HIS MASTER'S VOICE
RECORDS
Independent label: The
first three Re-issued records was part of EMI's Past Masters series. HMV or 'His
Master's Voice' has for long been a very important name in the music industry
and used to be a large record label. The name 'His Master's Voice' originates
from the label's logo which is a terrier dog listening to a gramophone recording
of his master's voice. The logo is a painting of the dog Nipper and it was
bought, along with the UK rights to it, by the Gramophone Company in 1899. The
Gramophone Company didn't use the logo on their records until 1909. Until then,
the image had only been used in the USA by the 'Victor Talking Machine Company'
on their records. They continued to use it and so did their successor RCA which
bought Victor in 1929 along with their shares in the Gramophone Company. EMI was
created in 1931 and ultimately ended owning the Gramophone Company which was
eventuallu called HMV. RCA owned shares in EMI until 1939 when it sold them but
kept hold of the name 'His Master's Voice' in the USA. EMI kept distributing RCA
records until 1957 when their collaboration was interrupted. With the arrival of
the CD, EMI eventually dropped the 'His Master's Voice' trademark and replaced
it with 'EMI Classics', a name which could be used all around the globe. The HMV
trademark is now owned by the HMV retail company in Britain which owns over 400
shops around the globe. They have no current ties to EMI having sold all the
shops to the HMV group in 1998. The first HMV shop opened in London in 1921 and
they still use a modified version of the Nipper painting as their logo.
Distributed By EMI Records.


83 |
The Hollies |
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother |
PARLOPHONE |
PMS |
1001 |
83 |
Gerry And The Pacemakers |
Ferry 'Cross The Mersey |
COLUMBIA |
PMS |
1002 |
83 |
Manfred Mann |
Do Wah Diddy Diddy |
HIS MASTER'S
VOICE |
PMS |
1003 |

85 |
Various
Artists |
Barcarolle (From The
Tales Of Hoffmann) |
HIS MASTER'S
VOICE |
CATNAP |
1 |

85 |
Aled
Jones |
Walking In The
Air |
HIS MASTER'S
VOICE |
ALED |
1 |
86 |
Aled Jones |
A Winter
Story |
HIS MASTER'S
VOICE |
ALED |
2 |

85 |
Sarah Brightman And Paul Miles-Kingston |
Pie Jesu |
HIS MASTER'S
VOICE |
WEBBER |
1 |

86 |
The King's
Singers |
Blackbird |
HIS MASTER'S
VOICE |
KINGS |
1 |
87 |
Kiri Te
Kanawa |
I Got
Rhythm |
HIS MASTER'S
VOICE |
GERSH |
1 |
88 |
Per
Yarroh |
Laughing
Inside |
HIS MASTER'S
VOICE |
PY |
1 |