SovSong (Russia) / c. 1937
Corporate background:
Label scan courtesy of UK music researcher
and collector Bill Dean-Myatt, who notes: “This 1930s record is a
bootleg copy of HMV B-6307 and B-6478 by Ray Noble and his
Orchestra. It’s a dub, not a master pressing.”
Design: The
illustration shows the clock tower of the Kremlin in Red
Square, Moscow, lit up against the night sky.
The visual effect is a little disconcerting
in that the label name lettering carries an upper shadow which
makes it face downward and away from the drawing.