Bizarre Records was a record label formed for artists discovered by Frank Zappa and his business partner/manager Herb Cohen.
Bizarre was originally formed as a production company. Zappa's label, Verve Records, had missed the deadline to renew their option on Zappa's recording contract after his second album with The Mothers of Invention, Absolutely Free in 1967. This gave Zappa and Cohen the upper hand in negotiating their own production deal wit...
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