Goldwax

Goldwax A Memphis-based label whose sixty-plus singles, recorded between 1964 and 1969, are highly esteemed by fans of deep soul music. Goldwax was founded by Quentin M. Claunch (1922–), a Mississippi native with a country music background, with financial backing from Doc Russell , a Memphis pharmacist. Claunch was friends with Sun’s Sam Phillips and a part-owner of Hi Records in the late 1950s. His first major signings were O. V. Wright and James Carr , local gospel singers about to go secular…