Day: September 26, 2016

50TH! MOTOWN BUYS ‘GOLDEN WORLD’ RECORDS . . . SEPTEMBER 10, 1966

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logo (MCRFB)From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1966

Motown Buys-Out Local Competition

 

 

 

 

 

Edwin Starr, Ric-Tic Records, 1965.
Edwin Starr, Ric-Tic Records, 1965.

DETROIT — Motown Records has bought the assets of Golden World Records.

The purchase was announced by Berry Gordy Jr., Motown president, and Mrs. Joanne Bratton, president of Golden World.

The buy includes real estate, recording studio and Golden World’s catalog of master disks and tapes.

Motown’s purchase also covers the catalog of Myto Music, Inc., and the recording contracts of Edwin Starr and J. J. Barnes. END

GOLDEN WORLD RECORDS: "I'll Love You Forever," by the Holidays was released by the Ed Wingate's label in December 1965.
GOLDEN WORLD RECORDS: Just one of many song titles found in the studio’s discography, “I’ll Love You Forever,” by the Holidays was released by the Detroit-based Ed Wingate recording stable in December 1965.

(Information and news source: Billboard; September 10, 1966)

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A MCRFB ‘CAPSULE COUNTDOWN’! WEEK OF 09/26/64

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MCRFB.COM TOP 10 COUNTDOWN * September 1964 * A Henry Krueger Production

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