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Cameo was a USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 based record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
, first flourishing in the 1920s, not connected with a later record label of the same name
Cameo-Parkway Records

Cameo and its sister label Parkway were major Philadelphia-based record labels from 1956 through 1967....
 which was active in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Cameo Record Company was based in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. Cameo records were introduced in February 1922, selling for 50 cents each, and soon Cameo became one of the more popular budget labels.

Cameo Records are noted for a wealth of jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 influenced 1920s dance music.






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Cameo was a USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 based record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
, first flourishing in the 1920s, not connected with a later record label of the same name
Cameo-Parkway Records

Cameo and its sister label Parkway were major Philadelphia-based record labels from 1956 through 1967....
 which was active in the 1950s and 1960s.

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The Cameo Record Company was based in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. Cameo records were introduced in February 1922, selling for 50 cents each, and soon Cameo became one of the more popular budget labels.

Cameo Records are noted for a wealth of jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 influenced 1920s dance music. While there is little of outstanding importance on Cameo, a high percentage of Cameo Records have fairly good hot music. New York based musicians such as Red Nichols
Red Nichols

Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols was an United States jazz cornettist, composer, and jazz bandleader....
, Miff Mole
Miff Mole

Irving Milfred Mole, better known as Miff Mole was a jazz trombonist and band leader. He is generally considered as one of the greatest jazz trombonists and credited with creating "the first distinctive and influential solo jazz trombone style." His major recordings included "Slippin' Around", "Red Hot Mama" in 1924 with Sophie Tucker...
, Adrian Rollini
Adrian Rollini

Adrian Francis Rollini was a instrumentalist best known for his jazz music. He played the bass saxophone, piano, xylophone, and many other instruments....
, and Frank Signorelli
Frank Signorelli

Frank Signorelli was an United States jazz pianist of the 1920s. He was a founder member of the Original Memphis Five in 1917, then joined the Original Dixieland Jazz Band briefly in 1921....
 made many trips to the Cameo studios. In 1924, Cameo appears to have started recording using a microphone-electrical process. An early example is 583, "Crazy Blues", by "Salt & Pepper"
Jack Pepper

Jack Pepper was an American vaudeville dancer, singer, commedian, musician, and later in life a Dallas, Texas nightclub manager.Pepper began entertaining on Vaudeville in his youth with his sisters Helen and Winnie Mae....
.

Cameo also featured a series of recordings by noted early blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 singer Lucille Hegamin
Lucille Hegamin

Lucille Nelson Hegamin was a United States singer and entertainer, and a pioneer African American blues recording artist.Hegamin was born as Lucille Nelson in Macon, Georgia....
.

Cameo also owned the Lincoln Records
Lincoln Records

Lincoln Records was a record label in the United States in the 1920s.The bulk of material on Lincoln were dance music tunes recorded by bands of no particular note....
 and Romeo Records
Romeo Records

Romeo Records was a record label based in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. It was a subsidiary of Cameo Records, manufactured to be sold exclusively at the S....
 labels, as well as a subsidiary for making records for children, Cameo-Kid
Cameo-Kid

Cameo-Kid was a United States based record label in the 1920s.Cameo-Kid was a subsidiary of Cameo Records, marketing recordings intended for children....
. Cameo was purchased by Pathé Records
Pathé Records

Path? Records was a France based international record label active from the 1890s through the 1930s.Path? was founded by brothers Charles Path? & ?mile Path?, who were owners of a successful bistro in Paris....
 in 1928; the label continued in use until 1930. Pathé was in turn acquired by the American Record Corporation
American Record Corporation

The American Record Corporation, often known as ARC Records or simply ARC, was a United States based record company. It resulted from the merger in July of 1929 in music of Regal Records , Cameo Records, Banner Records, the US branch of Path? Records and the Scranton Button Company, the parent company of Emerson Records....
.

See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...