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    OKeh Records (/ˌoʊˈkeɪ/) is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which...
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    1995, he was signed to Okeh Records. He released Which Way to Here, an album that dealt with spirituality and tolerance. The record became Osborne's first...
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    Records label. Initial classical music releases were from Philips Records which distributed Columbia product in Europe. Pop talent on co-owned Okeh Records...
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    Columbia Records Discos CBS Epic Records Okeh Records Columbia Nashville CBS Masterworks EMI Records Odeon Records Oriole Records Parlophone Records EMI-Odeon...
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    At the time, sales of over 100,000 copies of "Crazy Blues", recorded for Okeh Records by the singer Mamie Smith (no relation), pointed to a new market...
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    oversaw stability and success.[citation needed] In 1926, Columbia acquired Okeh Records and its growing stable of jazz and blues artists, including Louis Armstrong...
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  • Lucille Bogan (category Okeh Records artists)
    Spencer. She first recorded vaudeville songs for Okeh Records in New York in 1923, with the pianist Henry Callens. Later that year she recorded "Pawn Shop Blues"...
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    Mississippi John Hurt (category Okeh Records artists)
    Satisfied)" (Okeh Records, OKeh 8724), 1928 "Ain't No Tellin'" / "Avalon Blues" (Okeh Records, OKeh 8759), 1928 Folk Songs and Blues (Piedmont Records, PLP 13157)...
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    Big Maybelle (category Okeh Records artists)
    debut solo recordings, recorded as Mabel Smith, were for King Records in 1947. In 1952, she was signed by Okeh Records, whose record producer Fred Mendelsohn...
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    Major Lance (category Okeh Records artists)
    few years. In 1962 he signed with Okeh Records on Mayfield's recommendation. Lance was constantly showing up at the Okeh offices, offering to run errands...
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    audiences. Race records were marketed by Okeh Records, Emerson Records, Vocalion Records, Victor Talking Machine Company, Paramount Records, and several...
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    Louis Armstrong (category Okeh Records artists)
    performed a duet on Hoagy Carmichael's "Rockin' Chair" they then recorded for Okeh Records. Armstrong's manager, Joe Glaser, changed the Armstrong big band...
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  • billing "The Texas Nightingale". Between 1923 and 1927, she recorded over 40 songs for Okeh Records, many written by her or her brothers, George and Hersal...
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    of OKeh Records, 1918-1934. Westport, CT: Praeger. ISBN 0313311420. Retrieved 29 June 2024. Annand, Major H. H. (1970). "The Indestructible Record Company:...
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  • List of Sony Music labels (category Lists of record labels)
    Milan Records Playbill Records Bluebird Records Masterworks Broadway Okeh Records Portrait Records RCA Red Seal Records Sony Classical Records Odyssey...
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  • They made a series of 40 recordings for Okeh Records and Columbia Records from 1927 through 1930, most recorded in New Orleans, Louisiana and Jackson,...
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    Screamin' Jay Hawkins (category Okeh Records artists)
    performed with accompaniment from Grimes’ band. In 1956, Hawkins signed with OKeh Records. When Hawkins became a solo performer, he often performed in a stylish...
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    Mamie Smith (category Okeh Records artists)
    Fred Hager to break the color barrier in black music recording. Okeh Records recorded many iconic songs by black musicians. Although this was the first...
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    Lydia Mendoza (category Okeh Records artists)
    Azteca, Peerless Records, El Zarape Records and Discos Falcon. The sampling below are from her earliest recordings with her family. The OKeh sessions – San...
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  • Blues in the Night (category Okeh Records singles)
    Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 page 181. Record Research. OKeh Records in the 6000 to 6499 series Columbia Records in the 39500 to 39999 series "Jo Stafford...
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    Hattie McDaniel (category Okeh Records artists)
    Denver. From 1926 to 1929, she recorded many of her songs for Okeh Records and Paramount Records in Chicago. McDaniel recorded two sides during a session...
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    Amazing Grace (category Okeh Records singles)
    1922 by the Sacred Harp Choir. It was included from 1926 to 1930 in Okeh Records' catalogue, which typically concentrated strongly on blues and jazz....
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  • Larry Williams (category Okeh Records artists)
    back into secular music. He produced two of Little Richard's albums for Okeh Records in 1966 and 1967, which returned Little Richard to the Billboard album...
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    I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (category Okeh Records singles)
    Sisters (on the album Those Enchanting...') Henry Burr (recorded 1919, released by OKeh Records as catalog number 1136, with the flip side “Those Wonderful...
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    Blind Lemon Jefferson (category Okeh Records artists)
    $1,500). In 1927, when Williams moved to Okeh Records, he took Jefferson with him, and Okeh quickly recorded and released Jefferson's "Matchbox Blues"...
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  • Records piano roll Johnson recorded earlier than the phonograph, which was recorded on October 18, 1921 in New York City and released by Okeh Records...
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    G. Love & Special Sauce (category Okeh Records artists)
    Massachusetts. In 1994, they released their self-titled debut album on Okeh Records. On the strength of the single "Cold Beverage", due in part to the song's...
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    Ahmad Jamal (category Okeh Records artists)
    City where John Hammond saw the band play and signed them to Okeh Records. Hammond, a record producer who discovered the talents and enhanced the fame of...
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    Little Richard (category Okeh Records artists)
    Richard later signed with Modern Records, releasing a modest charter, "Do You Feel It?" before leaving for Okeh Records in early 1966. His former Specialty...
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  • Richard M. Jones for Okeh Records. All their records were made in Okeh's recording studio in Chicago, Illinois. The same personnel recorded a session made under...
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