United Audio question

HarvestmanMan

HarvestmanMan

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I'm trying to compile a listing of some of United Audio's records. Based in Youngstown, OH, the label's pressings were apparently funded by the bands.

Some pressings use a "Custom Series" numbering system that begins in the 6000s. The Blues Inc's "I Can't Live Without You" is CS #6001, and the Glass Harp's "Where Did My World Come From" is CS #6002...

...but the Dimensions' "Hey Little Woman" and Mickey Kalis/the Bakersfield Blues Band's "2:10 To Yuma" are both CS #6003.

Anyone know the story behind this...?
 
NW Buckeye has long been the expert on everything Ohio based. I suggest looking at his buckeyebeat.com website for precise info.

I own both singles; the Dimensions 45 was out in August, 1968. Mickey Kalis in August, 1969. Both have the same Custom series number of 6003. Duplicity is probably nothing more than a mess-up by the people involved with getting the 45s pressed and providing the label copy.
 
Thanks for the support, MTM!

I see that I am missing a few entries to the discography, probably because of the recent hacking that was done to my hosting service. I had to go through and upload and fix/change every file.....not fun but not as bad as it seems.

Every record on United Audio and WAM are custom records. These were not record labels, in the sense that they were sold, distributed, and promoted by the owners. The recording artists paid the studio $XXX and for that they got an hour or so of recording time, a tape, and xxx records. The WAM/UA people sent the tape to the pressing plant (Queen City in most cases) and got the records and the entire stock of records was given to the recording artists.
 
buckeyebeat said:
These were not record labels, in the sense that they were sold, distributed, and promoted by the owners. The recording artists paid the studio $XXX and for that they got an hour or so of recording time, a tape, and xxx records. The WAM/UA people sent the tape to the pressing plant (Queen City in most cases) and got the records and the entire stock of records was given to the recording artists.
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That makes sense now...thank you for the explanation. So the 801xx series was just an alternative numbering system?

While we're on this topic - do you know when QCA shut down (or stopped producing vinyl)? The last advertisement I have from them is from 1999 or thereabouts.
 
The five digit numbers are not the label numbers, nor should they be referenced as such. Those are the master numbers assigned by the Queen City Albums pressing plant. They run sequentially.
All United Audio and WAM label pressings use the 4 digit (mostly, for our area of interest) Custom Series numbering.
 
MopTopMike said:
The five digit numbers are not the label numbers, nor should they be referenced as such. Those are the master numbers assigned by the Queen City Albums pressing plant. They run sequentially.
All United Audio and WAM label pressings use the 4 digit (mostly, for our area of interest) Custom Series numbering.
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If that's the case, then what number would you use to reference the Next of Kin's "A Lovely Song"?
 
There's no 'reference number' for the Next of Kinn (the correct band moniker, an N was lost somewhere in the process) 45, if you read the discography I have up, you will see it as 'no number'.
 
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