Pye Records  

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Pye Records was a British record label. Its best known artists were Lonnie Donegan (1956–69), Petula Clark (1957–71), The Searchers (1963–67), The Kinks (1964–71), Sandie Shaw (1964–1971) and Brotherhood of Man (1975–79). The label changed its name in 1980, but was briefly reactivated in 2006.

Artists on Pye Records

(including the US labels that issued records by the artists during the time they were on Pye)

• The Bachelors
• Sounds Orchestral (issued in US on Parkway)
• Long John Baldry (issued in US on Warner Bros.)
• Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen (issued in US on Kapp)
• Trader Horne
• Acker Bilk
• Chris Barber's Jazzband (issued in US on Laurie)
• David Bowie (1965–1966; issued in US on Warner Bros.)
• The Brook Brothers (1961–64)
• Brotherhood of Man (1975–1979)
• Max Bygraves made a successful series of singalong albums for Pye
• Petula Clark (1957–1971: in addition to dozens of singles, her output for Pye included seventeen albums. Issued in US on Laurie and then on Warner Bros.)
• Clem Curtis
• Joe Dolan
• Lonnie Donegan (1956–1969; issued in US on Mercury, Atlantic, then Dot)
• Donovan (1965–1971; issued in US on Hickory and then Epic)
• Carl Douglas (issued in the US on 20th Century Fox)
• The Enid
• Episode Six (issued in US on Elektra for 1 single only)
• The Flying Machine (1969; issued in US on Congress and then Janus)
• Emile Ford and the Checkmates
• The Foundations (issued in the US on Uni)
• Brian Joseph Friel (issued in the US on ATV Records)
• Benny Hill (1961–1965)
• The Honeycombs (1964–1966; issued in the US on Interphon and then Warner Bros.)
• Idlewild (2006)
• The Ivy League (1965–1966; issued in the US on Cameo)
• Tony Jackson and the Vibrations (1964–1966; issued in the US on Kapp, and then Red Bird)
• Jimmy James & The Vagabonds
• The Kinks (1964–1971; issued in the US on Cameo and then Reprise)
• Vera Lynn (1979–1981)
• Man
• Gerald Masters (1977–1980)
• Mungo Jerry (1970–1974; issued in the US on Janus and then Bell)
• Olivia Newton-John (Olivia, Festival, Australia, 1972)
• Maxine Nightingale
• The Migil 5 (1964–1965)
• Des O'Connor
• Lennie Peters (1966)
• The Real Thing (1976–1979)
• Joan Regan (1960–1961)
• The Remo Four
• Donn Reynolds (1958-1959)
• Ritchie Valens (1958; issued in the US on Del-Fi Records.
• The Searchers (1963–1967; issued in the US on Mercury, Liberty and then Kapp)
• Sandie Shaw (1964–1972; issued in the US on Reprise)
• Labi Siffre (1970–1973, Pye International)
• Hurricane Smith (1976–1977)
• The Sorrows (1964–1966; issued in the US on Warner Bros.)
• Status Quo (1968–1971; issued in the US on Cadet Concept and then Janus)
• Graduate (1979)
• Tommy Steele
• Frankie Vaughan (1973–1978)
• Velvett Fogg (1969)
• Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band (issued in the US on Kapp)
• Mark Wynter (1962–1968)
• Tyrone Ashley (1976)

See also

• List of record labels
• Nixa Records