RECORDS
Verve Forecast the successor to MGM / Verve's 'Verve Folkways' label. Verve Folkways was set up in 1966 and seems to have functioned mainly as as a contemporary singer / songwriter label. After half a dozen issues it was revamped, and was given the more dynamic name of Verve Forecast.The label design remained basically the same, as did the VS-1500 numerical series, but several numbers were missed out, the Forecasts starting from VS-1510. In late 1970 MGM ended its manufacture and distribution deal with EMI and moved to Polydor; Verve and Verve Forecast went with it and were allotted one of Polydor's seven-digit numerical series for their singles, 2009-000. The label design remained essentially unchanged, though Polydor's dinked centres and triangular 'spider' adaptors became a feature. Sadly there was not a lot of life left in either Verve or its offspring, from a singles' point of view, and just three Verve Forecasts were released, all of them in 1971, before the label was closed down. All of the tracks on them were reissues. The last Verve Forecast, Ella Fitzgerald's 1957 recordings of 'Manhattan' and 'Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye' (2009-017; 8/71), which had been part of Polydor's family-wide 'Action Replay' series, was flipped and reissued on Verve in March 1976. Sporadic reissues on Verve appeared at wide intervals during the '80s and '90s, but no more was heard of Verve Forecast until it was revived in the late 1990s and given a new lease of life as a proper contemporary label. Distributed By Polydor Records. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
| 70 | Richie Havens | There'S A Hole In The Future / Minstrel From Gault | VERVE FORECAST | 2009 | 001 |
| 70 | Tim Hardin | If I Were A Carpenter | VERVE | 2009 | 002 |
| 70 | Righteous Brothers | Woman, Man Needs Ya | VERVE | 2009 | 003 |
| 70 | Richie Havens | Handsome Johnny | MGM | 2009 | 004 |
| 70 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 005 | |
| 70 | Tim Hardin | Hang On To A Dream | VERVE FORECAST | 2009 | 006 |
| 70 | Louis Armstrong | Stormy Weather | VERVE | 2009 | 007 |
| 70 | Ella Fitzgerald | Summertime / Stompin' At The Savoy | VERVE | 2009 | 008 |
| 70 | Stan Getz - Charlie Byrd | Desafinado / Samba De Uma Nota So | VERVE | 2009 | 009 |
| 70 | Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto | The Girl From Ipanema / Desafinado ? | VERVE | 2009 | 010 |
| 70 | Ella Fitzgerald | Mack The Knife / The Lady Is A Tramp | VERVE | 2009 | 011 |
| 70 | Oscar Peterson | Night Train / Liza | VERVE | 2009 | 012 |
| 70 | Jimmy Smith | The Cat / Respect | VERVE | 2009 | 013 |
| 70 | Wes Montgomery | Bumpin' / Love Theme From The Sandpiper | VERVE | 2009 | 014 |
| 71 | Jimmy Smith | Respect / The Cat | VERVE | 2009 | 015 |
| 71 | Astrud Gilberto | Sing Me A Rainbow | VERVE FORECAST | 2009 | 016 |
| 71 | Ella Fitzgerald | Manhattan | VERVE FORECAST | 2009 | 017 |
| 71 | Artie Butler | Feelin' Alright | VERVE | 2009 | 018 |
| 71 | Astrud Gilberto | La Sombra De Tu Sonrisa / Trenes, Barcos Y Aviones | VERVE | 2009 | 019 |
| 72 | Nino Tempo Orchestra / April Stevens | The Story Of Love | VERVE | 2009 | 020 |
| 72 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 021 | |
| 72 | The Blobs | Son Of Blob / Party Pooper | VERVE | 2009 | 022 |
| 72 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 023 | |
| 72 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 024 | |
| 72 | Lalo | Latin Soul / Dirty Harry | VERVE | 2009 | 025 |
| 72 | Righteous Brothers | He | VERVE | 2009 | 026 |
| 73 | Louis Armstrong | Uncle Satchmo'S Lullaby | VERVE | 2009 | 027 |
| 73 | Ella Fitzgerald | Mr. Paganini | VERVE | 2009 | 028 |
| 74 | Ellie Greenwich | Luego Me Beso (And Then He Kissed Me) | VERVE | 2009 | 029 |
| 74 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 030 | |
| 74 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 031 | |
| 74 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 032 | |
| 74 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 033 | |
| 74 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 034 | |
| 74 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 035 | |
| 74 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 036 | |
| 74 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 037 | |
| 74 | Not Traced | VERVE | 2009 | 038 | |
| 74 | Spike Jones | Black And Blue Danube Waltz | VERVE | 2009 | 039 |
