TY AR Y GRAIG
RECORDS
Independent label: A Welsh label Ty Ar Y Graig started out in
1969 as an independent company, initially based in Gelliwig, Porthmadog.
In 1971 it began to distribute records made by another Welsh independent, Sain
Records, and the following year the two companies appear to have forged closer
links - at that point both operated out of the same premises, in Llandwrog,
Caernarfonshire. In 1973 Sain seems to have become the senior partner,
with Ty Ar Y Graig EPs carrying a credit to that company on the rears of their
sleeves. The final Ty Ar Y Graig records were issued in 1974. Ty Ar Y
Graig concentrated on EPs, which it initially numbered in the TAG EP-200s; the
'EP' part of the prefix was dropped in or around 1971. It seems that for
some reason the numbers started at 231. TAG-242 was a single, and there
were also at least three LPs, which were numbered in a TAG LP-1000 series.
The label design remained basically the same throughout, but the font of the
logo altered by the start of 1972 (perhaps at the time of the link-up with
Sain?), becoming bolder, and the colours changed from yellow through orange to
red; TAG EP-239 had a white-on-blue label. Manufacture was by a number of
different companies, including Orlake, Pye and EMI. A couple of the later
EPs have Pye-style matrix numbers in the run-off, narrow EMI-style dinking
perforations, and 'crater' markings around the spindle hole that are reminiscent
of Irish pressings - were these mastered by Pye and perhaps pressed by EMI
Ireland.
69
Sian Puw
O Enau Plant Bychain - Sian Puw
Yn Canu
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG EP
231
69
And Clychau
Canu Yn Clychau
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG EP
232
69
Hogiau'R
Garreg
Hogiau'R
Garreg
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG EP
233
70
And brithyll
And Brithyll EP
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG EP
234
70
Côr Meibion Y Brythoniaid
Y Arglwydd Yw Fy
Mugail
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG EP
235
70
Beryl Hall
Hwyl Farw Hen
Ffasiwn
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG EP
236
70
Eirlys Perry
Eirlys Perry
Ep
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG EP
237
70
Not Traced
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG EP
238
70
Llwyn
Lleisiau'R
Wyt Ti'N
Cofio
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG EP
239
70
Hogiau'R Moelwyn
Hogiau'R
Moelwyn
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG EP
240
70
Not Traced
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG
241
71
Llwyn Hogia
Y Gell
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG
242
72
Y
Mellt
Rhaid I Gymru Ddeffro
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG
243
72
Genod Ni
Mae'R Oll Yn
Gysegredig
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG
244
73
Trebor
Edwards
Ave Maria
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG
245
73
Triawd Y Bryn
Brynrhydyrarian
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG
246
73
Yr Awelon
Eponymous Ep
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG
247
73
Parti Eryri
Cei
Caernarfon
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG
248
74
Trebor
Edwards
Duw Wyr
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG
249
74
Glannau Y Merched
Yr Hefro
TY AR Y GRAIG
TAG
250