CHOBA B CCCP ("Back in the
USSR")
Unofficial release by Melodiya, October 31, 1988
Kansas
City/Hey Hey Hey Hey
Twenty Flight Rock
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Bring It On Home To Me
Lucille
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
That's All Right, Mama
Ain't That A Shame
Crackin' Up
Just Because
Midnight Special
CHOBA B CCCP ("Back in the
USSR")
Official release by Melodiya, December 24 , 1988
Kansas
City/Hey Hey Hey Hey
Twenty Flight Rock
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Bring It On Home To Me
Lucille
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday
That's All Right, Mama
Summertime
Ain't That A Shame
Crackin' Up
Just Because
Midnight Special
The following information regarding "Back in the USSR" was written by Ralph Weigmann and is used with permission here at the Ottawa Beatles Site.
From troni@pilzkopf.de
Date: 10 Apr 1995
You can find many different versions of the CHOBA B CCCP album
on vinyl.
The first release contains 11 songs, a yellow star on the front
and it has a yellow back-cover. The 2nd release has 13 songs and
a little star which can be silver, golden or grey (this depends
on the factory where the record was made).
The back cover of this version is white and it contains a
different text. This version was limited too, but the limit was
much higher.
These records were sold officially in russian record shops but
there was no chance to get them (except you are a good friend to
the salesman).
There are known versions from factorys in Moscow, Riga, Leningrad,
Tashkent and from Aprelka, a little town near Moscow.
The release from the factory in Taschkent is distributed in an
glamour-cover (11 songs). The various factorys produced records
with different labels (white or red) containing different text
on it. The Leningrad release is very interesting because the
silhouettes of the town are printed on the label.
The matrix contains the record number and a special number which
gives information about the release: A60-00415/1-1 is older than
A60-00415/1-6. On falsifications these number is scraped by hand
and not printed by a machine. Bootlegs mostly have very thick
cover paper and a brown star on it.
There are some misprints of the legal releases:
* a version contains 13 songs, but only 11 on the cover and on
the label.
* a versions contains twelve (!) songs on the record but 13 on
cover and label.
* a record with 13 songs on it (and also on label and cover)
but with a yellow star !
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From: troni@pilzkopf.de
Date: 20 Apr 1995 20:46:46 GMT
CHOBA B CCCP
The numerous variations of the CHOBA B CCCP albums made in the USSR have
been discussed lately on rec.music.beatles.
Some people asked me via e-mail for a list of CHOBA B CCCP versions.
For all the label- and matrix-purists - here it is (all legal USSR
releases, no bootlegs, no counterfeits, except one could be one, noted
in comment):
Factory: Riga
Songs: 11
Inner Packaging: plastic
Little Star Color: yellow
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: none
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-1 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-1 DMM
Comment: little star on cover and MPL-man are very closely
Factory: Tashkent
Songs: 11
Inner Packaging: paper
Little Star Color: dark yellow
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: none
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-1 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-1 DMM
Comment: brilliant cover; little star on cover is overprinted with the
MPL-man on the right bottom of the back-cover yellow color is
not covering, it seems like brush-painted
Factory: Aprelewka
Songs: 11
Inner Packaging: paper
Little Star Color: dark yellow
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: one thick bar
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-2 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-3 DMM
Factory: Tashkent
Songs: 11
Inner Packaging: paper
Little Star Color: yellow
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: none
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-1 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-1 DMM
Comment: brilliant cover; little star on cover is overprinted with the
MPL-man on the right bottom of the back-cover yellow color is
not covering, it seems like brush-painted; label text of B is
printed on the inner groove (misprint)
Factory: Moscow
Songs: 11
Inner Packaging: paper
Little Star Color: orange
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: one thin bar
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-1 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-1 DMM
Factory: Tashkent: cover; Aprelewka: record
Songs: 11
Inner Packaging: paper
Little Star Color: dark yellow
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: one thick bar
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-1 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-1 DMM
Comment: brilliant cover; little star on cover is overprinted with the
MPL-man on the right bottom of the back-cover yellow color is
not covering, it seems like brush-painted; cover seems to be
copied (maybe a counterfeit)
Factory: Aprelewka
Songs: 11
Inner Packaging: plastic, quadratic
Little Star Color: dark yellow
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: one thick bar
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-3 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-3 DMM
Factory: Aprelewka
Songs: 11
Inner Packaging: paper
Little Star Color: yellow
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: one thick bar
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-3 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-3 DMM
Factory: Moscow
Songs: 11
Inner Packaging: paper
Little Star Color: orange
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: one thin bar
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-1 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-3 DMM
Factory: Riga
Songs: 13
Inner Packaging: plastic
Little Star Color: brown
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: none
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-5 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-5 DMM
Comment: big red star on front cover is very dark; cover is rough
Factory: Riga
Songs: 13
Inner Packaging: plastic
Little Star Color: dark gold
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: none
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-5 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-5 DMM
Comment: cover is rough and very light white
Factory: Riga
Songs: 13
Inner Packaging: plastic
Little Star Color: yellow-gold
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: none
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-5 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-5 DMM
Comment: cover is rough
Factory: Leningrad (town was renamed to St. Petersburg)
Songs: 13
Inner Packaging: paper
Little Star Color: dirty gold
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: two thin bars
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-5 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-5 DMM
Comment: cover is very rough; silhouette of Leningrad on label;
label writing is blue; on back cover a date and a number were
printed: 6. 04. 89; 3.213-0-131580
Factory: Leningrad (town was renamed to St. Petersburg)
Songs: 13
Inner Packaging: paper
Little Star Color: yellow
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: two thin bars
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-6 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-5 DMM
Comment: cover is very rough; silhouette of Leningrad on label;
label writing is blue; on back cover a date and a number were
printed: 6. 04. 89; 3.213-0-131580; big red star on front cover
is very dark
Factory: Aprelewka
Songs: 13
Inner Packaging: paper
Little Star Color: gold
Label Color: white
Bars on Label: one thick bar
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-7 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-5 DMM
Factory: Aprelewka
Songs: 13
Inner Packaging: paper
Little Star Color: dark gold
Label Color: red
Bars on Label: one thick bar
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-5 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-5 DMM
Factory: Aprelewka
Songs: 13
Inner Packaging: plastic
Little Star Color: dark gold
Label Color: white
Bars on Label: one thick bar
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-5 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-5 DMM
Comment: big red star on front cover is very dark
The 11 song release was pressed 50.000 times, the 13 song release
350.000 times (mostly in Aprelka, a very small town near Moscow).
I hope this is useful for your archives.
Beatles 4ever!
Ralph
Here is the link to Ralphs site containing the original article:
http://www.wirtschaft.tu-ilmenau.de/~weigmann/choba.html