Haley & the Comets’ Rock Around the Clock had British teenagers ripping seats out of cinemas in frenzied excitement, one has to wonder what it would have done to young Russians. For teenagers who didn’t much fancy joining the Leninist youth brigades of the Komsomol, the lure of the stilyagi – a hipper subculture that embraced all things jazz, rock’n’roll and Hollywood – must have seemed irresistibly exotic. Certainly appealing enough to send them along to self-styled “culture traders” such as Rudy Fuchs, an engineering student who was so keen to get involved with western music that he regularly gave blood in exchange for cash so that he could save up for a recording lathe. Blood money in exchange for bone music.Record like this were popular underground source for songs of prohibited but extremely popular russian performers like Lescheko or Vertinsky, underground criminal folklore songs, foreign jazz & pop music and later rock'n'roll in Soviet Union. Though 99% of roentgen film record belong to late 1940s- very early1960s, the whole timespan includes period from late 1930s until early 1970s.Western music may have been changing the world in the 1950s, but if you happened to be in Russia you were out of luck. State censorship was in full effect in the Soviet Union, and sneaking in, say, an American rock record was close to impossible. But a few industrious music fans managed to find another way.Stephen Coates, the leader of a British band called The Real Tuesday Weld, happened on this secret history by accident. Several years ago on a tour stop in St. Petersburg, he was strolling through a flea market when a strange item caught his eye."I thought, 'Is that a record? Or is it an X-ray?' I picked it up, and it seemed to be both," he recounts. "They guy whose stall it was was a bit dismissive — I think he wanted me to buy something else. But I brought it back to London, and I was fascinated by it. So I started to dig, and that has led me on a very strange journey."Coates is now an obsessive of what is nicknamed "bone music" — makeshift LPs etched into used X-rays, which were playable on a turntable and provided a fitting disguise for their contraband contents. He's collected his findings in a new book called X-Ray Audio: The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone, and he joined NPR's Michel Martin to talk about it. Hear the radio version at the audio link, and read more of their conversation below. 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Price: 94.99 USD
Location: San Francisco, California
End Time: 2024-11-15T23:22:30.000Z
Shipping Cost: 7.49 USD
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: CLICK RIGHT ARROW > FOR CONDITION, BILL HALEY and his COMETS, BILL HALEY
Format: Record
Material: Shellac
Type: Single
Genre: Rock
Record Label: roentgenizdat record
Record Size: 10"
Style: Blues Rock, Boogie-Woogie, British Invasion, Classic R&B, Contemporary R&B, Country Rock, Delta Blues, Eastern European Music, Experimental Rock, Folk Rock, Jazz Instrument, Jazz Rock, Jump Blues, Louisiana Blues, Lovers Rock, Motown, Piano Blues, Pop R&B, Pop Rock, Post-Bebop, Post-Rock, Rock en Español, Rockabilly/Psychobilly, Rocksteady, Roots Rock, Russian Music, Folk/Country Rock, Rock 'n' Roll
Speed: 78 RPM
Release Title: Rockin Matilda'
Language: English
