Label Guide: Galaxy
Galaxy Records was founded in 1951 as the first subsidiary label of San Francisco-based Fantasy 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.
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78rpm Galaxy Label
78rpm Galaxy Label (1950s)
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1. Label Variation (I)
first Galaxy Label (1970s)
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1. Label Variation (II)
first Galaxy Label (1970s)
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1. Label Variation (III)
first Galaxy Label (1970s)
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1. Label Variation (IV)
first Galaxy Label (1970s)
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2. Label Variation (I)
second Galaxy Label (1977 - 1981)
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2. Label Variation (II)
second Galaxy Label (1981 - 1985)