Reflecting the global flows of the music industry during the 1970s, Indigenous jazz singer Wilma Reading's cover of Captain and Tennille's 'The Way I Want to Touch You' is recorded on a flexi-disc attached to a 1979 Russian magazine.

The music and literary magazine Krugozor (English translation: ‘Eruption / Horizon / Outlook’) featured articles, lyrics and poetry about popular music in Russia in the 1960s and ‘70s. Each issue came with several blue 7" flexi-discs. This recording, extracted from one of the discs, captures the rich vocals of Australian vocalist Wilma Reading. From Reading's sultry cover, listeners can experience the prowess of a singer who was little-known in her home country, and see the influence of popular American music on the world at the time, crossing borders across both Russia and Australia.

Wilma Reading, born in Cairns and of English-Irish and Kalkatungu-Erub Islander heritage, carved out a significant international career from the 1960s to the 1990s. She was the third Western singer invited behind the Iron Curtain, where she toured the Soviet Union with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra in 1979, when this recording was produced.