Goldwax - Info Needed

[Harrogatesoul]

Numerous label designs / local / national dist. labels - Have seen the black design with the straight silver text and also white labels of these too. Original issues? Also, there are quite a lot of re-issues (I think from the 70s? Or 80s?) - Does anyone know the story behind these? Cheers!

[Guest Dave Turner]

Numerous label designs / local / national dist. labels - Have seen the black design with the straight silver text and also white labels of these too. Original issues? Also, there are quite a lot of re-issues (I think from the 70s? Or 80s?) - Does anyone know the story behind these? Cheers!

Rich, Naoya Yamauchi had a page on his site "The Golden Age of Soul Music" which gave details of the variant Goldwax labels. The link for his site no longer active. the only way I know to get it again is go to this site --

https://www.archive.org/

In the "Wayback Machine" field enter this URL

https://park12.wakwak...01-goldwax.html

Edited to say that this above URL gets shortened when I put it on here and won't work with the Wayback Machine. Click the link and then copy the URL on the page that comes up and paste that into the wayback machine thingy, should then work.

A calendar comes up with a date highlighted in blue, just click on that.

Unfortunately only the text comes up without the photos which takes a lot of the info away, however you may be able to gleen summat from it. As my Japanese speaking skills are zero i had to run it through a translator so some of comes out a little pigeon English.

Dave

Edited April 21, 2011 by Dave Turner

[Cheapsiderecords]

black design with the straight silver

Canadian? Sounds like the same label design as the Dial and Duke stuff I see here?

[Garethx]

The black design dates from VeeJay distribution of the label. Veejay pressed at several locations throughout the States, with each plant having its own typesetting and layout variations. Good sources of this information are the various sites devoted to The Beatles pre-Capitol US releases.

Here's a particularly useful one which helps explain possible variations of VeeJay distributed labels such as Goldwax or Champion:

https://thebeatles-collection.com/wordpress/category/vee-jay/

Edited April 22, 2011 by garethx

[Harrogatesoul]

Thanks guys Clears up the black label design. Anyone know about the 70s re-issues at all then? Or was the catalogue continued on from the label owners?

[mshoals]

Which black label Goldwax 45s are you referring too? The only black one I've ever seen is Goldwax 113, distributed by Tollie.

[Garethx]

I've also seen James Carr's "Lover's Competition" (Goldwax 112) on the black label. Tollie was re-absorbed back into VeeJay in summer 1965. VeeJay filed for bankruptcy the following year.