Billboard (December 16, 1957)There was an explosion of new space-themed label names, among them, Orbit.
Hollywood – Now that we’re concerned with satellites, sputniks and the like, disk promotion man Irwin Zucker figures ther’s gotta be an « Outer Space Top Ten» To help the Martian d.j. programming, Zucker compiled the following list :
1 The Last Time I Saucer Paris
2 Ol’ Rocket Chair’s Got Me
3 It’s Moon In January
4 Don’t Satellite Under The Apple Tree
5 How Comet You Do Me Like You Do, Do, Do ?
6 Martian Thru Georgia
7 You’re Getting To Be An Orbit With Me
8 Oh, How I Missile You Tonight
9 I’ve Grown Accustomed To Your Space
10 My Sphere Lady
I've collected here pictures of the different Orbit labels that I can find. Only one picture for each label.
Williamson, West Virginia
"The Sound That Out Of This World". Pop label launched by Richard Vaughn's High Fidelity Recordings in 1958.
M-G-M Records subsidiary
Name changed to Cub when, according to Billboard (April 7, 1958) it was learned by MGM that there were four other labels on the market employing the Orbit name.
unknown address
Texas
DeKalb, Texas
Nashville, Tenn., eighties
Houston, Texas
Cape Canaveral, Florida, 1962
Hunstville, Alabama
Centerport, New York - 1978
And finally :
Almost Orbit. A Bobby Towers production.
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Nice selection thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteSean Downey, singer of "You Let Go" on the MGM-iteration of Orbit Records (shown above), tried to follow in the footsteps of his father, one of the most legendary Irish tenors of the 1920s and 1930s.
ReplyDeleteSean later made a bigger name for himself on television when he coopted his dad's name and began billing himself as Morton Downey, Jr.