A small independent (?) label from the late '70s and early '80s, possibly connected with December Songs (q.v.). An EP by Croydon-based Soul / Funk band Majority seems to have been Waiting-In-Vain's first release. It featured the tracks 'Caroline', 'Give Me That Bass Line', Mr. Magic' and 'Gut Feeling', and its catalogue number was WIV-50. It came out in late 1979 or early 1980. 'Music Master' gives a release date of February 1980 and the distributors as Spartan, but the labels have 1979 on them so it may be that Spartan took responsibility for distribution in February and that the record itself was available in 1979 - the sleeve does not mention a distributor. I've given it the benefit of the doubt, anyway, and included it on this site. Pressing was done in France, as was the case with a lot of records by small independents at that time. The only other record on Waiting-In-Vain that googling dredges up is a 1982 LP by Keith Robinson & Some Mates, 'The World Needs Love' (WIVLP-1002), which again was linked to December Songs. Presumably there was also a WIVLP-1001.
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