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• Four fantastic Cameo albums: ‘Knights Of The Sound Table’ (1981), ‘Alligator Woman’ (1982), ‘Style’ (1983), and ‘She’s Strange’ (1984) in one gloriously danceable funk-fuelled double CD package.
• Cameo was the brainchild of producer, drummer, and singer Larry Blackmon, who joined forces with the New Jersey singer Tomi Jenkins in 1974.
• The first of the four Albums to feature on this package is ‘Knights Of The Sound Table’ which was a huge commercial success. It spent three weeks at No. 2 in the US R&B Albums Chart, it also rose to No. 44 on The American Billboard Top 200 chart, maintaining Cameo’s crossover appeal. It features the tracks ‘Freaky Dancin’’ a Top 3 U.S. R&B hit.
• The second Album ‘Alligator Woman’ was the first Cameo album recorded in Atlanta. It was preceded by the first single ‘Just Be Yourself’, which spent 15 weeks in the US R&B Singles Chart, peaking at No. 12. An infectious slice of new wave-tinged Minneapolis-style punk-funk, Inexplicably, the song appeared on the album with a shorter title: ‘Be Yourself’.
• 'Style’, the third album in this set was Cameo’s first on their newly founded label, Atlanta Artists imprint. It also marked a further change in the band’s line up, leaving the band as four funkateers: Blackmon, Jenkins, Charlie Leftenant and Nathan Singleton.
• To complete this fabulous package is the Gold certified ‘She’s Strange’ slbum, the single of the same name entered the R&B Singles chart in February 1984 and by April, it had risen to pole position, spending a month at the top spot.
Tracklist
DISC ONE
Knights Of The Sound Table
1 Knights By Nights
2 Freaky Dancin'
3 I Never Knew
4 Use It Or Lose It
5 The Sound Table
6 Don't Be So Cool
7 I'll Always Stay
8 I Like It
Alligator Woman
9 Be Yourself
10 Soul Army
11 Flirt
12 Enjoy Your Life
13 Alligator Woman
14 Secrets Of Time
15 I Owe It All To You
16 For You
DISC TWO
Style
1 Aphrodisiac
2 This Life Is Not For Me
3 You're A Winner
4 Can't Help Falling In Love
5 Interlude (Serenity)
6 Cameo's Dance
7 Let’s Not Talk Slot
8 Slow Movin’
9 Heaven Only Knows
She’s Strange
10 She's Strange
11 Love You Anyway
12 Talkin' Out The Side Of Your Neck
13 Tribute To Bob Marley
14 Groove With You
15 Hangin' Downtown
16 Lé Ve Toi!