Wand Records was started by Florence Greenberg

Florence Greenberg

Florence Greenberg was an American record label owner, music executive and a record producer.- Life and career :...

 in 1961

1961 in music

-Events:*January 15 – Motown Records signs The Supremes.*January 20 – Francis Poulenc's Gloria receives its premiėre in Boston, USA.*February 12 – The Miracles' "Shop Around" becomes Motown's first million-selling single....

 as a subsidiary of Scepter Records

Scepter Records

Scepter Records is a record company founded in 1959 by Florence Greenberg. She had just sold Tiara Records with The Shirelles for $4000 to Decca Records. When The Shirelles didn't produce any hits for Decca, they were given back to Greenberg, who promptly signed them. By 1961 Greenberg launched a...

. In 1976

1976 in music

-January–February:*January 5 – Former Beatles road manager Mal Evans is shot dead by Los Angeles police after refusing to drop what police only later determine is an air rifle....

 Florence Greenberg decided to retire from the business and sold her record labels to Springboard International. When Springboard went bankrupt, Gusto Records

Gusto Records

Gusto Records is a Nashville, Tennessee based record company specializing in reissuing and licensing recordings from its vast catalogue of music from acquired record labels and their own studio recordings....

 acquired the catalog.

Artists on Wand Records included artists like The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...

 and The Kingsmen

The Kingsmen

The Kingsmen is a 1960s garage rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States. They are best known for their 1963 recording of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie", which held the #2 spot on the Billboard charts for six weeks...

. The Kingsmen acquired full ownership of their Wand catalog in court from Gusto for nonpayment of royalties

Royalties

Royalties are usage-based payments made by one party to another for the right to ongoing use of an asset, sometimes an intellectual property...

.

Wand label artists

• Maxine Brown
  Maxine Brown (soul singer)
  Maxine Ella Brown is an American soul and R&B singer.-Background and career:Maxine Brown began singing as a child, performing with two New York based gospel groups called the Angelairs and the Royaltones when she was a teenager...
  
  
• Don & The Goodtimes
• The Independents
  The Independents (vocal group)
  The Independents were an American R&B vocal group active from 1971 to 1975. They scored several hits on the U.S. Pop and R&B charts. Their biggest success came in 1973 when "Leaving Me" went to #21 on the Billboard Hot 100, staying on that chart for 14 weeks and selling over one million copies. The...
  
  
• Isley Brothers
• Chuck Jackson
  Chuck Jackson
  Chuck Jackson is an R&B singer who was one of the first artists to record material by Burt Bacharach and Hal David successfully. He has performed with moderate success since 1961...
  
  
• Joe Jeffrey Group
  Joe Jeffrey Group
  The Joe Jeffrey Group was an American rhythm and blues band, who had a #14 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969, called "My Pledge Of Love". The group was made up of Joe Jeffrey , Al Russ , Charles Perry and Ron Browning ....
  
  
• The Kingsmen
  The Kingsmen
  The Kingsmen is a 1960s garage rock band from Portland, Oregon, United States. They are best known for their 1963 recording of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie", which held the #2 spot on the Billboard charts for six weeks...
  
  
• The Moving Sidewalks
• Canned Heat
  Canned Heat
  Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists...
  
  
• Tammy Montgomery (Tammi Terrell
  Tammi Terrell
  Thomasina Winifred Montgomery, known as Tammi Terrell was an American singer-songwriter most notable for her association with Motown and her duets with Marvin Gaye. As a teenager she recorded for the Scepter–Wand, Try Me and Checker record labels. She signed with Motown in April 1965 and enjoyed...
  
  )
• Roscoe Robinson
  Roscoe Robinson (musician)
  Roscoe Robinson is an American gospel and soul singer.Robinson recorded as a gospel solo artist in the 1950s with Trumpet Records, and sang in groups such as The Five Trumpets, Highway QCs, and The Fairfield Four. He began recording secular soul in the 1960s, and had two charting hits: "That's...
  
   (Rosco Robinson)