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Dawn Records
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Dawn Records was a subsidiary of Pye Records. Active 1970-75, it was set up largely as Pye's 'underground and progressive' label, a rival of the EMI and Phonogram equivalents, Harvest and Vertigo.
The most successful act on the label was Mungo Jerry, whose first two singles reached No. 1 and who thereafter had four other Top 20 hits during this period. It also released records by Paul Brett's Sage, Titus Groan, Mike Cooper, Heron, John Kongos (before he found greater success on the Fly label), Comus, Atlantic Bridge, the Mungo Jerry offshoot King Earl Boogie Band, Pluto and Prelude, whose accapella version of the Neil Young song After The Gold Rush (No. 21, 1974) was the label's only other UK hit single.