Roburt Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 (edited) Found this out while tidying up old paperwork that I had filed away (in no particular order) about 20 years ago. Scanner 'up the spout' at present, so could only take a photo of it. Wonder if the info it contains fetches back any memories for Robb ? Some info here .... https://www.discogs.com/label/Airwave%20Records%20(2) & here .... https://www.discogs.com/label/Airwave+International Edited July 25, 2013 by Roburt
Roburt Posted July 25, 2013 Author Posted July 25, 2013 (edited) Lifted from the anorakscorner web site ...... ...... PRESSING PLANT INFO ...... H.V. Waddell Co. - Burbank, Calif. -- Featued a "W" stamped in the dead-wax. Closed in the mid-80's. So Airwave were using the place to make their test pressings in late 82. Guess they had their 'normal stock' pressed up there as well back then. Info on a fraction of what was pressed up at Waddells here ..... https://www.discogs.com/label/H.V.+Waddell+Co. Edited July 25, 2013 by Roburt
Roburt Posted July 25, 2013 Author Posted July 25, 2013 How did the foreign (UK, France, Switzerland) licensing deals come about & who ran the UK Airwave label (who put out the Mel Carter & Monalisa Young single) ?
jocko Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 The label that has the most information I have ever seen on 45 label.Would be interested for Robb to give some insight.
Ady Croasdell Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 O'Malley Jones has a track on the Romark Kent Harris Kent CD. I think there's some great You Tube footage of him singing in a club. Robb who? I'm missing something here.
Soulman Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 O'Malley Jones has a track on the Romark Kent Harris Kent CD. I think there's some great You Tube footage of him singing in a club. Robb who? I'm missing something here. Robb K
Derek Pearson Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 What a great little tune Delia Renee had out in 1981 "You're gonna want me back". Pretty sure it got spins on the fledgling modern scene at some stage - seem to think my copy came via Ian Clark. Derek Delia Renee “You’re gonna want me back” / inst (Airwave 94963) released 1981. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqLPxsLm1qU Looks like Ms Renee has her own channel on YouTube — interesting video of her musical history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31YHs3YCmy0
Steve G Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 Ian Clark was the man in touch with Tom diPierro too back then in the early 80's. he got all sorts of Airwave things from Tom, some pretty, some bad. An interesting label though.
Roburt Posted July 25, 2013 Author Posted July 25, 2013 O'Malley Jones has a track on the Romark Kent Harris Kent CD. I think there's some great You Tube footage of him singing in a club. Robb who? I'm missing something here. Thanks for the pointer Ady, its a good clip (& there are others of him). What age must he be now ?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BeC30Ey-iQ
Roburt Posted July 25, 2013 Author Posted July 25, 2013 O'Malley's singing on this track (from 1980) as well ............. a twice released (on different labels) 12" single ........ https://www.discogs.com/Ty-Karim-George-Griffin-Ty-Towana-Feat-OMalley-Jones-Keep-On-Doin-Whatcha-Doin-Catch-Action/release/1528165
Ady Croasdell Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 Ha, I never spotted the Catch Action billing, well done.
Roburt Posted July 25, 2013 Author Posted July 25, 2013 O'Malley's Romark track ain't on youtube, but you can listen to a snippet of it here ......... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pay-And-Be-On-Way/dp/B00CX1K0GI
Roburt Posted July 25, 2013 Author Posted July 25, 2013 You can listen to "Catch Action" here (though not buy a copy of the 12") ........ https://www.firstexperiencerecords.com/product-detail/Vinyl+Singles/64/Sheridan+House/Ty+Karim+%26+George+Griffin/Keep+On+Doin'+Whatcha'+Doin'/vinyl/2490
Glynthornhill Posted July 25, 2013 Posted July 25, 2013 Re the Airwave uk logo thru Record Shack uk don't forget about Michael McGloiry 's boogie outing from early 1980 ' s : Won' t You Let Me Be The One ' Has the airwave logo across the middle . Have one up for grabs here - it's quite an obscure uk 45. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-UK-MODERN-SOUL-Michael-McGloiry-Won-t-You-Let-Me-One-/360697106713?pt=UK_Records&hash=item53fb391119
Robbk Posted July 26, 2013 Posted July 26, 2013 Yes, it does bring up a lot of memories. Unfortunately, I can't help with who ran UK Airwave. That happened after I left Airwave in late 1984. We had acontact in London, whom I visited, trying to market Mel Carter's Love Test, Linda Kendrick and a few others in 1983. But we didn't finish a deal. Tom DePierro was already suffering a lot from his cancer by late 1984, so it may have been Terry Brown, who made the deal with the British lessee.
Robbk Posted July 26, 2013 Posted July 26, 2013 What a great little tune Delia Renee had out in 1981 "You're gonna want me back". Pretty sure it got spins on the fledgling modern scene at some stage - seem to think my copy came via Ian Clark. Derek Delia Renee “You’re gonna want me back” / inst (Airwave 94963) released 1981. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqLPxsLm1qU Looks like Ms Renee has her own channel on YouTube — interesting video of her musical history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31YHs3YCmy0 It got a LOT of sales in Germany and Belgium, as well. It was our biggest seller, by far. Maybe Mel Carter's "Love Test" was 2nd, with its UK sales. But the only money we ever saw was the original rights lease upfront payment.
Robbk Posted July 26, 2013 Posted July 26, 2013 O'Malley Jones has a track on the Romark Kent Harris Kent CD. I think there's some great You Tube footage of him singing in a club. Robb who? I'm missing something here. Ha! Ha! -And I thought you were a lot younger than I!
Robbk Posted July 26, 2013 Posted July 26, 2013 I seem to remember Rick Gianatos being a member of this forum, and making a few posts here and there, he was one of our main producers and arrangers, and half-owner of Altair Records (which he continued after Tom died and Airwave was over). He could answer a lot of your questions. Maybe he'S STILL LOOKING IN HERE?
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