• Source: Zoo Entertainment (record label)

Zoo Entertainment was an American record label formed in 1990 by Lou Maglia. Zoo released three platinum records by the group Tool, as well as gold records by Green Jellÿ and Matthew Sweet. During the record company's early years, music industry executive George Daly was the label's original Vice President of A&R.




History


The label was formed in 1990 by Lou Maglia, former president of Island Records.
As early as 1993, Zoo was having financial difficulties. The record label also distributed Gamble & Huff's Philadelphia International Records for a short time. Being its distributor, the late Phyllis Hyman enjoyed a #1 R&B hit with "Don't Wanna Change The World," a song that was taken to US radio by radio promoter Jesus Garber, then a VP at Zoo.
In 1995, BMG reduced the staff at Zoo, foreshadowing problems for the label.
In August 1996, BMG sold Zoo to Kevin Czinger's newly formed Volcano Entertainment. It began as a partnership between the two labels, but by the end of 1997 the Zoo name had been phased out. All of Zoo's artists were absorbed by the new Volcano imprint. Volcano went through changes and was eventually sold to the Zomba Label Group in the spring of 1998. When Zomba was purchased by BMG in 2002, any remaining Zoo artists were returned to the BMG fold. BMG's assets were sold in 2008 to Sony Corporation of America and the back catalog is now handled by Sony Music Group through Volcano.




Artists


20 Fingers
7 Year Bitch
Ajax
Akinyele
Alcohol Funnycar
Bad Boys Blue
Big Star
Bleu
Blue Train
Calamity Jane
Cause & Effect
Clarence Clemons
Coming Of Age
Course of Empire
Cosmic Travelers
Crowbar
Disturbance
Dogstar
Drive
Flowerhead
Gary Hoey
Gillette
Great White
Green Jellÿ
Hoodoo Gurus
Kemelions
Killers
Killing Joke
Little Feat
Last Gentlemen
Lazet Michaels
Lusk
Love Jones
Matthew Sweet
Max-A-Million
Miss Alans
Morpheus
Nature
N.F.B.
Odds
Oliver Who?
Overlords
Philip Bailey
Phyllis Hyman
Pood, Bhud, 'N' Pflug
The Pooh Sticks
Procol Harum
Steve Pryor Band
Street Mentality
Red Square Black
Replicants
Rhythm Tribe
Rosco Martinez
Self
Shaver
Spelvins
Tool
Tung Twista
Varga
Voices
Webb Wilder




See also


List of record labels
Volcano Entertainment
Freeworld Entertainment




References

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• Zoo Entertainment (record label)
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• Tool (band)
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