Groove Merchant?

so i'm quite familiar with the label groove merchant, but i copped a record today put out by Verve. Jerome Richardson's "Groove Merchant". Was this the start of that label in some way, shape, or form? Is groove merchant a spin-off of verve? There is no date on the record.

anyone know whats up?

could be i kno verve is an old label most of there 60's stuff dont have issue dates that i have seen,the only way ive known what yr is by goggling it and finding some sort of info on it.

they may be related in some way.tho
if you find out post it up i've been wantng to start a thread on labels and subsidary labels to indies and and majors.
spome sort of time line thing you kno?

ede that would be quite ill. a very good idea. do you know much about groove merchant?

no ....not realy i just have some old stuff some 180grams of theres from 50's maybe even 40's jazz stuff. it's a flat black label with metalic verve writing on it , how they got that metalic print on the label is a mystery to me cause you need to hot stamp tat type of printing on , ands how they did it with oout warpin the record....?

maybe thats why they put there stuff on 180gram.

nah i'm up on verve i meant groove merchant.