This incarnation of the label is no longer active, as EMI has relaunched Regal and Zonophone as separate imprints.

For example from the same session in 1905 the matrices of the famed Music Hall star Victoria Monks were either issued on full priced Gramophone Company recordings or the much cheaper Zonophone label-with no technical differences ( or indeed popularity of song ).

At least some Zonophone recordings were marked with early End User License Agreements ( EULAs ), as demonstrated by the sample label ( see image ).

The Joystrings appearance on the label hearkened back to the 1930s and 1940s when Regal Zonophone regularly released Salvation Army brass band recordings.

Called Join the Rejects, the Zonophone years ' 79 -' 81, it's a 3-disc collection of all their EMI recordings including all the Peel sessions and rare demos from the day.

Originally Regal Zonophone handled American releases from Okeh Records, Victor Records and Columbia Records, as well as offering home-grown recordings by artists such as Gracie Fields and George Formby.

However, it includes most early Pathé Records, Gramophone, Zonophone and Victor ( the predecessor of RCA Victor ) recordings, probably unavailable otherwise, as well and the famous " Vecchia Zimarra " private recording, with comment from Frances Alda, and other surprises.

Some sources also claim Berliner as a co-founder ; others say Berliner was never connected with the Victor company, though that may have been part of a ruse by Johnson to defeat the Zonophone lawsuits that had put Berliner Gramophone out of business ( in the U. S., but not in Canada, the UK, or Germany ) and threatened Johnson's phonograph business.

In 1971 the band produced their final album, Time Is for Regal Zonophone ( UK only ).

*" Dancing Flower "/" Bitter Green " ( Regal Zonophone RZ 3036 ) 1971 ( UK only )

Limited Edition in Yellow Vinyl ) ( EMI / Zonophone, 1980 ) UK No. 21

* " I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles " ( 7-inch ) ( EMI / Zonophone, 1980 ) UK No. 35

* " We Can Do Anything " ( 7-inch ) ( EMI / Zonophone, 1980 ) UK No. 65

* " We Are the Firm " ( 7-inch ) ( EMI / Zonophone, 1980 ) UK No. 54

Regal Zonophone was revived at the end of the 1990s as a reissue label curated by the UK band Saint Etienne.

Acts that appeared on the label include Beefheart, The Crusaders, Hugh Masekela, Sam Lay, Robbie Basho, Tom Rapp, Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation ( licensed from UK Liberty Records ), Modereko, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, Jimmy Smith, Dave Mason, The Pointer Sisters, T-Rex ( in its earlier incarnation as Tyrannosaurus Rex, licensed from the UK's Regal Zonophone Records ), Ike & Tina Turner, Love, Gábor Szabó, Mark-Almond, and National Lampoon ( on the Banana label imprint ).

* BTS 7-Unicorn-Tyrannosaurus Rex ( from UK Regal Zonophone )

* BTS 18-A Beard of Stars-Tyrannosaurus Rex ( from UK Regal Zonophone )

* " Out of Reach " ( 1982 ) EMI / Zonophone ( UK No. 68 )

* No Cause for Concern ( 1981 ) Zonophone ( UK No. 32 )

* Stand Strong Stand Proud ( 1982 ) Zonophone ( UK No. 47 )

In 1967 Regal Zonophone was revived again as an EMI label, featuring acts signed to music publisher David Platz's independent production group, Straight Ahead, several of which had seen chart action on Decca's Deram label.

Category: Regal Zonophone Records albums

Category: Regal Zonophone Records albums

Baker sat in for Kuti, during recording sessions in 1971 and these were released by Regal Zonophone as Live!

Zonophone, early on also rendered as Zon-O-Phone was a record label founded in 1899 in Camden, New Jersey by Frank Seaman.

The Zonophone name was not that of the company, but was applied to the records and machines sold by Seaman from 1899-1900 to 1903.

Regal Zonophone was also widely used as a catchall EMI label in foreign territories, and often in regions or nations where the main EMI Columbia and HMV logos and trademarks were disputed / held by competitors.

Chief among these were Procol Harum ( with their label the inspiration for their " Magdalene ( My Regal Zonophone )"), and The Move, joined by Marc Bolan's Tyrannosaurus Rex and Joe Cocker.

This new impetus was largely dissipated by 1970, when many of the Straight Ahead acts moved to the Fly and Cube labels, although new releases as well as reissues were issued on the Regal Zonophone label through the late 1970s.

In the early 1980s, Zonophone was revived by EMI to ride the post punk train with artists such as Angelic Upstarts, The Barracudas, The Cockney Rejects, and compilations such as the Oi!

In 1900, the United States branch of Gramophone lost a patent infringement suit, brought on by Columbia Records and Zonophone, and was no longer permitted to produce records in the USA.

The first recording of the song was made by Peter Dawson on the Zonophone label in 1912.

EMI revived the Regal Zonophone imprint in 1967 to handle the Essex Music / Straight Ahead producing account that had moved from Deram ( after one Procol Harum single and two singles by The Move ) and continued well into the early 1970s, with successful producers Denny Cordell and Tony Visconti both having production companies releasing records through the label.

* Regal Zonophone is one of the few record labels commemorated in song, namely " Magdalene ( My Regal Zonophone )" from the album Shine On Brightly by Regal Zonophone artists Procol Harum, and mentioned in " Repetition " by The Fall.

It is worth noting that in addition to the HMV titles appearing under his own name, he recorded Scottish songs popularized by Harry Lauder under the pseudonym Hector Grant, for the sister Zonophone record label.

Australia's most prolific artist, Australian country music singer Slim Dusty, signed with the Columbia Graphophone Co. for the Regal Zonophone label in 1946 and remained with EMI until his death in 2003-selling over 7 million records for the label in Australia by 2007.

Three of Deram's earliest hits, Procol Harum's " A Whiter Shade of Pale " and The Move's " Night of Fear " and " I Can Hear the Grass Grow ", were not by artists actually signed to Deram ; they were part of a deal with Straight Ahead Productions, who moved their acts to EMI and had them released on the reintroduced Regal Zonophone imprint.

Platz had entered the arena of record production in the early 1960s, and having had a string of hits by licensing records to major labels ( most Essex artists were released on EMI's Regal Zonophone ), decided to start his own independent record label in 1970.

In 2007, the Zonophone label was re-launched again with the release of cult, hard to find, or unreleased material from the whole spectrum of EMI's back catalogue either as physical CDs, digital downloads or both.

An early recording ( probably the first ) was made by the Black Diamond Band for Zonophone records in 1908.