About
Owned by the Cameo Record Corporation, Muse Phonograph Record was a budget label produced for the S. H. Kress dime store chain. Launched in February 1922, it lasted only until mid-1924. The first 100 issues re-issue Cameo (3) masters and duplicate Cameo couplings and catalog numbers, except for a few that used masters from The Jones Recording Laboratories. In 1923, production of the Muse label was briefly contracted to the Scranton Button Company. That is why the catalog numbers 301-340 reproduce masters from The New Emerson label and other affiliated brands that pressed with Scranton, including Grey Gull, Banner, and [Regal (3)]. In early 1924, Cameo again took on the Muse label, which is reflected in the renewed appearance of Cameo (3) recordings under pseudonym. In the summer of 1924, however, the label was replaced by the similarly Cameo-produced Tremont label.