Label Guide: Galaxy
Galaxy Records was founded in 1951 as the first subsidiary label of San Francisco-basedFantasy Records. It was named in honor of a popular fantasy and science fiction magazine. Galaxy has been relaunched several times, and its first incarnation in the 1950s as a jazz label didn't produce any albums.
From 1962 until the late 1960s, Galaxy Records served as a blues and R&B label with sparse album releases from John Lee Hooker, B.B. King and others. After almost ten years in hiatus, Fantasy reactivated Galaxy in 1977 as a jazz label with the GXY-series. This was the most productive period for the label with more than 50 album releases until 1985.
78rpm Galaxy Label
78rpm Galaxy Label (1950s)1. Label Variation (I)
first Galaxy Label (1970s)1. Label Variation (II)
first Galaxy Label (1970s)1. Label Variation (III)
first Galaxy Label (1970s)1. Label Variation (IV)
first Galaxy Label (1970s)2. Label Variation (I)
second Galaxy Label (1977 - 1981)2. Label Variation (II)
second Galaxy Label (1981 - 1985)
