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Please note: This Oz Records label has no relationship with another Australian label bearing the same name, the -founded, EMI affiliated . Oz Records was a sub-label of Records that specialised in promoting Australian and New Zealand artists for an international market. It was established in 1974, two years after the Mushroom label had been founded by and . That same year the entrepreneurs signed a deal with US-based to distribute Mushroom artists in the U.S. and Canada in association with Oz Records. This deal was reportedly the result of a friendship between Gudinski and A&M co-founder . The first act to take advantage of this deal was , whose album "" was released America, accompanied by a tour of the country. There was also enough funding for the band to record its follow-up album "" (ctd. onamrecords.com). The next act to come to A&M from Mushroom was . Among the other acts to have international releases distributed through A&M and Oz Records were: , , , , , and . The soundtrack to the 1982 Australian film musical, "" was also released in the U.S. via A&M/Oz Records. Interestingly Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons joined Mushroom Records in 1979, having previously been signed to Ross Wilson's Oz Records (1976-1978). However, it wasn't until 1983 that the band released its first album in the US through Atlantic/Oz Records, this being "."