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Interesting West Indies Single
Topic Started: Sep 22 2014, 05:18 PM (679 Views)
the57thbeatle
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Jae, you really, really, really need to write that book!!! ;)
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socorro,Sep 25 2014
01:28 AM
Wow, what a breakthrough!  I will need some time to digest all this new information.

Yes, amazing what a single strand of information will lead to. I'm kicking myself for not noticing the connection earlier. I mean, there were only three pressing plants in Jamaica at the time:

WIRL (owned by Seaga)
Lee Enterprises (owned by Lee)
Federal Records (owned by Khouri)

What I couldn't do was figure out where GloKen fit in as a "manufacturer", which is what the labels imply. But thanks to servi's OCR post, it all fell into place. GloKen was not a manufacturer at all, but a distributor owned by the same couple who owned Federal Records, a manufacturer. So no connection to WIRL, and seemingly an earlier Capitol licensee. How I missed the GLOriaKENneth connection perplexes me.

BTW, it was Khouri who influenced Lee to buy WIRL from Seaga. This reduced the number of pressing plants in Jamaica to two.
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