History Music / Cameo

* ButNotTooBlack: Larry Blackmon hated when people referred to his band as funk, as he felt that, at the time at least, it was a label used to keep a lot of under-the-radar black acts from crossover success.

!!!Trope Up, up, everybody say, when you hear that call you've got to get it underway!

[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Aaron Mills, Tomi Jenkins, Larry Blackmon, Anthony Lockett, and Jeff Nelson.]]

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* DanceSensation: "Shake Your Pants"

%%* HeavyMeta: "Funk Funk"

* IWantSong" "I Just Want to Be"

-->She's a 9, a 10 a 25th

* SillyLoveSongs: "She's Strange," "Attack Me With Your Love," "Why Have I Lost You," "Hangin' Downtown," etc.
%%* SingerNamedrop: "Cameosis"

Not to be confused with TheCameo, '''Cameo''' are a {{Funk}}-{{Soul}} band from UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. Led by Larry Blackmon, they started in 1974 as the '''New York City Players''' before changing their name to Cameo to [[OneSteveLimit avoid being confused with]] the Ohio Players. The group has gone through '''many''' lineup changes over the years, with Blackmon being the one constant. Among their most famous songs are "Word Up!," "Candy" and "She's Strange."

!!! "Trope Up, up, everybody say, when you hear that call you've got to get it under way":

* ShoutOut: "Tribute to Music/BobMarley"

-->'''Word Up'''

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: In spades. On the one hand, their sound and style definitely fit under the category of funk and R&B, but there were elements of hard rock and synth pop in some of their later material. As mentioned above, Larry Blackmon didn't like how funk was used to dismiss black music from crossing over in the early 80s.

* HeavyMeta: "Funk Funk"
* IAmTheBand

* IntercourseWithYou: "Keep It Hot," etc.
* LargeHam: Larry Blackmon

* SingerNamedrop: "Cameosis"
* VerbalTic: "Owwww!"