Slim Dusty's 1957 Regal Zonophone hit "A Pub with No Beer"[8][9] became the biggest-selling Australian recording ever released up to that time.

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.

During this period the label had both album and single success with artists such as The Move,[10] Procol Harum,[11] Joe Cocker,[12] and Tyrannosaurus Rex.

[13] During the mid-1970s, many of these production deals ended and, despite a few sporadic releases by Blue Mink,[14] Geordie,[15] Dave Edmunds,[16] and Grunt Futtock[17] (a one-off project featuring Roy Wood, Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton and Andy Bown), EMI stopped using the imprint as a major pop label.

Regal Zonophone was revived by EMI in 1985-86 for Frank Sidebottom, and again at the end of the 1990s as a reissue label curated by the UK band Saint Etienne.