Snowa w SSSR

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Снова в СССР
Paul McCartney's studio album

Publication
(s)

  • October 31, 1988 ( SU )
  • September 30, 1991 ( UK )
  • October 29, 1991 ( US )
Label (s)

Format (s)

LP , MC , CD , download

Genre (s)

Rock and roll

Title (number)

  • LP: 11 (published Oct. 1988)
    or 13 (published Dec. 1988)
  • CD: 14
occupation
  • Nick Garvey - bass, vocals
  • Mick Green - guitar
  • Chris Whitten - drums

production

Paul McCartney

Studio (s)

Hog Hill Mill Studios, Sussex

chronology
Unplugged (The Official Bootleg)
(1991) 		Снова в СССР Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio
(1991)

Snowa v SSSR ( Russian : Снова в СССР , English : Back in the USSR, also known as The Russian Album ) is an originally only in the October 31, 1988 the Soviet Union published music album of the British musician Paul McCartney , consisting exclusively of rock ' n'-roll classics. At the same time, including the Wings albums, live albums and compilation albums, it is Paul McCartney's 22nd album after the Beatles split up . It was released on September 30, 1991 in the UK and October 29, 1991 in the US.

Emergence

After his last solo album Press to Play became a commercial failure, McCartney devoted himself to various music projects, so McCartney decided to return to his musical roots and record his favorite songs from the 1950s. A spontaneous session on July 20 and 21, 1987 resulted in the album Snowa w SSSR with cover versions of 15 rock 'n' roll pieces and an original composition. The songs were mixed on July 22nd. Paul McCartney had a few LPs pressed for his family and friends, which he gave away at Christmas in 1987. Four of these songs, Midnight Special , Don't Get Around Much Anymore , Lawdy Miss Clawdy, and Kansas City , were used as B-side titles for two Once Upon a Long Ago maxisingles released in November 1987.

In 1988 Paul McCartney and his then manager Richard Ogden decided to release the album exclusively in the Soviet Union . Снова в СССР was supposed to be a present to McCartney's Russian fans, who in 1988 found it difficult to acquire his other publications.

The album title Снова в СССР is the translation of the Beatles song Back in the USSR , written by McCartney and released on the so-called White Album in 1968 . Both the Cyrillic and Latin spelling of the album title are often found. The title corresponds to the German transcription Snowa w SSSR.

Although 16 songs resulted from the recording sessions, the first 50,000 copies produced and released on October 31, 1988 contained only 11 songs.

page 1

  1. Kansas City
  2. Twenty Flight Rock
  3. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
  4. Bring It on Home to Me
  5. Lucille
  6. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Page 2

  1. That's all right mom
  2. Ain't that a shame
  3. Crackin 'up
  4. Just Because
  5. Midnight Special

When a new pressing with 350,000 copies of the album appeared in the Soviet Union in December 1988, the songs I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday and Summertime were added as well as a back cover text by Roy Carr. The original cover text is from Andre Gavrilov . The second edition of the album now had the following order of songs:

page 1

  1. Kansas City
  2. Twenty Flight Rock
  3. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
  4. Bring It on Home to Me
  5. Lucille
  6. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  7. I'm gonna be a wheel some day

Page 2

  1. That's all right mom
  2. Summertime
  3. Ain't that a shame
  4. Crackin 'up
  5. Just Because
  6. Midnight Special

On January 26, 1989, Paul McCartney gave an interview for the BBC Russian Service to promote his album in the Soviet Union. In September / October 1991, the album was released worldwide on CD, and I'm in Love Again, which was released in July 1989 as the B-side of McCartney's single This One , was added, and the album now comprised 14 tracks. Two other songs from this recording session were released elsewhere: I Wanna Cry as another B-side of This One and It's Now or Never on The Last Temptation of Elvis CD released by the New Musical Express in February 1991 .

The CD release was not commercially successful. One of the possible reasons is that potential buyers acquired vinyl long-playing records or bootlegs imported from the Soviet Union .

Cover design

The album cover was designed by McCartney's wife Linda and shows Paul with a red star . The photo was taken while recording the album Ram . The CD comes with a 16-page illustrated booklet containing information about the album and the songs.

Track list

  1. Kansas City ( Leiber / Stoller ) - 4:02
  2. Twenty Flight Rock ( Eddie Cochran , Ned Fairchild) - 3:03
  3. Lawdy Miss Clawdy ( Lloyd Price ) - 3:17
  4. I'm in Love Again ( Fats Domino , Dave Bartholomew ) - 2:58
  5. Bring It on Home to Me ( Sam Cooke ) - 3:14
  6. Lucille ( Richard Penniman , Albert Collins ) - 3:13
  7. Don't Get Around Much Anymore ( Duke Ellington , Bob Russell ) - 2:51
  8. I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Some Day (Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew, Roy Hayes) - 4:12
  9. That's All Right Mama ( Arthur Crudup ) - 3:47
  10. Summertime ( George Gershwin ) - 4:57
  11. Ain't That a Shame (Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew) - 3:43
  12. Crackin 'Up ( Ellas McDaniel ) - 3:55
  13. Just Because ( Bob Shelton , Joe Shelton , Sydney Robin) - 3:34
  14. Midnight Special ( Traditional ) - 3:59

Information on individual songs

Sources mention that another six previously unreleased songs were recorded: the Beatles ' I Saw Her Standing There , Lonnie Donegan's Take This Hammer , Eddie Cochran's Cut Across Shorty , Elvis Presley's Poor Boy , Carl Perkins ' Lend Me Your Comb, and No. Other Baby from the Vipers , which was re-recorded for McCartney's 1999 album Run Devil Run . Fragments of these pieces were found in the estate of former McCartney employee Trevor Jones. They can be found on various unofficial publications today.

The songs Bring It on Home to Me and Ain't That a Shame were also released by John Lennon in 1975 on his Rock 'n' Roll album.

Single releases

No single was released from the album.

Five 7 "vinyl promosingles were released in Spain at the end of 1988: Twenty Flight Rock / Lawdy Miss Clawdy (PRO-2/001) Bring It on Home to Me / Lucille (PRO-2/002), Don't Get Around Much Anymore / That's All Right Mama (PRO-2/003), Ain't that a Shame / Crackin 'Up (PRO-2/004) and Just Because / Midnight Special (PRO-2/005).

Chart placements

year album Chart placements annotation
DE AT CH UK US
1991 Снова в СССР - - - 63 109 The album reached number 48 in the Japanese charts

Re-releases

  • In May 2007 the album was released in download format.
  • On July 12, 2019, the album, which was pressed on 180 grams of yellow vinyl and 180 grams of black vinyl, was released by Capitol Records . The album is accompanied by a sheet on which Roy Carr's text from 1988 is printed. The original text is printed in Cyrillic letters on the back of the cover . The CD has a cardboard cover that can be opened, the CD album comes with a leaflet on which Roy Carr's text from 1988 is printed. The songs were remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Alex Wharton . The re-release only contains the eleven songs from the original Soviet first pressing:

page 1

  1. Kansas City
  2. Twenty Flight Rock
  3. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
  4. Bring It on Home to Me
  5. Lucille
  6. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Page 2

  1. That's all right mom
  2. Ain't that a shame
  3. Crackin 'up
  4. Just Because
  5. Midnight Special

literature

  • Chip Madinger and Mark Easter: Eight Arms to Hold You - The Solo Compendium . 44.1 Productions 2000, ISBN 0-615-11724-4 (pp. 294-296).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.the-paulmccartney-project.com: Title list of one of the bootlegs that contains the corresponding pieces. Retrieved February 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ Promotional single : Twenty Flight Rock / Lawdy Miss Clawdy
  3. ↑ Promotional single : Bring It on Home to Me / Lucille
  4. ↑ Promotional single : Don't Get Around Much Anymore / That's All Right Mama
  5. ↑ Снова в СССР– Colorful vinyl
  6. ↑ Снова в СССР– CD re-release