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Posterity Records was a Canadian record label established by Harvey Glatt, that was started in 1963 and existed, in corporate form, from 1975 to 1981.
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Harvey Glatt, an Ottawa-based music manager, promoter, retailer and radio station owner, formally established Posterity Records in 1976, following a 1963 release, under the Posterity label, of a record by Canadian poet Irving Layton. During its approximate six-year existence in the 1970s and early 1980s, the label released records by Lenny Breau, the Downchild Blues Band, Ian Tamblyn and others. It was distributed by Glatt-owned TCD Records and Tapes, short for "Treble Clef Distribution". During this period, the label also distributed, as Posterity-Woodshed, records produced by Woodshed Records, a private label owned by Canadian singer-songwriter and producer David Essig. Included in Posterity-Woodshed releases was the seminal album, Blackie and the Rodeo King, by Willie P. Bennett, released in 1978. Posterity Records ceased issuing new releases in 1981 and assigned its distribution rights to Phonodisc Limited, at the time Canada's largest independent manufacturer and distributor of records and tapes. The Posterity-Woodshed label continued to issue new releases until Posterity Records completely ceased operations in 1984. Woodshed Records was thereafter reestablished by David Essig as a separate entity.
Posterity Records' first release was a recording of poet Irving Layton reading at Le Hibou Coffee House in 1963, produced by William Hawkins, with liner notes by Roy MacSkimming. Layton was reading from his book A Red Carpet From The Sun.