The record label of the TV company. HTV Cymru started out in 1968 as Harlech Television and changed its name in the spring of 1970. In the '70s and '80s it was involved in several record releases but it seems only to have got its logo on their labels twice. Fortunately for the purposes of this site, one of them was from 1974. What I assume were two episodes from the children's series 'Miri Mawr' came out on the Sain label with a HTV logo added; 'Byta Allan' was on one side and ''Steddfod' on the other, and the catalogue number was SAIN-49 E (1). HTV only appeared as a label in its own right in 1984, when it was responsible for a single which offered 'O 'Steddfod I 'Steddfod' by Caryl Parry Jones and Huw Edward Jones on one side and Caryl's solo ''Steddfod Yn Yr Wyddgrug' on the other (2). It received sleeve credits on another single, 'Annwyl Ser' b/w 'Ser' by Hogia'r Docia (Recordiau Ser, SER-001; 1980) - all those 'e's should have circumflexes - and at least three albums featuring music and / or songs from the company's television programmes: 'Caneuon Sion a Sian' by Dai Jones and Jenny Ogwen (Wren, WRL-559; 1976); 'Kidnapped' by Vladimir Cosma (Decca, MOR-R-525; 1979); and 'The Dragon Has Two Tongues' by Robin Williamson (Towerbell, TVLP-001; 1985). The logo also appeared on the cover of another Decca album, 'The Story Of 'Kidnapped' by Brian Pettifer (DPA-6307 / 6308; 1979. Thanks to Nicholas Hough for supplying the Sain / HTV scan.
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