Editing Cameo Records

{{Short description|American record label}}
{{About|the Cameo Records label active in the 1920s|the later Cameo Records label|Cameo-Parkway Records}}
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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Cameo Records
| image       = CameoHegaminLabel.jpg
| image_size  = 180px
| image_alt   = Cameo label
| caption     = <!-- a caption for the image -->
| parent      = Cameo Record Corporation
| founded     = {{start date|1921}}
| founder     = <!-- name of founders, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| fate        = <!-- explain the reason of the closing-->
| defunct     = 1930
| status      = Inactive
| distributor = <!-- distributors, separate with commas or <br /> -->
| genre       = [[Jazz]], [[blues]]
| country     = U.S.
| location    = [[New York City]], U.S.
| url         = <!-- such as "{{URL|www.atlanticrecords.com}}" -->
}}
'''Cameo Records''' was an American [[record label]] that flourished in the 1920s. It was owned by the Cameo Record Corporation in [[New York City]].<ref name="New Grove">{{cite book|last=Rye|first=Howard|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1|year=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1561592846|edition=2nd|editor=Barry Kernfeld|page=376}}</ref>

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.<ref name="New Grove" /> Musicians such as [[Red Nichols]], [[Miff Mole]], [[Adrian Rollini]], and [[Frank Signorelli]] made trips to the Cameo studios.<ref name="discog">{{cite web|url= http://www.mainspringpress.com/cameo.html|title= The Cameo Discography|date= November 24, 2009|work= The Mainspring Online Discography Project|publisher= Mainspring Press|accessdate= February 3, 2010|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100313151020/http://www.mainspringpress.com/cameo.html#|archive-date= 2010-03-13|url-status= dead}}</ref> In 1926, Cameo started recording using a microphone-electrical process. An interesting blues number is 583, "Crazy Blues", by [[Jack Pepper|Salt & Pepper]].<ref>[http://www.dawnofsound.com/?p=15 Dawn of Sound, the podcast, where the disc is mentioned as an "early electric"]</ref>

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.<ref name="New Grove" />

This label is not affiliated with [[Cameo-Parkway Records]] which was active in the 1950s and 1960s.

== See also ==
* [[List of record labels]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?and%5B%5D=publisher:cameo Cameo Records] on the Internet Archive's [http://great78.archive.org/ Great 78 Project]

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[[Category:Record labels established in 1921]]
[[Category:Record labels disestablished in 1930]]
[[Category:American jazz record labels]]