The Marmalade label ceased to exist in 1969 when it ran out of funds.[3]
Aftermath
Driscoll again performed "This Wheel's on Fire" — without Auger — as the closing title music for
BBC TV's Absolutely Fabulous comedy show between 1990 and 1996.[4] She was partnered on that version of the
Bob Dylan/
Rick Danko song by
Adrian Edmondson, the husband of
AbFab writer and star Jennifer Saunders.[5][6]
After a time managing
French progressive rock band
Magma, Gomelsky headed for New York City in the mid-1970s, where he co-founded Utopia Records, a label that was to have had the same alternative innovative focus as Marmalade.[7] Gomelsky produced Magma's Live/Hhaï album for Utopia in 1975. Utopia, co-founded with Kevin Eggers, was allegedly financed by then-RCA president Ken Glancy. Gomelsky was slowly sidelined, and Eggers effectively took over the reins. Utopia later went to the wall, with
Tomato Records growing out of the wreckage and taking over Utopia's back catalogue.[8] Tomato re-released Live/Hhaï in 1978. Gomelsky's production appeared again, in versions of varying lengths, on the French 'Label Du Bon Independent' in 1985, on Paris-based '7th Records' in 1989, on the UK's
Charly Records, and again on Tomato Records in 1996, on Japan's Victor Records and again on Charly in 2001. It was issued again on 7th Records, this time in Japan, in 2009.[9]
Discography
Singles
The Roaring 60's - "We Love The Pirates" / "I'm Leaving Town" (1966, Marmalade 598001)
Blossom Toes - "What On Earth" / "Mrs. Murphy's Budgerigar" / "Look At Me I'm You" (October 1967, Marmalade 598002)
Brian Auger & The Trinity - "Red Beans And Rice" / "Part 2" (1967, Marmalade 598003)
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - "Save Me" / "Part 2" (1967, Marmalade 598004)
Chris Barber's Band - "Cat Call" / "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (1967, Marmalade 598005)
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - "
This Wheel's on Fire" / "A Kind Of Love-In" (No. 5 UK, October 1967, Marmalade 598006)
Kevin Westlake & Gary Farr - "Everyday" / "Green" (1968, Marmalade 598007)