Okeh Records - Wikipedia OKeh Records ( ˌ oʊ ˈ k eɪ ) is an From 1921 to 1932, this series included music by Williams, Lonnie Johnson, After they left the label (due to disputes with Epic OKeh head Len Levy), OKeh sales gradually slipped, and the label was quietly retired by Columbia in 1970 1993–2000
OKeh Historical Survey: OKeh Corporate History - Discography of . . . He made a further visit to Germany in 1921 during which he negotiated access for General Phonograph Corp to recordings released by Lindström in Europe on the Odeon, Beka, Favorite, Dacapo, Lyrophon, Fonotipia and Parlophon labels whereby it is expected that the sale of OKeh and Odeon records will be increased tremendously as the result
OKEH (LABEL) | 576 | Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound - Taylor Francis Okeh records were on sale in May 1918, 10-inch, vertical-cut discs for $ 75 each The label was written in various ways, commencing as “OkeH” then going to all capitals with the middle letters smaller By 1921 the form was Okeh, with only the initial capitalized; “OKeh” is also seen
OKeh Record Series Overview (1918 – 1934) – The 78 rpm Club Catalog No Description Dates 1000 OKeh 10” vertical popular 1918-1919 1000 Odeon 12” classical 1921-1923 2000 Odeon 10 ¾ ” classical 1921-1923 3000 Odeon OKeh 12” 1921-1930 3500 10” Odeon international
Blues Record Labels – Welcome to Earlyblues. org Columbia Records was the first to follow Okeh into the race records industry in 1921, while Paramount Records began selling race records in 1922 and Vocalion entered in the mid-1920s In 1963, Carl Davis became OKeh’s A R manager and improved OKeh’s sales for a couple of years Epic took over management of OKeh in 1965
Okeh Records | the78rpmrecordspins Okeh Records began as an independent record label based in the United States of America in 1918 From 1926 on, it was a subsidiary of Columbia Records Okeh (pronounced ‘ okay ‘) was founded by Otto K E Heinemann (1877–1965), a German-American manager for the U S branch of German-owned Odeon Records As World War I raged in Europe, Heinemann thought it best to have an American based
OKeh Bibliography - Discography of American Historical Recordings OKeh Records, December Supplement, 1921 New York, General Phonograph Corp , 24 pp R S Peer made OKeh General Sales Manager ” “OKeh record by Victoria Spivey in Public Favor ” The Talking Machine World, July 15, 1926, p 1 “Columbia Co Buys OKeh Odeon Record Division of General Phonograph Corp ”
OKeh Historical Survey: OKeh Odeon Catalog Series In addition to the above series distributed by the various corporate entities which produced OKeh records there were a number of private recordings or “Specials” produced (mainly by General Phonograph Corp in the period 1920-1926) which while recorded and manufactured by OKeh had no distribution through OKeh dealers and were instead for the personal use or distribution of the client
OKeh Preface - Discography of American Historical Recordings OKeh Preface Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934, compiled by Ross Laird and Brian Rust This volume sets out to document as fully as possible all recordings made in the United States by the Otto Heineman Phonograph Supply Company, Inc , the General Phonograph Corporation, or the OKeh Phonograph Corporation for release on the OKeh and Odeon
TO OPEN BRANCH IN DETROIT COMMENTS ON THE PATHE FUTURE TALKING MACHINE . . . W C Fuhri, general sales manager of the Okeh record division of the General Phonograph Corp , announced this week that the Consolidated Talking Machine Co , Okeh jobber in Chicago, had arranged to open a branch in Detroit This branch will be located at the corner of Gratiot and Mitchell avenue, and E A Fearn, president
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Record Labels - Okeh Records | Old Time Blues The Okeh Record Company (pronounced "O-K") was founded in 1916 by Otto Heinemann, a manager of the US branch of Odeon Records Okeh's first records were vertically cut, but they switched to the more prevalent lateral cut in 1919 After a successful run of records by blues singer Mamie Smith in 1920, Okeh started making the first "Race" records
CHAPTER FIVE St (pdf) - CliffsNotes In 1921 the American record industry sold over one hundred million discs for the first brought Smith to the attention of the Okeh Record Company and suggested that she replace Sophie Tucker--a popular Jewish American vaudeville star who specialized in "Negro songs"--in a meaning that any further record sales were almost all profit)
Odeon - USA by xiphophilos | Discogs Lists From March 1921, the American Odeon Corporation released records under the Odeon label; an Od20000 series (1921-1922) offered popular music recorded at the OKeh studios in New York whereas reissues of Classical and opera music in 12" and 10 3 4" bore the prefix Am- Otto Heinemann's General Phonograph Corporation, New York, which also
MAMIE SMITH - All About Blues Music Total sales of the record were said to top a million, perhaps because shellac records became ‘played out’ so many of those sales were in fact re-purchases, but the record crossed-over into the bigger white market too Okeh released 23 records by Mamie in 1921-22 and most were closer to vaudeville tunes than Blues songs,