Melodiya

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Melodiya

Melodiya (meaning melody

Melody

In music, a melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity....
) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
. It was the state-owned major record company/label of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
.

h songs "Octopus's Garden

Octopus's Garden

"Octopus's Garden" is a song written by Ringo Starr with a little help from George Harrison . It is featured on The Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road , and their later albums The Beatles 1967-1970, Anthology 3 and most recently the Mashup album Love ....
" and "Something

Something

File:Beatles-singles-something-us-2.jpg"Something" is a single released by The Beatles in 1969, and featured on the album Abbey Road . It was the first song written by George Harrison to appear on the A-side of a Beatles single....
" from the album "Abbey Road

Abbey Road (album)

Abbey Road is the eleventh official U.K. album and seventeenth U.S. album released by The Beatles. Though work on Abbey Road began in April 1969, making it the final album recorded by the band, Let It Be was the last album released before the Beatles' dissolution in 1970....
". On the B-side was just one song from the same album: "Come Together

Come Together

"Come Together" is a song by The Beatles written primarily by John Lennon and credited to Lennon/McCartney. The song is the lead-off track on The Beatles' September 1969 album Abbey Road ....
"]] It was established in 1964

1964 in music

Events*January 1 - Top of the Pops premieres on BBC television.*January 3 - Footage of the Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England is shown on The Jack Paar Show....
as the "All-Union Gramophone Record Firm of the USSR Ministry of Culture Melodiya". It utilized gigantic resources of numerous recording studios, manufacturing facilities throughout the USSR as well as powerful centralized distribution and promotion system.

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Melodiya (meaning melody

Melody

In music, a melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity....
) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) record label

Record label

Soviet Union

History

with songs "Octopus's Garden

Octopus's Garden

Something

Abbey Road (album)

Come Together

1964 in music

Vinyl

A vinyl compound is any organic compound that contains a vinyl group , −CarbonHydrogenCovalent bondCH2. These are derivatives of ethene, CH2=CH2, with one hydrogen atom replaced with some other group....
records. As of 1973 Melodiya released some 1,200 gramophone records with the total circulation of 190-200 million per year and 1 million compact cassette

Compact Cassette

The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape Sound recording and reproduction format....
s per year and was exporting its production into more than 70 countries.

The firm's production was dominated by classical music

Classical music

Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to mainstream music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of Western art history Religious music and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times....
and music by Soviet composers and musicians, performances by Soviet theater actors, fairy tale

Fairy tale

A fairy tale is a fictional story that may feature folklore characters such as Fairy, goblins, Elf, trolls, giant , and talking animals, and usually enchanted, often involving a far-fetched sequence of events....
s for children, etc. For example, Melodiya released performances of works by Peter Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
and Shostakovich

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
, which were valued for their authenticity. Melodiya also released some of the most successful western pop

Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
, jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
and rock

Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
records which included ABBA

ABBA

ABBA were a Sweden pop music group. The band consisted of Agnetha F?ltskog, Benny Andersson, Bj?rn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad . They topped the charts worldwide from the mid-1970s in music to the early 1980s in music....
, Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
, Boney M. (the 1978 track "Rasputin" excluded), Dave Grusin

Dave Grusin

David Grusin is an Academy Award-winning United States composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many film score for feature films and television, and he has won numerous awards for his soundtrack work....
, Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear, is a France singer, composer, lyricist, actor, Painting, TV presenter and novelist. Lear started her career as a model in the mid 60s and was also the muse of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dal?....
, Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an United States hard rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s....
(album New Jersey

New Jersey (album)

New Jersey is Bon Jovi's fourth album, released on September 13, 1988. Approximate sales were in excess of 7 million copies in the United States and over 18 million copies worldwide....
1988), etc.

In other countries, Melodiya recordings imported from the USSR were often sold under the label MK, which stood for Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga ("International Book", Russian

Russian language

Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
: ????????????? ?????). In the United States, many Melodiya recordings appeared on the domestically manufactured Monitor Records

Monitor Records (New York)

Monitor Records is a New York City-based record label founded by Michael Stillman and his business partner Rose Rubin in 1956 in music. Stillman and Rubin founded Monitor Records to fill a gap they perceived in the music available to the American public, music from the then-Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and other parts of Europe....
label. In the 1970s and 1980s, Melodiya recordings of classical and folk music appeared on the Melodiya/Angel

Angel Records

Angel Records is a record label belonging to EMI. It was formed in 1953 and specialised in european classical music, but included an occasional operetta or Broadway score....
(USA) and Melodiya/HMV

HMV

His Master's Voice is a famous trademark in the music business, and for many years was the name of a large record label. The name was coined in 1899 as the title of a painting of the dog Nipper listening to a wind-up phonograph....
(elsewhere) labels as the result of an exclusive contract with EMI

EMI

The EMI Group is a United Kingdom music company comprising the major record label EMI Music ? which operates several labels and is based in Kensington in London, England, United Kingdom ? and EMI Music Publishing, based in New York City....
, the owner of both labels. A smaller number of recordings were distributed on other labels, particularly after 1989, before Melodiya granted exclusive rights to BMG

BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008....
in 1994. After expiry of the BMG contract in 2003, the company re-opened under new management and in 2006 started re-releasing recordings under its own label.

Being a state monopoly from 1919 to c.1989, the Soviet recording industry was able to apply a single numbering system to all its releases irrespective of origin or place of manufacture. The number sequences for 78s and LPs are strictly chronological, from which it is possible to date many, though not all, releases from the catalogue number

Melodiya

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