RECORDS
Independent label: WWA Records was a record label of management company Worldwide Artists. WWA appears to have had a fairly long and complicated birth. The first oblique mention of it in Billboard magazine was on the 2nd of September 1972, when it was reported that Worldwide Music, a subsidiary of Hemdale, was planning to launch a new 'Hemdale' label, through WEA. By November the plans had changed; in the issue of the 18th of that month Hemdale had consolidated its music division into a new firm, Excellency Music, and was looking for a distribution deal for a new label, possibly to be called 'Excellency'. Nothing seems to have come of that. The next move reported in Billboard (14th April 1973) was the planned setting up of a label called 'Heat' by Worldwide subsidiary Tweedrye Management, with Ken Mewis as label manager. Heat never made it to the label stage, but it appears to have existed as a publishing and production company, as witness the credits on the label scan. When at last the new label appeared, in the autumn of 1973, it was called WWA, and was licensed to Phonodisc. WWA had some well-known names on its books - Black Sabbath, Gentle Giant, The Groundhogs and Medicine Head - but it failed to make any impact on the Charts and expired, reportedly amidst a certain amount of hassle, in or around early 1975. Hemdale / Worldwide had taken NEMS Enterprises under its wing in 1972; after the demise of the WWA label the NEMS label was revived. Manufacture and distribution of WWA products was by Phonodisc. Usually Phonogram-group singles were numbered in 6000-000 series, but for some reason WWA stuck with a simple WWS-000 one. Thanks to Robert Lyons For The Info.
| 73 | Terraza Albert | Vadi Via | WWA | WWS | 001 |
| 73 | Black Sabbath | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | WWA | WWS | 002 |
| 73 | Phillips Jeff | I'Ll Never Fall In Love Again | WWA | WWS | 003 |
| 73 | Not Issued | WWA | WWS | 004 | |
| 73 | Black Sabbath | Sabbath Bloody Sabbath | WWA | WWS | 005 |
| 73 | Grounghogs | Sad Go Round | WWA | WWS | 006 |
| 74 | Snafu | Dixie Queen | WWA | WWS | 007 |
| 74 | Romantics | Electric Honey | WWA | WWS | 008 |
| 74 | Odyssey | Who | WWA | WWS | 009 |
| 74 | Captain Zahl | O Rainy Days | WWA | WWS | 010 |
| 74 | Bandy Legs | Ride Ride | WWA | WWS | 011 |
| 74 | Grounghogs | Plea Sing Plea Sing | WWA | WWS | 012 |
| 74 | Livsey Billy | Let'S Get Drunk And Ride The Dodgems | WWA | WWS | 013 |
| 74 | English Scott | Something'S Missin' In My Life | WWA | WWS | 014 |
| 74 | Medicine Head | Mama Come Out | WWA | WWS | 015 |
| 74 | Not Issued | WWA | WWS | 016 | |
| 74 | Gentle Giant | The Power And The Glory | WWA | WWS | 017 |
| 74 | Harrison Bobby | Cleopatra Jones | WWA | WWS | 018 |
| 74 | Captain Zahl | O Rainy Day | WWA | WWS | 019 |
| 74 | Gentle Giant | In The Glass House | WWA | WWP | 1001 |
