Welsh Teldisc Records Ltd.,

Business records of John Edwards and Welsh Teldisc Records Ltd, 1962-1976, including balance sheets, 1963-1974; sales summaries, 1963-1974; invoices and delivery notes, 1963-1972; records of stock movement, 1965-1966; records of copyright enquiries, permissions and royalties, 1963-1974; recording contracts, 1964-1967; recording log book, 1964-1970; lyrics and sleeve notes, with related correspondence, 1963-1968; copy outgoing correspondence, 1965-1967; general incoming correspondence, 1964-1976; and papers of Mrs Olwen Edwards, 1955-1976.

John Edwards (1905-1966), from Swansea, Glamorgan, was the founder of the Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music in 1955. His wife, Olwen, owned property in Brecon Road, Pontardawe, Glamorgan. John Edwards established Welsh Teldisc Records Ltd in 1962, and in the 1960s and 1970s the company issued Welsh-language popular music by Dafydd Iwan and others. It operated Teldisc Evangelical as a subsidiary. John Edwards died in 1966, and in 1974 the company was sold to Cymdeithas Llyfrau Ceredigion, a Welsh-language book publisher, which issued new Welsh Teldisc releases into the 1990s.

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Donated by Olwen Edwards per A. J. Heward Rees, Welsh Music Information Centre, Cardiff, 1988.

John Edwards (1905-1966), from Swansea, Glamorgan, was the founder of the Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music in 1955. His wife, Olwen, owned property in Brecon Road, Pontardawe, Glamorgan. John Edwards established Welsh Teldisc Records Ltd in 1962, and in the 1960s and 1970s the company issued Welsh-language popular music by Dafydd Iwan and others. It operated Teldisc Evangelical as a subsidiary. John Edwards died in 1966, and in 1974 the company was sold to Cymdeithas Llyfrau Ceredigion, a Welsh-language book publisher, which issued new Welsh Teldisc releases into the 1990s.

Title supplied from contents of fonds

A hard copy of the catalogue, in Minor Lists and Summaries 1989, pp. 97-98, is available at the National Library of Wales. The catalogue can be accessed online.

May 2003

Compiled by Annette Strauch for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: NLW, Minor Lists and Summaries 1989, pp. 97-98. The record company's name has often been misidentified as Welsh Teledisc.

Usual copyright regulations apply.

Action: All records have been retained.

Accruals are not expected.

Further records of Welsh Teldisc Ltd are in NLW, Papurau Cymdeithas Llyfrau Ceredigion.

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