Fans of Bernie Lowe’s Philadelphia-based label, which fell into the hands of Allen Klein in the late 1960s, and from there into desuetude, were at least somewhat mollified by Abkco’s release of a four-disc Cameo/Parkway box in 2005, but that’s an awful lot to take at a single sitting, and the box unaccountably left off a lot of worthy tracks — Chubby Checker’s post-Twist quasi-folk material, for instance — so this is my own selection, in not-quite-chronological order, which ends in 1964 when Lowe sold out, and which includes tracks not included on the Abkco box. Scott Kovel took the cover photo: that’s the Schuylkill (”Sure-Kill”) Expressway westbound, from a couple of decades ago.

Track listing for 111092-2:

1. Charlie Gracie: Butterfly
2. The Rays: Silhouettes
3. John Zacherle: Dinner with Drac (Part I)
4. Bobby Rydell: Kissin’ Time
5. Chubby Checker: The Class
6. Bobby Rydell: We Got Love
7. The Applejacks: Mexican Hat Rock
8. Bobby Rydell: Wild One
9. Chubby Checker: The Twist
10. Bobby Rydell: Swingin’ School
11. Chubby Checker: Pony Time
12. Bobby Rydell: Volare
13. The Orlons: The Wah-Watusi
14. Chubby Checker: Let’s Twist Again
15. Dee Dee Sharp: Mashed Potato Time
16. Chubby Checker with Dee Dee Sharp: Slow Twistin’
17. Jo Ann Campbell: (I’m the Girl from) Wolverton Mountain
18. The Dovells: Bristol Stomp
19. Dee Dee Sharp: Gravy
20. Chubby Checker: Limbo Rock
21. The Orlons: Don’t Hang Up
22. Bobby Rydell: The Cha Cha Cha
23. Dee Dee Sharp: Ride!
24. The Dovells: You Can’t Sit Down
25. The Orlons: South Street
26. The Tymes: So Much in Love
27. Chubby Checker: Loddy Lo
28. The Orlons: Not Me
29. The Tymes: Wonderful! Wonderful!
30. Chubby Checker: Hey Bobba Needle
31. Candy and the Kisses: The 81
32. Chubby Checker: Lazy Elsie Molly