Cameo Records was an American

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that flourished in the 1920s. It was owned by the Cameo Record Corporation in

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. Cameo released a disc by

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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

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, Miff Mole,

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, and

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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 & Pepper.Dawn of Sound, the podcast, where the disc is mentioned as an "early electric"
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, and then the

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. 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.

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Cameo Records
on the Internet Archive'
Great 78 Project
{{Authority control Record labels established in 1921 Record labels disestablished in 1930 American jazz record labels

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