[78-L] Romeo, Cameo, Wherefore Art Thou Cameo?

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Mar 13 14:36:31 PDT 2013


Yeah, definitely electrical, despite being reproduced on an acoustical, picked 
up by a microphone, anything else to defeat the purpose..! Hey, what's with the 
fading?

Interesting to hear the same group playing it on Brunswick in a totally 
different arrangement. Hotsy totsy, hey sport?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-j4CkGnLl0

dl

On 3/13/2013 5:28 PM, Harold Aherne wrote:
> The Cameos I've heard from 1926 *seem* to be electric. Seem to be. But I don't know
> for certain. Here are some samples for list members to judge for themselves:
>
> Horses by The Seven Little Polar Bears [Reser group], voc. Tom Stacks, ca. 14 Apr. 1926:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EocJ1myn8lc
>
> Tonight You Belong to Me by William Robyn, ca. Oct.-Nov. 1926:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAqe5KGfiB8
>
> -HA
>
> --- On Wed, 3/13/13, Philip Carli<Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu>  wrote:
>
> From: Philip Carli<Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Romeo, Cameo, Wherefore Art Thou Cameo?
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 3:58 PM
>
> I take it, then, that the earliest Romeo and Cameo electrics were recorded by Pathé, or did Cameo briefly have its own system?  If not, it seems Cameo started issuing electric recordings even later than Edison.  Just curious. PC
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