Sunflower Records

Sunflower Records

Sunflower Records was a Los Angeles, California-based record label founded by songwriter Mack David and music industry veteran Danny Kessler that operated from 1970 to 1972. The label was distributed by MGM Records. Sunflower issued less than 30 singles, and the album output was limited to fewer than a dozen items.

Albums

Early in its operation, Sunflower obtained the rights to some 1966 vintage concert recordings by the Grateful Dead. They issued these as albums SUN-5001 and SNF-5004, both of which made the record charts. They followed the first Grateful Dead LP with another live set, from popular performer Danny Cox, who reminded listeners of the folk era. Another artist was Randy Edelman, who would later find success in writing songs picked up by more famous artists such as Barry Manilow. Edelman's debut album, Sunflower SNF-5005, was released in 1971. [cite web
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Singles

Sunflower Records' first single, "Song Of A Thousand Voices" (#101), was by Fearless Fradkin a/k/a/ Les Fradkin and the third was "Patty Cake" by the Yummies, both of which surfaced as regional hits in various sections of the USA in fall 1970.. By the time they reached #105, they came up with a fictitious artist called Daddy Dewdrop, who coupled "Chick-A-Boom" with the children's tune "John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith,". Surprisingly, the song "Chick-A-Boom," a wry sexual fantasy put to music, jumped into the national top-10, the biggest hit the label ever had. The Daddy Dewdrop album, which followed the successful single, was a light-hearted, if not lightweight, effort that sealed the fate of Daddy Dewdrop as a one-hit wonder, never to be heard from again. The follow-up single, "The March of the White Corpuscles"/"Fox Huntin'" (Sunflower 111), sank without a trace.

Other Artists

Other notable artists on the label included Jasper Wrath, Tony Scotti, Frankie Laine and R.B. Greaves. The last single to make the charts was Sunflower 118, "Love Me, Love Me, Love Me" by pianist Frank Mills, which reached the top-50 in early 1972. Mills was to make a top-3 record, "Music Box Dancer," about seven years later on Polydor Records.

ee also

* List of record labels

References


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