Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Welsh Teldisc Records Ltd.
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
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.