DETROIT —Motown Records has bought the assets of Golden World Records.
The purchase was announced by Berry Gordy Jr., Motown president, and Mrs. Joanne Bratton, president of Golden World.
The buy includes real estate, recording studio and Golden World’s catalog of master disks and tapes.
Motown’s purchase also covers the catalog of Myto Music, Inc., and the recording contracts of Edwin Starr and J. J. Barnes. END
GOLDEN WORLD RECORDS: Just one of many song titles found in the studio’s discography, “I’ll Love You Forever,” by the Holidays was released by the Detroit-basedEd Wingate recording stablein December 1965.
(Information and news source: Billboard; September 10, 1966)