Rainy Wednesday Records

Rainy Wednesday Records was a record label created by novelty artist Dickie Goodman in 1973.

Creation

In his long career an artist and producer, Goodman released records under a slew of label names, including Luniverse, Rori, Mark-X, 20th Century and Cotique. In 1973, Goodman met the label's co-founder on a rainy Wednesday in New York, providing its name. Goodman started the label number at 201, the area code of his New Jersey residence at the time.
All but one of Rainy Wednesday's releases were in Goodman's standard "break-in" style, in which an interviewer asks a question, only to have it "answered" with a snippet of a current hit record. Goodman himself and John & Ernest were the only two artists to appear on Rainy Wednesday.

Later career

Dickie Goodman folded Rainy Wednesday Records in 1975, but continued to release music under several other label names, including Cash, Shark, Wacko and Rhino Records. Goodman's last recording, "Safe Sex Report", was released on the Goodname label in 1987; he died in 1989.