This Hot Wax label was a short-lived one. It received its only mention in 'Music Week' in the issue of the 26th of August 1978, which broke the news that Hot Wax Productions, Clifford Davis's new label, had signed a licensing deal with Anchor Records (q.v.). Previous Hot Wax productions, by the group Stretch and its guitarist Kirby (Gregory), had been issued on the Anchor label, so the association of the new label and Anchor was a natural enough one. Sadly, Hot Wax came on board at a time when Anchor, through no fault of its own, was heading for the rocks. A mere seven months after the licensing deal was signed Anchor closed down; during that period Hot Wax had issued a single and an album by both of the artists mentioned above, but they were destined to be the company's only releases and they are not commonly met with. If Davis made any attempts to place Hot Wax with another licensee after Anchor's demise, 'MW' did not report them. Manufacture and distribution of Hot Wax records were by CBS, as they were for all Anchor products at that time. On the second single, 'Forget The Past' b/w 'Fooling Me' by Stretch (WAX-2; 8/78) the credits were printed in red (2), the grey ones on Kirby's 'Bottom Line' b/w 'That's Some Dream' (WAX-1; 8/78) presumably having been found difficult to read (1). The difference in the background colour is down to my scanner.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.