viper, can you help me here?
i've got choba on lp and i'd love to know whether i have a russian one or a bootleg one.

it's got 13 songs, lots of russian on the sleeve and real matrix numbers.

do you know anything about this topic? i found a site that described some of the features of various russian released ones but mine has a combination of the features not mentioned on that page.

hi rings,

its hard to say which you have without looking at it. there were slight differences between the first and later pressings of the russian album. there were also bootlegs of them.

the russian versions on the melodiya label have 13 songs and the later non-russian parlophone & capitol version have 14 songs. the track "i'm in love again" was added to the latter release.

sorry can't be of much help with your question. maybe, someone else can enlighten us.

Factory: how can you tell?
Songs: 13
Inner packaging: paper (may have been replaced)
Little Star Colour: dark gold
Label Colour: white
Bars on Label: one thick bar
Matrix Side A: A60-00415/1-5 DMM
Matrix Side B: A60-00416/1-6 DMM
Comments: date hand written on reverse of cover

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