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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

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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.

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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) ?

The label that has the most information I have ever seen on 45 label.

Would be interested for Robb to give some insight.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.  

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.

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!   :lol:

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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