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Dandelion Records was a British record label started in 1969 by the British DJ John Peel as a way to get the music he liked onto record. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Events Perhaps the two most famous musical events of 1969 were concerts John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 known professionally as John Peel, was an English Disc jockey, radio The record label Dandelion and its sister publishing company Biscuit were named after Peel's hamsters at the suggestion of his then flatmate Marc Bolan.

Around 28 albums were released by the label. One album was by the ageing Gene Vincent, with a cast of musicians including members of The Byrds and Steppenwolf. Gene Vincent, real name Vincent Eugene Craddock, ( February 11, 1935 - October 12, 1971) was an American Rock'n'roll pioneer The Byrds were a popular American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964 Steppenwolf is a rock band that helped establish Heavy metal music in the late 1960s along with bands like Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly Others were by younger or non-commercial artists, including Beau, Bridget St John, Medicine Head, Clifford T. Ward, David Bedford, Lol Coxhill, Stackwaddy, Tractor, Kevin Coyne/Siren, and Denmark's Burnin' Red Ivanhoe. Beau is a specialist twelve-string guitar player who first became known in the late 1960s through his recordings for John Peel 's Dandelion label Bridget St John is a singer and songwriter best known for the three albums she recorded between 1969 and 1972 for John Peel 's Dandelion record label Medicine Head was an English blues rock band, active in the 1970s Clifford Thomas Ward ( February 10, 1944, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire &mdash December 18, 2001) was a popular David Vickerman Bedford (born 4 August 1937 in London) is a British Composer and Musician. Lowen Coxhill, generally known as Lol Coxhill (born September 19, 1932, in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England) is a free Stackwaddy were a British rhythm and blues band from Salford Manchester who were active in the 1960s and 1970s Tractor is a band founded in Rochdale, Lancashire, England by guitarist/vocalist Jim Milne and drummer Steve Clayton in 1971 Kevin Coyne was a musician singer composer film-maker and a writer of lyrics stories and poems

The only record ever to make the UK charts was the single "(And the) Pictures in the Sky" by Medicine Head, which reached no.  22 in 1971. Beau's "1917 Revolution" made No. 1 in the Lebanon in 1969. Had Dandelion not turned down Roxy Music that same year, the story might well have been different. Roxy Music is an English Art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry ( vocals and keyboards)

Dandelion Records were distributed by, successively, CBS Records, Warner Bros. Records and Polydor. This article is about the record label founded in 2006 For the earlier CBS Records label see Columbia Records. Warner Bros Records Inc is an American Record label that operates as a wholly owned Subsidiary of Warner Music Group. Polydor Records is a Record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. The label ran until 1973 when it started to try and place its artists with other labels as its distribution via Polydor had ceased. Events January-February January 9 - Mick Jagger 's request for a Japanese visa is rejected on account of a 1969 drug bust putting an abrupt end It had issued about a dozen singles and two dozen albums. Several releases attracted a cult audience but never quite crossed into the mainstream, although one of the last singles, Clifford T. Ward's 'Coathanger', from his debut album 'Singer Songwriter', attracted a certain amount of airplay on Radio 1. Both Tractor and Medicine Head appeared fairly high in various album charts- Medicine Head would go on to appear on Top of the Pops and Tractor would get heavily involved in the hippy festival circuit which they still make rare appearances on to this day. A tractor is a Vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high Tractive effort at slow speeds for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used As Peel himself told Record Collector in 1994, 'when you can't afford full-page ads in the music press, artists become very resentful. Record Collector is the United Kingdom 's longest-running monthly music magazine . . there's no faster way of losing friends. '

One of the most curious albums issued by the label was a sampler, There is Some Fun Going Forward. There is Some Fun Going Forward is the only sampler album released by John Peel 's Dandelion Records label and was marketed by Polydor

Most Dandelion album recordings have been reissued on vinyl and/or CD, initially a batch of half a dozen came out on CD on Repertoire in the early 1990s, followed by the whole catalogue as two on one CDs by See For Miles Records in the mid 1990s. The Dandelion Records by Tractor and The Way We Live were reissued in the 2000s by Ozit Morpheus Records. As well as the Tractor CDs in current circulation on Ozit Morpheus, some of the Dandelion catalogue has now started to appear on Cherry Red Records

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Dandelion Records Discography

Albums

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Singles

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Footnotes

  1. ^ http://www.vinylnet.co.uk/record-label-discographies.asp link
  2. ^ http://www.vinylnet.co.uk/record-label-discographies.asp link

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There is Some Fun Going Forward is the only sampler album released by John Peel 's Dandelion Records label and was marketed by Polydor A sampler is a type of Compilation album generally offered at a reduced price to showcase a selection of artists signed to a particular record label This is a list of notable Record labels Due to the large number of entries the list has been divided by the first character of the label's name See also
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