Dawn Records was a subsidiary of Pye Records. Active from 1969 to 1975, it was established as Pye's 'underground and progressive'

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rivalling the EMI and Phonogram equivalents,

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and Vertigo. The most successful act on the label was

Mungo Jerry Mungo Jerry (formerly known as Mungo Jerry Blues Band) are a British rock band formed by Ray Dorset in Ashford, Middlesex, in 1970. Experiencing their greatest success in the early 1970s, with a changing line-up always fronted by Dorset, the ...

, whose first two singles reached No. 1 on the UK singles chart. The label also released the 1970 and 1971 Donovan albums, '' Open Road'' and the double-album'' HMS Donovan''. It also released recordings by

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, Paul Brett's Sage, Titus Groan, Trifle, Mike Cooper,

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, John Kongos (before he found greater success on the Fly label), Comus, Atlantic Bridge,

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, Atomic Rooster and the Mungo Jerry offshoot, the King Earl Boogie Band. In October 1970, the UK music magazine ''

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'' reported that Dawn label acts Demon Fuzz, Titus Groan, Heron and Comus were due to take part in a series of UK

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s in November 1970. At all venues the price of admission was one

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. Two other acts were Brotherhood of Man in their Eurovision-winning line-up, who released their first

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, '' Good Things Happening'', in 1974; and Prelude, whose

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version of the

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song " After the Gold Rush" (No. 21, 1974) was the label's only other UK hit single.

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