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The Best Of Cameo (CD)

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Cameo Artist Snapshot:

This New York funk group, led by drummer/singer Larry Blackmon, began recording in the mid-1970s, but didn't reach its peak of popularity until the 1986 hit "Word Up," which defined Cameo's angular, synth-laced sound. Blackmon's outrageous stage persona and the group's simple hooks were key elements to the band's success.

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DISC 1 for The Best Of Cameo (CD) Album By Cameo (Artist)
1   Word Up
2   Single Life
3   Candy
4   Shake Your Pants
5   Rigor Mortis
6   Attack Me With Your Love
7   Talkin' Out The Side Of Your Neck
8   Sparkle
9   Back And Forth - (single version)
10   Flirt
11   She's Strange - (12" rap version)
12   I Just Want To Be
13   Skin I'm In
14   It's Over
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (5/28/93, p.65) - Rating: B+
Melody Maker (6/26/93, p.28) - "...They did shake a mean red-leather codpiece, bub, to which this collection testifies....One for funk connoisseurs..."

Title Note

Cameo: Larry Blackmon (vocals, bass, drums, percussion); Tomi Jenkins (vocals); Nathan Leftenant (background vocals, trumpet).

Additional personnel: Wayne Cooper, Stephen Moore, Kurt Jeter (vocals); Anthony Lockett, Charlie Singleton (guitar, vocals); Eric Durham (guitar); Arnett Leftenant (tenor saxophone, background vocals); Jeryl Bright (trombone, background vocals); Thomas "T.C." Campbell (piano, Fender Rhodes, Moog & Prophet synthesizers); Gregory Johnson (Fender Rhodes, Moog synthesizer, background vocals); Aaron Mills (bass, background vocals); Gary Dow, William Revis (bass).

Includes liner notes by Richard Torres.

Cameo were, in their earliest days, heavily influenced by the mighty P-Funk empire, but unlike George Clinton, Larry Blackmon's sharp ear for a pop hook overruled his fondness for extended, open-ended funk jams. In other words, Cameo were a singles band, something that could never be said of Parliament or Funkadelic. All of the group's best singles are collected on 1993's THE BEST OF CAMEO, from crossover smashes like the immortal "Word Up!" (always and forever the group's best four minutes), "Candy," and "She's Strange" (here in the seven-minute 12" version with a hip-hop breakdown excised from the hit) to earlier, horn-driven R&B hits like "Rigor Mortis." The focus on singles does mean that the group's facility for soulful Quiet Storm ballads is downplayed, but overall, THE BEST OF CAMEO is a solidly listenable introduction to this often-underrated band.

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