The Dawn label was started in 1954 as a subsidiary label to Seeco and was owned by Sidney
Siegel. Dawn recorded jazz, pop, rhythm and blues and folk music. A&R for the label was handled by
Chuck Darwin, Paul Livert and Lee Magid. Although Dawn recorded many types of music the album
output was primarily jazz releases.
The jazz releases on the label were quite good and received many nice reviews in the jazz publications
of the day. A good retrospective of the jazz output on the label can be found on Dawn DLP-1123, titled
Critic's Choice.
For the rock and roll collector there is a fantastic compilation, DLP-1119, entitled Rock and Roll
Spectacular. This compilation contains 15 gems including a gorgeous ballad by the Royal Jokers
titled "Someday We'll Meet Again". It includes many of the non-jazz artists signed to the label in the
1950s. In addition to the Royal Jokers, the album features the Sophomores, the Treniers, Carolyn
Hayes, Tiny Webb and Lincoln Chase. Chase was perhaps most well-known for writing the song "Such
A Night," which was a hit by both the Drifters and Elvis Presley.
The Sophomores album DLP-1128 appeared in the Schwann catalogs in 1958 but as far as we know it
was never released with a Dawn label album in a Dawn cover. Copies exist of the Dawn cover with a
Seeco record, in any case the record was soon reissued as Seeco as CELP-451. A similar circumstance
exists with Dawn DLP-1127 by Ed McCurdy, copies exist of a Seeco record in a Dawn cover and the
record was reissued as Seeco CELP-439.
The Dawn label is black with silver print. "dawn" in a silver oval above the center hole. Promotional
labels are white with black printing, graphics was the same.
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DAWN ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] Contents
DLP-1101 - Jazzville Volume 1 - Quill-Sherman and Rouse-Watkins Quintets [3/56]
DLP-1102 - Modern Art Of Jazz by Zoot Sims - Zoot Sims, Bob Brookmeyer, G. Johnson and
J. Williams [1956] September in the Rain/Down at the Loft/Ghost of a Chance/Not So Deep/Them
There Eyes/Our Pad/Dark Clouds/One to Blow On
DLP-1103 - Let's Talk About Love - Bob Stewart [1956] Caravan/Skylark/Look Down
that Lonesome Road/If I'm Lucky/Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea/Come Rain or Come
Shine/When the Blues Come On/It's Mine After All/Avalon/Laura/Moonglow/Blue Prelude
DLP-1104 - Modern Art Of Jazz by Mat Mathews - Mat Mathews [1956]
DLP-1105 - I'll Take Romance - Donna Brooks Trio [1956]
DLP-1106 - Message From Garcia - Dick Garcia [1956] Have You Met Miss Jones/If I'm
Lucky/Kimona My House/I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire/the deacon/Stompin' at the Savoy/Like
Someone in Love/Potatoes/It Could Happen to You/Ev'ry Nite About This Time
DLP-1107 - Jazzville, Volume 2 - Frank Rehack and Alex Smith [1956] Very Syrian
Business/Never Do An Abadanian In/Zagreb This/Donnybrook/Limehouse Blues/Darn That
Dream/That's Earl, Brother/Nothing Could be Finer Than Minor
DLP-1108 - Les Jazz Modes - Les Jazz Modes [1957] When the Blues Come On/Blue
Modes/You Are Too Beautiful/So Far/Idle Evening/Garden Delights/Strange Tale/Two Songs
DLP-1109 - The Kid From Denver - Paul Quinichette [1956] Come Rain or Come
Shine/Pardon The Blues/Start Here/Pennies From Heaven/Happy Feeling/Honeysuckle Rose/Big
Deal/Kid From Denver
DLP-1110 - Cohn On The Saxophone - Al Cohn [2/57] When Day Is Done/Singing the
Blues/Blue Lou/Abstract of You/Things I Love/We Three/Idaho, Be Loose/Softly As In a Morning
Sunrise/Good Old Blues
DLP-1111 - The Gentle Art Of Love - Mat Mathews [1957] If You Were the Only Girl in
the World/I'll Be Arround/You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)/The Gentle Art of Love/Two Sleepy
People/My Heart and I Decided//It Could Happen to You/My Love Is a Fountain/When Your Lover Has
Gone/A Foggy Day ( In London Town)/Indian Summer/There Will Never Be Another You
DLP-1112 - Sing - Four Most [1957] Me and My Shadow/Similau/Let a Smile Be Your
Umbrella/Ooh! Baby, It Scares Me/Remember Me/Blue Prelude/Bernie's Tune/You're Blase/Bye Bye
Blackbird/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Ev'ry Time I Fall In Love/All's Well That Ends Well
DLP-1113 - Lucky Thompson With The Gerard Pochonet Quartet - Lucky Thompson
[1957] Tenderly/But Not For Me/You Go to My Head/Lullaby in Rhythm/Indian Summer/I Can't Give You
Anything But Love/Don't Blame Me/East of the Sun/Our Love is Here to Stay/I Cover the Waterfront/My
Funny Valentine
DLP-1114 - Jazzville, Volume 3 - Aaron Sachs Sextet and Charlie Smith Trio [1956]
Have You Met Miss Jones/Body and Soul/Blues For Sale/Airmail Special/Aaron's Blues/You're My
Thrill/Platter Pie/Why Shouldn't I/Ah! The Pain
DLP-1115 - Zoot Sims Goes To Jazzville - Zoot Sims [1957] You're My Girl/Purple
Cow/Ill Wind/Big Stampede/Too Close For Comfort/Jerry's Jaunt/How Now Blues/Bye Ya
DLP-1116 - Modern Art Of Jazz by Randy Weston - Randy Weston [1957] Loose
Wig/Run Joe/Theme For Teddy/In a Little Spanish Town/Don't Blame Me/J and K Blues/You
Needn't/How High the Moon
DLP-1117 - Mood In Scarlet - Les Jazz Modes [1957] Town and Country/When the
Blues Come On/Blue Modes/You Are Too Beautiful/So Far/Idle Evening/Garden Delights/Strange
Tale/Two Songs
DLP-1118 - Wild Kitten - Joe Puma [1957] Rose Room/Rigamarole/Polka Dots and
Moonbeams/Rosalie Ann/Wild Kitten/Soon/Sprotin' with Morton/But Not For Me
DLP-1119 - Rock And Roll Spectacular - Various Artists [7/57] Cool Cool Baby -
Sophomores/Baby Say You Love Me - Carolyn Hayes/She Walked Me By - Lincoln Chase/Spider's
Webb - Tiny Webb/I Want You to Be My Baby - Royal Jokers/I Get a Thrill - Sophomores/Really -
Carolyn Hayes/Why Do You Get So High - Treniers//Someday We'll Meet Again - Royal Jokers/Bitter
Honey - India Adams/I Just Can't Keep the Tears From Tumblin' Down - Sophomores/Sweet Lovin'
Daddy - Carolyn Hayes/Slow Freight - Tiny Webb/Our Love is Satisfactory - Lincoln Chase/Everybody
Loves Me - Sophomores
DLP-1120 - Jimmy Raney Visits Paris - Jimmy Raney [1958] Tres
Choouette/Imagination/Dinah/Love For Sale/Have You Met Miss Jones?/What's New?/Fascinating
Rhythm/Too Marvelous For Words/Cherokee/Everything Happens to Me/Night and Day/Someone to
Watch Over Me
DLP-1121 - I Love Dixieland - New Orleanians [1958] Basin St. Blues/Sheik of
Araby/Burkhardt's Blues/Up the Lazy River/Muskrat Ramble/At the Jazz Band Ball/Fidgety
Feet/Panama/Jada /Washington and Lee Swing/That's A-Plenty/When the Saints Go Marching In/Tin
Roof Blues
DLP-1122 - Jazzville, Volume 4 - Paul Quinichette and Gene Roland [1957]
Suitcase/Minor Scene/Colonel Hodge/Creeper/Everything I'v Got Belongs To You/Things I
Love/Irma/Suddenly It's Spring/Why Was I Born
DLP-1123 - Critic's Choice - Various Artists [1957] September in the Rain - Zoot Sims
and Bob Brookmeyer/Body and Soul - Oscar Pettiford and Charlie Smith/Potatoes - Dick Garcia and
Tony Scott/When the Blues Come On - Les Jazz Modes/I Only Have Eyes For You - Mat
Mathews//Happy Feeling - Paul Quinichette/How High the Moon - Randy Weston/Polka Dots and
Moonbeams - Joe Puma/Idaho - Al Cohn and Frank Rehak/Loverman - Gene Quill
DLP-1124 - Jazz For Hi-Fi Lovers - Various Artists [1958] Start Here/If I'm Lucky/Loose
Wig/Not So Sleepy/Catch Her/Darn That Dream/Bye Ya/Suitcase
DLP-1125 - New Voices - Rita Reys, Sylvia Pierce,Peggy Serra [1958] You Stepped
Out of a Dream/No Moon At All/My Future Just Passed/It's Mine After All/You Leave Me
Breathless/Enchanted/April/When the Blues Come On/Ain't Misbehavin'I Never Knew/Lover Come Back
To Me/All of You/I'd Know You Anywhere
DLP-1126 - Tenors Anyone? - Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Paul Quinchette & Wardell Gray
[1958] I Should Care/These Foolish Things/Along About This Time Last Year/Talk of the Town/Pennies
From Heaven/Poop Deck/Ante Room/In a Pinch/Skull Buster/blues For the Month of May
DLP-1127 - The Folk Singer - Ed McCurdy [1/58] Although this record exists as a Dawn
cover with a Seeco record, it may or may not exist as a Dawn record in a Dawn cover. Squid Jiggin'
Ground/Pretty Little Black Eyed Susy/Lukey's Boat/Ride an Old Paint/Lavender Cowboy/Riders in the
Sky//Ballad of Frank Slide/Cotton-Eyed Joe/It Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song/Western
Wind/Black is the Color/Careless Love
DLP-1128 mono, DSP-2001 stereo - The Sophomores - Sophomores [1/58
Unreleased?] Although this record exists as a Seeco record in a Dawn cover, it is not believed to exist as
a Dawn record in a Dawn cover. Record was reissued as Seeco CELP-451. Linda/If I Should Lose Your
Love/Cool Cool Baby/Is There a Someone For Me/Everybody Loves Me//Every Nite About This
Time/Ocean Blue/I Get a Thrill/I Just Can't Keep the Tears From Tumbling Down/I Left My Sugar
Standing in the Rain
BRONJO LABEL ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY:
Bronjo was another subsidiary of Seeco Records of New York. It existed from about 1958 to after 1960.
The Bronjo label is yellow with black printing. "bronjo" in black above the center hole.
BR-101
BR-102
BR-103
BR-104 - Songs They Censored In The Hills - Sid "Hardrock" Gunter [1960] Reissue of
Seeco CE-422. Blood Shot Eyes/I'll Go Chasin' Women/She Came Runnin' Down the Mountain/Rye
Whiskey, Rye Whiskey/It May Be Silly (But Ain't It Fun"/The Freckle Song/Oh! What a Beauty!//A Little
Bit Ain't Gonna Help Us Much/Mountain Dew/With Only Two Hairs on His Chest/Take Away Your Rosy
Lips/The Right Key But the Wrong Keyhole/Conversation With a Mule/Out Behind the Barn
BR-105 - Skitch Henderson of the Tonight Show - Skitch Henderson [196?]
BR-106
BR-107
BR-108 - Ole! - Lola Flores [196?] Reissue of Seeco SCLP 9095. Angelitos Negros/Mora
Gitana/Un Mundo Raro/Espinita/Algo De Espana/Esto Es Sevilla//Gitana Del Camino/Tu Rica Boca/Mi
Ultimo Fracaso/La Faraona/Mil Besos/Magdalena
BR-109
BR-110 - A Night in Puerto Rico - Various Artists [196?] Reissue of Seeco SCLP 9080.
Tus Promesas De Amor/Borinquen/Lechero/Una y Mil Veces/Conoci A Tu Papa/Que Coco/Cuando Te
Decidas/Mienteme Mas/Llanto En El Cielo/Preocupacion/Bombon De Elena/El Mangoneo
BR-111 - Oriza - Silvestre Méndes [196?] Reissue of Seeco SCLP 9314.
BR-112
BR-113
BR-114 - La Rítmica - Sonora Matancera [196?] Reissue of a Tropical LP
(number unknown), since the Bronjo label album has a Tropical label cover. La Sopa En Botella/Ipso
Calypso/Ay Que Rico Amor/Cruel Indiferencia/Y No Me Enganes Mas/Guaguanco #3//Conoci A Tu
Papa/Hablame Claro/Ayer Y Hoy/El Novio Celoso/Consuelame/Queridos Padres
BR-115 - Piano Witchcraft - Cy Coleman, Jose Meles & Skitch Henderson [196?]
BR-116
BR-117
BR-118 - South of the Border - Trío Los Panchos [196?] Reissue of Seeco SCLP
9078. La Enramada/Sin Venttura/Cerezo Rosa/Una Aventura Mas/Cuesta Abajo/Pena
Penita/Sombras/Mis Tinieblas/Alma Llanera/Historia de Amor/Perdon/Abandonada
BR-119
BR-120 - Bravo! - Los Chavales de España [196?] Reissue of Seeco SCLP 9079.
En Torremolinos/Morucha/Te Quiero/Zambra Gitana/Ole/Farruca Lerele/Luna de Espana/A
Escondiadas/Morena/Carino/Triana Morena/Traicion/Mi Vida Es El Amor
BR-121 - Irving Berlin Goes Latin - Joe Cain & His Orchestra [196?] Reissue of Seeco
CELP-433. A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody/Easter Parade/Medley: They Say It's Wonderful-Be Careful It's
My Heart-How Deep Is The Ocean/Blue Skies/Alexander's Ragtime Band/Cheek To Cheek/Heat
Wave/Always/Marie/Medley: Say It Isn't So-Let's Face The Music And Dance/I've Got My Love To Keep
Me Warm
BR-122
BR-123
BR-124
BR-125
BR-126
BR-127
BR-128
BR-129
BR-130 - Latin Dance Party, Vol. 4 - Perez Prado & His Orchestra [196?] Reissue of
Seeco SCLP 9083. Mambo No. 5/Las Siete y Media/Habana/Mi Cazuelita/Chambeleque/Saca La
Mano/Electricidad/Siempre Contigo/Kandela/Hembra Mala/Tu No Tienes Suerte/Actopan
BR-131
BR-132
BR-133 - Haifa in Hi-Fi - Shoshana Damari [196?] Reissue of Seeco CELP 415.
Adarim/Rahel Rahel/E-Ohim- Esh'ala/Kirya Yefeifya/Hinakh Yaffa Faayati/Emet El Shimkha/Raeh
Veroah/Shnei Shoshanim/Ani Tsameh/Seyi Yona/Horoah-Haktana-Min-Haagai/Hatender Nosseah
BR-134
BR-135
BR-136
BR-137 - 12 Most Popular Merenges - Various Artists [196?]
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