From the MCRFB news archives:
Cameo Leans On It’s ‘Limbo‘ Wave for 1963
PHILADELPHIA — Cameo-Parkway Records, which started out 1962 with a slew of hot twist singles and and LPs, thinks it has an even hotter dance going for it as 1963 begins. The would be The Limbo. The Chubby Checker single recording (disking) of “Let’s Limbo,” on Parkway, has passed the 1,600,000 mark according to the firm, and the LP, which was only issued two months ago, is now over the 200,000 sales figure, the Cameo firm has reported.
Cameo Parkway Records wound up with its hottest year in 1962 overall. The Philadelphia firm had a total of 17 singles on Cameo or Parkway in the top 50 of the Billboard “Top 100” chart, best showing of their product in sales thus far, which includes all sales culled from the labels’ recording acts, such as Bobby Rydell; The Tymes; Dee Dee Sharp; The Dovells; The Orlons, and Chubby Checker, the label’s hottest act since 1960. END.
(Information and news source: Billboard; January 12, 1963).
