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

| name = Cameo Records

| image = CameoHegaminLabel.jpg

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| image_alt = Cameo label

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| parent = Cameo Record Corporation

| founded = {{start date|1921}}

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| defunct = 1930

| status = Inactive

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| genre = Jazz, blues

| country = U.S.

| location = New York City, U.S.

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Cameo Records was an American record label that flourished in the 1920s. It was owned by the Cameo Record Corporation in New York City.{{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}}

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.{{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}} In 1926, Cameo started recording using a microphone-electrical process. An interesting blues number is 583, "Crazy Blues", by Salt & Pepper.[http://www.dawnofsound.com/?p=15 Dawn of Sound, the podcast, 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.