Based upon a work published in 1985, we revisit a model in which vector mesons arise by virtue of quark spin-flip with accompanying gluon emission. In the 1985 article the above model was introduced within the context of hadron pair production in uniform magnetic fields. In the present work we apply said model to the much simpler context of colliding beams. Twenty-one years ago the model was employed to theoretically determine the widths of the J and the ϒ mesons. We found at that time reasonable agreements with experiment, but only if the charge on the charm quark (qc) had magnitude 1/3 and that of the bottom quark (qb), 2/3, whereas the literature at that time established |qc| = 2/3 and |qb| = 1/3, thus putting forth an apparent conflict between the theoretical gluon emission model and experiment. Twenty years later, moreover, firm evidence is well in place that |qc| = 2/3 and |qb| = 1/3 – that, in other words, the apparent conflict mentioned above stems from either an error in the construct of the theoretical model or its misinterpretation. As the model was developed in the 1970s as a description of the production and decay of the ρ-meson, which decays almost exclusively into pion pairs, and as a description of the kaon branch of the φ-meson, which decays exclusively into kaon pairs, we believe the errant predictions as to the quark charges involved in the J and ϒ are due to misinterpretation of the model. In the early 1980s it was not well known what the decay products of the J and ϒ were. Now we know that almost no decays of either object involve pairs of light hadrons, whereas the construct of the gluon emission model assumes such in its application. Nevertheless, we are able to show in the work which follows that if we pursue an “as if” scheme involving the J and ϒ, i.e., we treat each as if it decayed into a pair of light hadrons, we may derive a viable strong coupling parameter function through application of the gluon emission model to electron/positron decay of the ϒ. Additionally, partially by carrying out a test of the basic precepts of the model as applied to the K*(892), we suggest that the resolution of the abovementioned misinterpretation lies in a virtual transfer of four-momentum from the heavy quark pair responsible for the mass of the given meson to the quark pair of next lesser mass, one of which then undergoes the required spin-flip in the formation of the relevant spin one resonance. Finally, speculations based upon the gluon emission model as to the “toponium” vector state are made.