The record label of Granada Television. Several TV companies tried to branch out into the area of record production, but only the BBC really made a go of it. Granada ventured into the market every now and again over the years, but it appears to have managed only a handful of albums, an EP by the cast of Coronation Street, and a couple of singles, neither of which made any impression on the Chart. For some reason there was a gap of three years between the singles, Ken Goodwin's, 'Keep Your Heart' (GT-101) coming out in 1972, and Bernard Manning's, 'Life Is Only What You Make It' (GT-102) following in February 1975; during that time the label design changed considerably. The Bernard Manning record was distributed by Transatlantic; thanks to the positioning of the titles any copy that had the centre pressed out would immediately have been rendered nameless.
Copyright 2006 Robert Lyons.