With this issue of JEMFQ we begin a numerical listing of the Romeo 5000 series of 78 rpm phonograph records. This important series of hillbilly and blues material began with number 5000, issued probably early in 1931, and continued through number 5494, released in August 1935. We are grateful to JEMF advisor Will Roy Hearne for assembling this listing and making it available here. The Romeo label was initiated in 1926 as a subsidiary of the Cameo Record Corporation, and was sold exclusively by S. H. Kress' 5-10-25 Stores. In August 1929, Cameo merged with the Plaza Music Company and the Pathe Phonograph and Radio Corp. to form the American Record Corporation. ARC was purchased in October 1930 by Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., who 14 months later purchased Brunswick and its associated labels from Warner. In 1938, CFI was bought by the Columbia Broadcasting System. [More correctly ARC leased the Brunswick material and CBS allowed that lease to lapse in 1940-ed.]