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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    audiences. Race records were marketed by Okeh Records, Emerson Records, Vocalion Records, Victor Talking Machine Company, Paramount Records, and several...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • Company in 1915, then four years later started his own label, Okeh Records. In 1919, Okeh began issuing foreign recordings in the United States on the...
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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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    The Bad Plus (category Okeh Records artists)
    (Masterworks, 2014) Inevitable Western (Okeh, 2014) The Bad Plus Joshua Redman (Nonesuch, 2015) It's Hard (Okeh, 2016) Never Stop II (Legbreaker, 2018)...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • featured by Gertrude Saunders...". She also made several recordings for Okeh Records, with Tim Brymn's Black Devil Orchestra. She was spotted by vaudeville...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Stovepipe No. 1 (category Gennett Records artists)
    15011-D Recorded April 25, 1927 for Okeh Records: Court Street Blues - Okeh 8514 Sundown Blues - Unissued Recorded April 26, 1927 for Okeh Records: Untitled...
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  • There Will Never Be Another You (category Okeh Records singles)
    ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4. Okeh Records in the 6500 to 6999 series [1] Decca Records in the 27000 to 27495 series Capitol Records in the 100 to 499 series...
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  • You Are My Sunshine (category Okeh Records singles)
    June 18, he recorded "You Are My Sunshine" at CBS Columbia Square Studio, Hollywood, California, and it was released July 10 on Okeh Records. On July 8...
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