Dandelion was an Elektra subsidiary established for US reissue of masters originally issued in the UK on the Dandelion label there. Dandelion in the UK was started and owned by deejay John Peel, who named the label after one of his hamsters. The label released records from 1969 to 1972. See For Miles records had a massive reissue campaign of Dandelion masters on CD in the 1990s.

Elektra chose to issue very few of the many records issued in the UK by Peel's Dandelion label. The US versions were not always exactly the same, sometimes deleting tracks from the UK counterparts. The US Dandelion label per se only lasted during 1970. In fact, four of the first six Dandelion-UK albums were issued here on the US counterpart, but they did not sell well, so Elektra re-thought their commitment and folded the separate label. In 1971, a couple of additional albums issued on the Elektra label as Elektra/Dandelion, but that was it.

John Peel, a legendary and influential figure in pop music in Britain, died in 2004.

The Dandelion label was multicolored with a dandelion logo at the top.

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