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Cameo-Parkway Records

Index Cameo-Parkway Records

Cameo-Parkway Records was the parent company of Cameo Records and Parkway Records, which were major American Philadelphia-based record labels from 1956 (for Cameo) and 1958 (for Parkway) to 1967. [1]

95 relations: ? and the Mysterians, ABKCO Records, Allen Klein, Alvin and the Chipmunks, American Bandstand, Amy Records, Artists and repertoire, Bell Records, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Bernie Lowe, Big band, Bob Seger, Bobby Rydell, Box set, British Invasion, Buddah Records, Cameo Records, Charlie Gracie, Cheltenham Avenue, Cheltenham High School, Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Chris Bartley (singer), Chubby Checker, Clark Terry, Clint Eastwood, Collectors' Choice Music, Columbia Graphophone Company, Cozy Cole, Curtis Mayfield, Dance music, Dave Appell, Dee Dee Sharp, Dick Clark, Don't Hang Up (song), Doo-wop, Elvis Presley, Fabian Forte, Fairmount Park, Fairmount, Philadelphia, Fats Domino, Five Stairsteps, Forget Him (Bobby Rydell song), Frankie Avalon, Garage rock, Grand Funk Railroad, Hank Ballard, Jo Ann Campbell, John Zacherle, Kal Mann, Kissin' Time (song), ..., Len Barry, Let's Twist Again, List of record labels, London Records, Los Angeles, Mala Records, Maynard Ferguson, Merv Griffin, MGM Records, Neil Bogart, New Colony Six, Novelty song, Ohio Express, Phil Upchurch, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pop rock, Pye International Records, Pye Records, Record label, Rhythm and blues, Ricky Nelson, Robert F. Kennedy, Rockabilly, So Much in Love, Soul music, Terry Knight and the Pack, The Applejacks (US band), The Cha-Cha-Cha, The Coasters, The Dovells, The Kinks, The Orlons, The Rank Organisation, The Rays, The Spokesmen, The Twist (song), The Tymes, The Yellow Payges, Van McCoy, Volare (song), We Got Love (Bobby Rydell song), Wild One (Bobby Rydell song), Wyncote, Pennsylvania, (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear. Expand index (45 more) »

? and the Mysterians

? and the Mysterians (also rendered Question Mark and the Mysterians) are an American garage rock band from Bay City and Saginaw in Michigan, who were initially active between 1962 and 1969.

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ABKCO Records

ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. (ABKCO acronym of Allen & Betty Klein and COmpany) is a major American independent record label, music publisher, and film and video production company.

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Allen Klein

Allen Klein (December 18, 1931 July 4, 2009) was an American businessman, music publisher, writers' representative, filmmaker and record label executive, most noted for his tough persona and aggressive negotiation tactics, many of which established higher industry standards for compensating recording artists.

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Alvin and the Chipmunks

Alvin and the Chipmunks, originally David Seville and the Chipmunks or simply The Chipmunks, is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. for a novelty record in 1958.

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American Bandstand

American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer.

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Amy Records

DJ copy of Kinetic Energy 1969 Amy 45 Amy Records was a record label formed in 1960 as a subsidiary of Bell Records.

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Artists and repertoire

Artists and repertoire (A&R) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.

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Bell Records

Bell Records was an American record label founded in 1952 in New York City by Arthur Shimkin, the owner of the children's record label Golden Records, and initially a unit of Pocket Books, after the rights to the name were acquired from Benny Bell who used the Bell name to issue risque novelty records.

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Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Benjamin Franklin Parkway is a scenic boulevard that runs through the cultural heart of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Bernie Lowe

Bernie Lowe (November 22, 1917 – September 1, 1993) was an American songwriter / record producer / arranger / pianist and bandleader.

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Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Bob Seger

Robert Clark Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist.

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Bobby Rydell

Bobby Rydell (born Robert Louis Ridarelli; April 26, 1942) is an American professional singer, mainly of rock and roll music.

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Box set

A box set or boxed set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) packaged in a box, for sale as a single unit.

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British Invasion

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture, became popular in the United States and significant to rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Buddah Records

Buddah Records (later known as Buddha Records) was an American record label founded in 1967 in New York City.

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Cameo Records

Cameo Records was an American record label that flourished in the 1920s.

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Charlie Gracie

Charles Anthony Graci (born May 14, 1936, Philadelphia), known professionally as Charlie Gracie, is an American rock pioneer and rhythm and blues singer and guitarist.

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Cheltenham Avenue

Cheltenham Avenue is a major east-west road in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

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Cheltenham High School

Cheltenham High School is a public high school in the Wyncote neighborhood of Cheltenham Township, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, located half a mile from the border of the City of Philadelphia and 6 miles from Center City.

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Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Cheltenham Township is a home rule township bordering North Philadelphia in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Chris Bartley (singer)

Chris Bartley (April 17, 1947, Allmusic.com – October 26, 2009) was an American R&B singer.

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Chubby Checker

Chubby Checker (birth name Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American rock n roll singer and dancer.

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Clark Terry

Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, composer, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.

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Clint Eastwood

Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure.

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Collectors' Choice Music

Collectors' Choice Music is a company primarily in two businesses.

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Columbia Graphophone Company

The Columbia Graphophone Company was one of the earliest gramophone companies in the United Kingdom.

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Cozy Cole

William Randolph "Cozy" Cole (October 17, 1909 – January 9, 1981) was an American jazz drummer who had hits with the songs "Topsy I" and "Topsy II".

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Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Dave Appell

David Appell (March 24, 1922 – November 18, 2014) was an American musician, musical arranger and record producer born in Philadelphia.

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Dee Dee Sharp

Dee Dee Sharp (born Dione LaRue, September 9, 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American R&B singer, who began her career recording as a backing vocalist in 1961.

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Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987.

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Don't Hang Up (song)

"Don't Hang Up" is a 1962 hit single produced by Cameo-Parkway Records and performed by the American R&B music group The Orlons.

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Doo-wop

Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music that was developed in African-American communities in the East Coast of the United States in the 1940s, achieving mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Fabian Forte

Fabiano Anthony Forte (born February 6, 1943), professionally known as Fabian, is an American singer and actor.

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Fairmount Park

Fairmount Park is the largest municipal park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the historic name for a group of parks located throughout the city.

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Fairmount, Philadelphia

Fairmount is a neighborhood within the Greater Center City District of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Fats Domino

Antoine "Fats" Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017) was an American pianist and singer-songwriter.

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Five Stairsteps

The Five Stairsteps, known as "The First Family of Soul", were an American Chicago soul group made up of five of Betty and Clarence Burke Sr.'s six children: Alohe Jean, Clarence Jr., James, Dennis, and Kenneth "Keni", and briefly, Cubie.

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Forget Him (Bobby Rydell song)

"Forget Him" is a song released in 1963 by Bobby Rydell.

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Frankie Avalon

Frankie Avalon (born Francis Thomas Avallone; September 18, 1940) is an Italian-American actor, singer, and former teen idol.

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Garage rock

Garage rock (sometimes called 60s punk or garage punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced various revivals in the last several decades.

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Grand Funk Railroad

Grand Funk Railroad, sometimes shortened as Grand Funk, is an American rock band popular during the 1970s, when they toured extensively and played to packed arenas worldwide.

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Hank Ballard

Hank Ballard (born John Henry Kendricks; November 18, 1927 – March 2, 2003) was a rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, the lead vocalist of Hank Ballard and the Midnighters and one of the first rock and roll artists to emerge in the early 1950s.

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Jo Ann Campbell

Jo Ann Campbell (born July 20, 1938 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American pop singer.

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John Zacherle

John Zacherle (sometimes credited as John Zacherley; September 26, 1918 – October 27, 2016) was an American television host, radio personality, singer, and voice actor.

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Kal Mann

Kal Mann (May 6, 1917 – November 28, 2001) - accessed June 2010 was an American lyricist.

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Kissin' Time (song)

"Kissin' Time" is a song by the American singer Bobby Rydell.

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Len Barry

Len Barry (born Leonard Borisoff on June 12, 1942 in West Philadelphia) is a Grammy nominated American vocalist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Let's Twist Again

"Let's Twist Again" is a song written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell, and released as a single by Chubby Checker.

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List of record labels

For lists of record labels, see.

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London Records

London Records is a record label in the U.K. that marketed records in the U.S, Canada, and Latin America from 1947 to 1979 before becoming semi-independent.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Mala Records

Mala Records was a small record label founded as a Bell Records subsidiary in 1959.

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Maynard Ferguson

Walter Maynard Ferguson C.M. (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader.

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Merv Griffin

Mervyn Edward Griffin Jr. (July 6, 1925 – August 12, 2007) was an American television host and media mogul.

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MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films.

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Neil Bogart

Neil E. Bogart (born Neil Scott Bogatz) (February 3, 1943 – May 8, 1982) was an American record executive.

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New Colony Six

New Colony Six (sometimes abbreviated as NC6) is an American soft rock band whose height of popularity was from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.

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Novelty song

A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect.

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Ohio Express

The Ohio Express is an American bubblegum pop band, formed in Mansfield, Ohio in 1967.

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Phil Upchurch

Phil Upchurch (born July 19, 1941, Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues, jazz and R&B guitarist and bassist.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

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Pop rock

Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is rock music with a greater emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude.

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Pye International Records

Pye International Records was a record label founded in 1958, as a subsidiary of Pye Records.

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Pye Records

Pye Records was a British record label.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Ricky Nelson

Eric Hilliard Nelson (May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985) was an American rock and roll star, musician, and singer-songwriter.

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Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator for New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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So Much in Love

"So Much in Love" is a popular song sung by The Tymes that was #1 in the United States in 1963.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Terry Knight and the Pack

Terry Knight and the Pack (earlier known as the Pack) was an American garage rock band formed in Flint, Michigan in 1965.

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The Applejacks (US band)

The Applejacks were a group of American studio musicians led by Dave Appell (March 24, 1922 – November 18, 2014), a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Cha-Cha-Cha

"The Cha-Cha-Cha" is a song released in 1962 by Bobby Rydell.

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The Coasters

The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group who had a string of hits in the late 1950s.

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The Dovells

The Dovells were an American music group, formed at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1957, under the name 'The Brooktones'.

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The Kinks

The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The Orlons

The Orlons are an American R&B group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that formed in 1960.

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The Rank Organisation

The Rank Organisation was a British entertainment conglomerate founded by industrialist J. Arthur Rank in April 1937.

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The Rays

The Rays were an American group formed in New York in 1955, and active into the early 1960s.

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The Spokesmen

The Spokesmen were an American pop music trio.

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The Twist (song)

"The Twist" is an American pop song written and originally released in early 1959 (having been recorded on 11/11/1958) by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side to "Teardrops on Your Letter".

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The Tymes

The Tymes are an American soul vocal group, who enjoyed equal success in the United Kingdom and in their homeland.

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The Yellow Payges

The Yellow Payges were an American rock band, led by singer Dan Hortter, who were formed in Los Angeles, California in 1966.

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Van McCoy

Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 – July 6, 1979) was an American musician, record producer, arranger, songwriter, singer and orchestra conductor.

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Volare (song)

"Nel blu dipinto di blu" ("In the blue painted blue"), popularly known as "Volare" (meaning "To fly"), is a song recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Domenico Modugno.

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We Got Love (Bobby Rydell song)

"We Got Love" is a song written by Bernie Lowe and Kal Mann.

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Wild One (Bobby Rydell song)

"Wild One" is a song written by Dave Appell, Kal Mann, and Bernie Lowe.

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Wyncote, Pennsylvania

Wyncote is a census-designated place (CDP) bordering North Philadelphia in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear

"(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" is a popular song first recorded by Elvis Presley in 1957 for the soundtrack of his second motion picture, Loving You, during which Presley performs the song on screen.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameo-Parkway_Records

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