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- Zodiac Records (New Zealand)Zodiac Records (New Zealand)Zodiac Records was a New Zealand based label founded in 1957 . It was owned by Stebbing Recording and Sound, LTD, headquartered in Auckland; the company also released both 78s and 45s. Artists that released their records on that label included Howard Morrison, Herma Keil The Keil Isles, Ray...
, from New Zealand, owned by Stebbing Recording and Sound, LTD, headquartered in AucklandAucklandThe Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world... - In the 1950s, a United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
based company headquartered in New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
released both 78 and 45 rpmRevolutions per minuteRevolutions per minute is a measure of the frequency of a rotation. It annotates the number of full rotations completed in one minute around a fixed axis...
disc recordsGramophone recordA gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
. - In the late 1960s, a Chicago-based Zodiac Records specialized in Soul music and was best known for their key artist Ruby AndrewsRuby AndrewsRuby Andrews is a Chicago-based American soul singer.Her best known songs include "Casonova " , "You Made A Believer " , and "Everybody Saw You" .-Biography:...
and her trademark hit "Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over)". The label went defunct in the early 1970s. - In 1987, NY-based Zodiac Records began releasing vinyl-only albums featuring legendary punk pioneers Johnny Thunders & Wayne Kramer's Gang War, reviving in 2006 to release vinyl-only EPs and 45s by The Von Ghouls and the Coffin Daggers.
- During the 1990s, Zodiac Records was a NetherlandsNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
based label. - Existing in the early 2000s, another Zodiac Records is based in ArognoArognoArogno is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino, located south of Lake Lugano in the southernmost tip of Switzerland.-History:...
, SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....