GO EAST YOUNG MAN - Pressings from behind the Iron Curtain

Alexander · **Posted:** Tue Feb 21, 2012 2:04 pm

Elvis is everywhere, even in Eastern Europe. We all know the history of the Iron Curtain and also we know that Eastern European countries were not very tolerant towards Western popular music. But Elvis was there and the aim of this topic is to collect a little discography of releases that were issued in counties like the DDR, CCCP, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Especially from Yugoslavia quite some pressings are known. Which collector is going to help me out?

Elvis' Christmas Album
Country: DDR
Year: 1971
Content: the 1970 USA Budget Camden issue of Elvis' Christmas Album

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This LP is unknown to most collectors - even in Germany. It's a German made LP for use in the German Democratic Republic. There were only a few DDR produced records and this LP is the rarest made for the DDR because collectors even didn't know anything about it. The album shows large similarities to the 1971 German (West) version but there are differences in the cover title and the contents are completely different. There is no mention of the DDR on this album - label says it is produced in Hamburg with the regular producers of West German Elvis albums.

In the late 80s the Western European market was floated with low budget picture discs from Denmark and also Eastern European imports were regularly seen. So it is not that the records underneath are very rare (they are NOT very hard to find) but they are nice to have.

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Elvis - That's All Right

Country: CCCP (Russia nowadays)
Year: 1988
Content: rock'n roll compilation

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ELVIS

Country: Bulgaria
Year: 1989
Content: greatest hits compilation

mrsongman · **Joined:** Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:44 am **Posts:** 32

Hello Alexander,

Great topic you've start.
I will contribute too soon.

Greetz,

mrsongman

Alexander · **Posted:** Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:14 pm

Yeah, there are some more. I must have Weihnachten With Elvis (EP) and Elvis, both on the AMIGA label from DDR somewhere in my vinyl collection. I will have to look for them, but do not hesitate to post them if I have not found that yet. I am curious what you come up with, Pieter... uhhh... mrsongman... :wink:

mrsongman · **Joined:** Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:44 am **Posts:** 32

ELVIS - Rock And Roll

Country: Bulgaria
Year: -

ELVIS - I Was The One

Country: Yugoslavia
Year: 1986

alvise · **Joined:** Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:05 pm **Posts:** 194

AMIGA

alvise · **Joined:** Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:05 pm **Posts:** 194

All from my collection...
RUSSIA

jwdt1 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 8:53 am

Bruno, you are still with us. some great records my friend and as always keep 'em coming.
Jim

John · **Posted:** Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:41 am

alvise wrote:

All from my collection...
RUSSIA

Some amazing artwork there. Thanks.

alvise · **Joined:** Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:05 pm **Posts:** 194

jwdt1 wrote:

Bruno, you are still with us. some great records my friend and as always keep 'em coming.
Jim

I am here of course...I don't like to jump from a forum to another,the only forums I post my things are this one and of course my own ..that is Elvis Italian Collector Club (EICC)..
http://www.elvis-italian-collector-club.it/

I'll be soon here with some other items

P.S.
I miss ..Ger..and I hope to see him here again

bruno

jwdt1 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:19 pm

Well Ger has left us for a rest for a while. Lets hope he comes back refreshed and raring to go.
Glad you are still with us though Bruno, at least you show us your records.
I look forward to seeing more of your collection.
Jim

Alexander · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:29 pm

John wrote:

alvise wrote:

All from my collection...
RUSSIA

Some amazing artwork there. Thanks.

Great to see these, Bruno... although I can not help but find these cover quite ugly... beauty sometimes is in ugliness I guess... ;-)

alvise · **Joined:** Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:05 pm **Posts:** 194

From Checoslovacchia

From Yugoslavia..

sometime they wrote Presly instead od Presley..on some album covers

Alexander · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:37 pm

Amazing what you can dig up Bruno, thanx!

mrsongman · **Joined:** Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:44 am **Posts:** 32

I agree with Alexander

jwdt1 · **Posted:** Mon Feb 27, 2012 10:27 pm

Some more great records Bruno.
Thanks for sharing.
Jim

Alexander · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:43 am

Some more from the DDR I found in my collection:

Elvis

Country: DDR (Berlin pressing on Amiga label)
Year: 1978
Content: compilation

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Elvis A Portrait In Music

Country: DDR (RCA Hamburg pressing for DDR Intershop AWA)
Year: 70s (1974?)

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Alexander · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 8:47 am

Sorry folks, the forum software acts weird. If I try to post a message gets blanc as soon as I download a picture or try to edit a post. John, what's going on? Sorry for the double post of the A Portrait In Music cover I cannot edit it out right now because of the software problem...

John · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:44 pm

Alexander wrote:

Sorry folks, the forum software acts weird. If I try to post a message gets blanc as soon as I download a picture or try to edit a post. John, what's going on?

Errr, I'm not the boss. Have you tried again?

John · **Posted:** Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:48 pm

John wrote:

Alexander wrote:

Sorry folks, the forum software acts weird. If I try to post a message gets blanc as soon as I download a picture or try to edit a post. John, what's going on?

Errr, I'm not the boss. Have you tried again?

Edit: I went in and got rid of the double but shouldn't the albums be the other way round?

mrsongman · **Joined:** Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:44 am **Posts:** 32

Hello Alexander,

Great covers....I didn't know the excistence of the first cover.

Greetz,

mrsongman

Alexander · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:22 pm

John wrote:

Alexander wrote:

Sorry folks, the forum software acts weird. If I try to post a message gets blanc as soon as I download a picture or try to edit a post. John, what's going on?

Errr, I'm not the boss. Have you tried again?

Maybe not, but you now. I've tried it over and over again and even today my screen went blanc if I try to edit posts. Very weird... yes the pictures should be reversed, but thanx for your help, appreciated!

John · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:12 pm

Alexander wrote:

John wrote:

Alexander wrote:

Sorry folks, the forum software acts weird. If I try to post a message gets blanc as soon as I download a picture or try to edit a post. John, what's going on?

Errr, I'm not the boss. Have you tried again?

Maybe not, but you now. I've tried it over and over again and even today my screen went blanc if I try to edit posts. Very weird... yes the pictures should be reversed, but thanx for your help, appreciated!

Fixed. I didn't realise I could do that. The invoice is in the post.

Alexander · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:19 pm

John wrote:

Alexander wrote:

John wrote:

Alexander wrote:

Sorry folks, the forum software acts weird. If I try to post a message gets blanc as soon as I download a picture or try to edit a post. John, what's going on?

Errr, I'm not the boss. Have you tried again?

Maybe not, but you now. I've tried it over and over again and even today my screen went blanc if I try to edit posts. Very weird... yes the pictures should be reversed, but thanx for your help, appreciated!

Fixed. I didn't realise I could do that. The invoice is in the post.

Thanks John!

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