Cameo Records was an American
record label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the prod ...
that flourished in the 1920s. It was owned by the Cameo Record Corporation in New York City.
Cameo released a disc by
Lucille Hegamin every two months from 1921 to 1926. Cameo records are also noted for dance music. The catalogue also included the Original Memphis Five and the Varsity Eight.
Musicians such as
Red Nichols,
Miff Mole,
Adrian Rollini, and
Frank Signorelli made trips to the Cameo studios.
In 1926, Cameo started recording using a microphone-electrical process. An interesting blues number is 583, "Crazy Blues", by
Salt & PepperListen to the podcast at 26:46, where the disc is mentioned as an "early electric".
The Cameo Record Corporation started
Lincoln Records (1924) and
Romeo Records (1926). In 1928 it merged with
Pathé Records, and then the
American Record Corporation. The resulting company stopped using the Cameo name in the 1930s.
This label is not affiliated with
Cameo-Parkway Records which was active in the 1950s and 1960s.
See also
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List of record labels
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References
External links
Cameo Recordson the Internet Archive'
Great 78 Project
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American record labels
Record labels established in 1921
Record labels disestablished in 1930
Jazz record labels