DANDELION RECORDS
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www.dandelionrecords.co.uk
Start : 1969
OWNER : JOHN PEEL & CLIVE SHELDON
Distr. : CBS / Warner / Polydor
Style : psychedelic / blues rock / hard rock / prog.rock /
ALBUMS DISCOGRAPHY : series 63 750
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63 750 BRIDGET ST. JOHN ASK ME NO QUESTION 09.1969
To Be Without A Hitch / Autumn Lullaby / Curl Your To Es / Like Never
Before / Curious Crystal Of Unusual Purity / Barefoot And Hot Pavements /
I Like To Be With You In The Sun / Lizard-Long-Tongue Boy / Hello Again /
Many Happy Returns / Broken Faith / Ask Me No Question
(Note : gatefold sleeve)
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63 751 B E A U B E A U 09.1969
Welcome / Imagination / 1917 Revolution / Soldier Of The Willow / Fishing
Song / Painted Vase / Pillar Of Economy / Nations Pride / Sun Dancer /
Rain / Morning Sun / Summer Has Gone / Ways Of Winter / Welcome Tag Piece
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63 752 PRINCIPAL EDWARDS MAGIC THEATRE : SOUNDTRACK .1969
Enigmatic Insomniac Machine / Sacrifice / Death Of Don Quixote / Third
Sonnet To Sundry Notes Of Music / To A Broken Guitar / Pinky-A Mystery
Cycle
(Note : gatefold sleeve )
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63 753 OCCASIONAL WORLD:THE YEAR OF THE GREAT LEAP SIDEWAYS .1970
ENSEMBLE
Open The Box / Trixie's Song / Train Set / Sweet Tea Song / Clic Clic /
Nuts And Bolts / I'm So Glad / Barnyard Suite / Skin Diver / Missed My
Times / Mrs. Jones / Hortensia / Close The Box / ....
(Note : LP contain 24 songs)
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63 754 GENE VINCENT I'M BACK AND I'M PROUD 02.1970
Rockin' Robin / In The Pines / Be-Bop-A-Lula / Rainbow At Midnight /
Black Letter / White Lightning / Sexy Ways / Ruby Baby / Lotta Lovin' /
Circle Never Broken / No.9 / Scarlet Ribbons
(Note : gatefold sleeve)
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63 755 SIREN SIREN 03.1970
Ze-Ze-Ze-Ze / Get Right Church / Rock Me Baby / Wake Up My Children /
Wasting My Time / 16 Women / First Time I Saw Your Face / Gardener Man /
And I Wonder / War Is Over / Asylum / Bertha Lee / I Wonder Where
Line up : Kevin Coyne (vo.,gt.)
Dave Clague (gt.,bass)
Nick Cudworth (pn.,gt.)
John Chichester (gt.)
Tat Meager (drums) Dave Clague (prod.)
plus : Colin Wood (flt.,keyb.) Tom Allom (prod.)
(Note : US cat.nr. D9 104)
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63 756 MIKE HART MIKE HART BLEEDS 03.1970
Yawney Morning Song / Shelter Song / Ring Song / Please Bring Back The
Birch For The Milkman / Artie's Wife / Disbelief Blues / Aberfan / Dance
Mister Morning Man / Almost Liverpool 8
Line up : Mike Hart (vo.,gt.)
Jan Schelhaas (pn.) Rick Sanders (gt.)
Dave Paul (bass) Andy Donaldson (harm.)
John Skorksy (drums) Neil Ford (gt.,keyb.)
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63 757 MEDICINE HEAD NEW BOTTLES,OLD MEDICINE 05.1970
When The Night Falls / Odee Baby / Next Time The Sun Comes Round / This
Love Of Old / Oh My Heart To Peace / Do It Now / Be It As We Are / Fire
Under Mountain / Two Men Now / Crazy 'bout You Baby / Goin' Home / His
Guiding Hand / Walkin' Blues
Line up : Peter Hope Evans (harm.,percs.,gt.,vo.)
John Fiddler (vo.,gt.,drums)
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[ All the above LP's were distributed by CBS]
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SERIES K 49 000 (for Germany) /// DAN 8000 (for UK)
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K 49 001 / DAN 8001 SIREN STRANGE LOCOMOTION .1971
Relaxing With Bonnie Lou / Some Dark Day / Hot Potato / Soon / Gigolo /
I'm All Aching / Strange Locomotion / Shake My Hand / Lonesome Ride /
Fetch Me My Woman / Fat Moaning Minnie / Squeeze Me
Line up : Kevin Coyne (vo.,gt.)
Nick Cudworth (pn.,vo.)
Dave Clague (gt.,bass)
Mick Gratton (gt.)
Tat Meager (drums) Dave Clague (prod.)
(Note : gatefold sleeve )
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K 49 002 / DAN 8002 PRINCIPAL EDWARDS : ASMOTO RUNNING BAND .1971
MAGIC THEATRE
The Asmoto Side : McAlpine's Dream / McAlpine Versus The Asmoto / The
Asmoto Running Band / Asmoto Celebration / Further Asmoto Celebration /
The Gambini Side : Total Glycerol Esther / Freef (R') All / Autumn Lady
Dancing Song / The Kattering Song / Weird Song Of Breaking Through At
Last
Line up : Belinda Bourquin (violin,rec.)
David Jones (percs.,bongas)
Jeremy Ensor (bass)
Martin Stellman (vo.)
Roger Swallow (tabla,xyl.,drums,congas)
Root (gt.,bass)
Vivienne McAuliffe (vocal)
(Note : gatefold sleeve )
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K 49 003 / DAN 8003 STACKWADDY STACKWADDY .1971
Road Runner / Bring It To Jerome / Mothballs / Sure Nuff'n'Yes I Do /
Love Story //// Susie Q / Country Line Special / Rolling Stone / Mystic
Eyes / Kentucky
(Note : gatefold sleeve )
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K 49 004 / DAN 8004 THE WAY WE LIVE : A CANDLE FOR JUDITH .1971
King Dick II / Squares / Siderial / Angle / Storm / Willow / Madrigal /
The Way Ahead
(Note : gatefold sleeve )
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K 49 005 / DAN 8005 MEDICINE HEAD HEAVY ON THE DRUM .1971
There's Always A Light / Any Day Now / Medicine Pony / Thou Shalt Not
Pass / Expectation Blues / To Train Time / Call On You Saviour (And Sing
With The Drum) / Have No Fear / You Got Me Rockin' And Rollin' / Once
There Was A Day / (Sometimes) Even The Moon Has No Face
Line up : Peter Hope Evans (harm.)
John Fiddler (vo.,drums,gt.)
Keith Relf (prod.)
(Note : gatefold sleeve )
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K 49 006 / DAN 8006 B E A U CREATION .1971
Nine Minutes / There Once Was A Time / Spider / April Meteor / Is This
Your Day / Creation / Blind Faith / Ferris Street / Release / Reason To
Be / Silence Returns
(Note : gatefold sleeve )
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K 49 007 / DAN 8007 BRIDGET ST.JOHN : SONGS FOR THE GENTLE MAN .1971
Day A Way / City Crazy / Early Morning Song / Back To Stay / Seagull
Sunday / If You'd Been There / Song For The Laird Of Connaught Hall /
Making Losing Better / Lady And The Gentle Man / Downderry Daze / Pebble
And The Man / It Seems Very Strange
(Note : gatefold sleeve )
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K 49 008 / DSD 8008 LOL COXHILL EAR OF BEHOLDER .1971
Introduction / Hungerford / Deviation Dance / Two Little Pigeons / Don
Alfonso / Open Piccadilly / Feedback / Vorblifa - Exit / Isensatez /
Conversation / Mango Walk / Piccadilly With Goofs / Rasa Moods /
Collective Improvisation / I Am The Walrus / Rhythmic Hooter / Loverman /
Zoological Fun / Little Triple One Shot / Dat's Why Darkies Were Born /
Series Of Superbly Played Mellotron Codas
(Note : gatefold sleeve , double LP )
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DAN 8009 CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND MAGIC BAND : MERSEYTROUT 2LP .2011
- LIVE IN LIVERPOOL 1980
LP 1 Toaster / Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man / Abba Zabba / Hot
Head / Dirty Blue Jeans //// Best Batch Yet / One Man Sentence /
Safe As Milk / Flavour Bud Living / Her Eyes Are A Blue Million
Miles / One Red Rose That I Mean
LP 2 Doctor Dark / Bat Chain Puller / My Human Gets Me Blues / Sugar'n
Spikes / Veterans'Day Poppy //// Dropout Boogie / Sheriff Of Hong
Kong / Kandy Korn / Suction Prints / Big Eyed Beans From Venus
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DAN 8010 see "Ozit Morpheus" discography-s.8000 for details
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DAN 8011 see "Ozit Morpheus" discography s.8000 for details
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DAN 8012 STACKWADDY : THE LOST DANDELION JAMS LP 03.2013
SIDE 1 What's The Guiness Like, Gary Moore Asked Me
Put A Top On That
I Dried My Sticks On A Washing Line
Missing Jaguar From Timperley
Graham Gouldman Ashed What's Them Chords?
He Broke A Chair To Make Drumsticks
SIDE 2 US Army Deserter
No We Won't Mix That Said John Peel
I Got Ozzy By The Throat
Phone Call At Salford's Black Lion Pub
Selwood Ran Off And Hid From Us
Mike Sweeney Was Never In Stack Waddy
Collyhurst Or Timperley
(Note : LP/180 g., 400 numb.copies on red vinyl, galefold sleeve)
see "Ozit-Morpheus" section for following discography
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Note : all the above LP's were distributed by Warner Brothers !
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SERIES 2310 145
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Note : all the below LP's distributed by Polydor Records
2310 145 BURNIN' RED IVANHOE W.W.W 12.1971
2nd Floor / Croydon / W.W.W. / Alez-Vous Kaskelainen / Kaske-Vous
Karsemose / All About All / Oblong Serenade / Cucumber - Porcupine
Line up : Kim Menzer (flt.,violin,tuba)
Ole Fick (vo.,gt.)
Freddy Hansson (prod.)
Karsten Vogel (ss,as,org.,pn.)
Jess Staehr (bass,percs.)
Bo Thrige Andersen (drums)
Note : gatefold sleeve )
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2310 146 SUPERSISTER TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER 01.1971
She Was Naked / A Girl Named You / No Tree Will Grow (On Too High A
Mountain) / Energy (Out Of Future) / Higher
Line up : Robert Jan Stips (vo.,vibr.,vo.)
Ron Van Eck (bass)
Marco Vrolijk (drums)
Sacha Van Geest (vo.,flt.)
(Note : gatefold sleeve)
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2310 165 DAVID BEDFORD NURSE'S SONG WITH ELEPHANTS 03.1971
It's Easier Than It Looks / Nurse's Song With Elephants / Some Bright
Stars For Queen's College / Trona / Sad And Lonely Faces
(Note : gatefold sleeve )
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2310 166 MEDICINE HEAD DARK SIDE OF THE MOON .1972
Back To The Wall / In Your Eyes / Sittin' In The Sun / On This Road / You
And Me / Kum On / Only To Do What Is True / You Can Make It Here
Line up : John Fiddler (vo.,gt.,pn.)
Keith Relf (bass,prod.)
John Davis (drums)
(Note : cat.nr. for cassete - 3100 157)
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2310 193 BRIDGET ST.JOHN THANK YOU FOR 06.1972
Nice / Thank You For... / Lazarus / Good Baby Goodbye / Love Minus Zero ,
No Limit / Silver Coin / Happy Day / Fly High / To Leave Your Cover /
Every Day / A Song Is As Long As It Wants To Go On
Line up : Bridget St.John (vo.,gt.,keyb.)
Rick Sanders (gt.) Rick Kemp (bass)
Ian Whiteman (keyb.) Tim Renwick (gt.)
John Martyn (gt.) Pip Pyle (drums)
Andy Roberts (gt.) Willie Wilson (drums)
Gordon Huntley (steel) Dave Mattacks (drums)
Bruce Thomas (bass)
(Note : gatefold sleeve , cat.nr. for cassette - 3100 168)
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2310 211 MIKE HART & COMRADES : BASHER,CHALKY,PONGO AND ME 10.1972
Joke / Intro / Nell's Song / Interlude / Dear Bathsheeba Everdene /
Pocket Full Of Dough / Influences : (a) Filth - Rate Idea ; (b) Oh
Calcutta ! ; (c) The Critics , (d) Overhead Sitting Next A Beautiful Girl
In A Bar In Paris / Bitchin' On A Train / I Have Been A Rover / Sing Song
: (a) Old Ones , New Ones ; (b) Kids In A Bar ; (c) Sing Something Simple
/ Christmas : (a) Moet Et Chandos ; (b) Xmas Song ; (c) Dracula /
Jousters / War , Violence , Heroism And Such Like Stupidity : (a) Senator
Grimaldi ; (b) If You've Ever Been In Love Before You'll Known There Are
bad Times Along With The Good ; (c) Rupert Brooke ; (d) The Prime
Minister Speaks ; (e) Jerusalem ; (f) Pongo / Epilogue Inc. Land Of Hope
And Glory
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2310 216 CLIFFORD T.WARD SINGER SONGWRITER 10.1972
Coathanger / Sam / Leader / A Dream / Anticipation / Rayne / The Session
Singer / Carrie / God Help Me / The Cause Is Good / Sympathy / Circus
Girl / You Knock When You Should Come In
2310 217 TRACTOR TRACTOR 11.1972
About Yourself / Little Girl In Yellow / The Watcher / All Ends Up /
Shubunkin / Hope In Favour / Everytime It Happens / Make The Journey
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2310 228 KEVIN COYNE CASE HISTORY 11.1972
God Bless The Bride / White Horse / Uggly's Song / Need Somebody / Evil
Island Home / Araby / My Message To The People / Mad Boy / Sand All
Yellow
(Note : cat.nr. 2310 228 or 2383 228)
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2310 231 STACKWADDY BUGGER OFF 11.1972
Rosalyn / Willie The Pimp / I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man / It's All Over
Now / Several Yards / You Really Got Me / I'm A Lover Not A Fighter /
Meat Pies 'Ave Come But Band's Not 'Ere Yet / It Ain't Easy / Long Tall
Shorty (Mainly) / Repossession Boogie / The Girl From Ipanema
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2485 021 various artist : THERE IS SOME FUN GOING FORWARD 12.1972
(Note : with poster)
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DANDELION RECORDS SINGLES DISCOGRAPHY
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4403 B E A U 1917 Revolution .1970
Sleeping Town
4404 BRIDGET ST.JOHN To B Without A Hitch .1970
Autumn Lullaby
4405 PRINCIPAL EDWARDS Ballad Of The Big Girl Now .1970
MAGIC THEATRE Lament For Earth
4493 COYNE - CLAGUE Bottle Up And Go .1970
Mandy Lee
4494 COYNE - CLAGUE The Stride .1970
I Wonder Where
4596 GENE VINCENT Be Bop A Lula '69 1969
Ruby Baby
4661 MEDICINE HEAD His Guilding Hand 1969
This Love Of Old
4781 MIKE HART Yawney Morning Song 02.1970
Almost Liverpool
4786 BILL ODDIE On Ilkia Moor Baht'at .1970
Hare Khrishna
4974 GENE VINCENT White Lightning .1970
Scarlet Ribbons
5075 MEDICINE HEAD Coast To Coast .1970
All For Tomorrow
5119 STACKWADDY Roadrunner .1970
Kentucky
4494 (?) MANDY LEE Bottle Up And Go Pt.1 .1969
Bottle Up And Go Pt.2
DAN 7001 PRINCIPAL EDWARDS MAGIC THEATRE : The Asmoto .1971
Running Band
STACKWADDY Mothballs
SIREN Lonesome Ride
THE WAY WE LIVE King Dick II
DAN 7002/K 19004 SIREN Strange Locomotion .1971
I'm All Aching
DAN 7003/K 19002 MEDICINE HEAD (And The) Pictures In The Sky 06.1971
Natural Sight
DAN 7004/K 19003 YAMASUKIS Yamasuki .1972
Aieaoa
Warner WB 8019 BRIDGET ST.JOHN If You've Got Money 10.1970
Yep
Note : all the below singles were distributed by Polydor
2001 253 COXHILL-BEDFORD Pretty Little Girl .1971
d u o Pretty Little Girl (version)
2001 276 MEDICINE HEAD Kum On .1972
On The Land
2001 280 BRIDGET ST.JOHN Fly High .1972
There's A Place
Suzanne
(picture sleeve)
2001 282 TRACTOR Stone Glory .1972
Marie
As You Say
2001 325 MEDICINE HEAD Only To Do What Is True .1972
Sittin' In The Sun
2001 327 CLIFFORD T.WARD Carrie .1972
Sidetrick
2001 331 STACKWADDY You Really Got Me .1972
Willie The Pimp
2001 357 KEVIN COYNE Cheat Me .1972
Flowering Cherry
2001 361 BRIDGET ST.JOHN Nice .1972
Goodbye Baby Goodbye
2001 379 SUPERSISTER No Tree Will Grows .1972
She Was Naked
2001 382 CLIFFORD T.WARD Coathanger .1972
Rayne
2001 383 MEDICINE HEAD How Does It Feel .1972
Morning Light
2058 214 A. COXHILL-BEDFORD DUO Mood .1972
B. WILL DANDY & DANDYLETTES : Sonny Boy/Oh Mein Papa
DANDELION RECORDS US RELEASES :
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Distr. : Elektra
D 9 101 BRIDGET ST.JOHN ASK ME NO QUESTIONS LP 1970
D 9 102 GENE VINCENT I'M BACK AND I'M PROUD LP 1970
D 9 103 PRINCIPAL EDWARDS MAGIC THEATRE : SOUNDTRACK LP 1970
D 9 104 SIREN SIREN LP 1970
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Dandelion Records and Strange Fruit
In 1969 Peel founded Dandelion Records (named after his pet hamster) so he could
release the debut album by Bridget St John, which he also produced. The label released
27 albums by 18 different artists before folding in 1972. Of its albums, There is Some
Fun Going Forward was a sampler intended to present its acts to a wide audience, but
Dandelion was never a great success, with only two releases charting nationally
: Medicine Head in the UK with "(And The) Pictures In The Sky" and Beau in Lebanon with
"1917 Revolution." Having had an affinity with the Manchester area from working in a
cotton mill in Rochdale in 1959 Peel signed Manchester bands Stackwaddy and Tractor to
Dandelion and was always supportive of both bands throughout his life.
As Peel stated:
It was never a success financially. In fact, we lost money, if I remember correctly, on
every single release bar one. I did quite like it but it was terribly indulgent. Not as
indulgent as it would have been had I not had a business partner, admittedly... I liked
having a label. It enabled you to put out stuff that you liked without, in those days,
having to worry about whether it was going to work commercially. I've never been a good
business man.
Peel appeared on one Dandelion release: the David Bedford album Nurses Song with
Elephants, recorded at the Marquee Studios, as part of a group playing twenty-seven
plastic pipe twirlers on the track "Some Bright Stars for Queen's College".
In the 1980s Peel set up the Strange Fruit Records with Clive Selwood to release
material recorded by the BBC for Peel Sessions.
[from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peel#Dandelion_Records_and_Strange_Fruit]
july 4, 2015