OKeh Historical Survey: OKeh/Odeon Catalog Series

Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934, compiled by Ross Laird and Brian Rust.


Following is a complete listing of all known OKeh/Odeon catalog series used during the period covered by this volume (1918-1934). All the following series are double-sided lateral records unless otherwise indicated:

Catalog No.DescriptionDates
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 1928-1930
4000 10” OKeh popular 1920-1923
5000 Odeon/Fonotipia 10” classical 1921-1930
6000 Odeon/Fonotipia 10” classical 1919-1924
7000 OKeh 10”  vertical classical 1918-1919
7000 OKeh 12”  popular 1924-1926
8000 OKeh 10” race 1921-1934
9000 OKeh/Odeon 10” Italian 1920-1930
10000 Odeon 10” German 1920-1929
11000 Odeon 1 0”  Polish 1920-1930
12000 Odeon 10” Hungarian 1922-1929
13000 Odeon 10” Roumanian 1924-1926
13500 Odeon 10” Finnish 1924-1926
14000 OKeh 10” Jewish 1920-1924
14000 OKeh 10” Porto Rican 1930-1931
15000 Odeon 10” Russian 1923-1930
15500 Odeon 10” Ukrainian 1923-1929
16000 OKeh 10” Mexican 1921-1929
16400 OKeh 10” Mexican 1921-1934
17000 Odeon 10” Bohemian 1921-1930
18000 Odeon 10”Slovak 1923-1930
19000 Odeon 10” Scandavian/Swedish 1921-1931
20000 Odeon 10” Danish 1921
20000 Odeon 10” popular 1921-1922
20000 OKeh 12” race 1926
21000 OKeh 10”  Irish 1921-1927
22000 Odeon 10” French 1922-1923
23000 Odeon 10”Serbo-Croatian 1922-1927
25000 Odeon 10” Croatian 1922-1924
24000 Odeon 1 0” Slovenian-Krainer 1922-1927
25000 Odeon 10” Norwegian 1922-1930
26000 OKeh 10” Lithuanian 1922-1929
27000 Odeon 10” Swiss 1922
27500 Odeon 10” Welsh 1922-1923
28000 Odeon 10” Greek 1922-1928
29000 Odeon 10” Portuguese 1922-1926
29000 Odeon 10” Chinese 1928-
33000 Odeon 10” Spanish 1923-1926
34000 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾”  standard vocal 1921-1921
40000 OKeh 10” popular 1923-1934
45000 single-sided Odeon 12” operatic 1921-1922
45000 OKeh 10”  hillbilly 1925-1932
50000 single-sided Odeon 12”  standard vocal 1921-1922
50100 single-sided Fonotipia 12”operatic  1921-1922
50300 single-sided Fonotipia 12” operatic 1921-1922
50400 single-sided Fonotipia 12” operatic 1921
50500 single-sided Fonotipia 12” operatic 1922
50600 single-sided Fonotipia 12” operatic 1922-1923
50700 single-sided Odeon 12” operatic  1923
52000 single-sided Fonotipia 12” operatic 1922
52100 single-sided Fonotipia 12” operatic 1921-1922
52200 single-sided Fonotipia 12” operatic 1921-1922
52300 single-sided Fonotipia/Odeon 12” classical 1921
52800 single-sided Fonotipia 12” operatic 1921
52900 single-sided Fonotipia 12” operatic 1922
53100 single-sided Fonotipia/Odeon 12” classical 1922-1923
53200 single-sided Fonotipia 12” operatic 1923
53300 single-sided Fonotipia 12” operatic 1923
55000 Odeon 10” choral 1922-1923
57000 OKeh 10” choral 1926
63000 single-sided Odeon 10” operatic 1923
65000 OKeh 10” West Indian 1924-1926
67000 Odeon 12” Polish 1925-1926
69000 Odeon 10” Bulgarian 1925-1926
70000 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾”standard vocal 1921-1922
70100 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾” operatic 1921
70200 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾” operatic 1921
70400 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾” operatic 1921-1922
72000 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾”  classical 1921
72100 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾” classical 1921-1923
72200 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾” classical 1921
72300 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾” classical 1921-1922
72400 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾” classical 1921
72500 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾” operatic 1921
72600 single-sided Odeon 10  ¾” operatic 1921-1923
72700 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾” operatic 1921-1922
72800 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾” operatic 1922
72900 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾” operatic 1922
73000 single-sided Odeon 10 ¾” operatic 1922
77000 Odeon 10” Armenian 1925-1926
78000 Odeon 10 ¾” Armenian 1925-1926
80000 Odeon 10 ¾” Hebrew Jewish 1922?
80500 Odeon 10 ¾” Portuguese 1922?
81000 Odeon 10 ¾” German 1922-1923
81500 OKeh/Odeon 12” Ukrainian 1929
82000 Odeon 10 ¾” Greek 1922-
82500 OKeh/Odeon 12” Greek  1924-1930
83000 Odeon 10 ¾”  Turkish 1922
83500 Odeon 12” Roumanian 1923
84000 Odeon 10 ¾” Italian 1921-
85000 OKeh/Odeon 12’’ German 1921-1929
86000 OKeh 12” Italian 1921-1929
86500 Odeon 12” Hungarian 1923?
87000 Odeon 12” Polish 1922-1929
88000 OKeh 12” Mexican 1923?
89000 OKeh 12” Bohemian 1923-1928

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. The client was in some cases a private individual and in other cases a regional outlet (often a music store).

These “Specials” are little known and poorly documented and there were certainly more produced than those listed in this volume. Since distribution was usually extremely limited or non-existent, and was, at best, through a single outlet or within a single regional location, they are all quite rare and there is no way of knowing how many such special pressings there may be. Those known and listed in this volume are credited to the client or distributor either prominently or elsewhere on the label below the OKeh logo. The label design varies, although some client pressings are similar in appearance to contemporary OKeh records and often (but not always) there is a manufacturer credit to the General Phonograph Corporation, New York.

Known “Specials” include Ambassador Record, Beacham Record, Buffalo Record, Burke Record, Creath Record, Cruz Record, Fattey Record, Geake Record, Hello World, Martha Lee Record, Memphis Record, Morrison Record, Nealy Record, Rambler’s Record, Rational Rhythm, Scott Record, Special Record, Sunshine, Sunshine Gospel Record, Thompson Record, and Westfield Band Inc.

 


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Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934 . Compiled by Ross Laird and Brian Rust. Reprinted by permission.