Foray into OKeh
We recently began posting OKeh masters to the website. Our work is an electronic adaptation of Ross Laird’s and Brian Rust’s Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934 (Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2004), and represents the fourth record label to be included in the DAHR website. We'll have 3000 OKeh masters online in a few days and hundreds will be added each week.
As with data that form the basis of our documentation of Berliner and early Columbia recordings, the information provided by Messrs. Laird and Rust here is derived from existing discs and trade catalogs. Corporate archives, which form the basis of our Victor data, do not exist for Berliner and the early years of OKeh and Columbia. As a result, a lot of information about the early activities of OKeh remains unknown. Of the 15000 or so master numbers used by OKeh between 1918 and 1932, about 1200 remain mysteries. No information is known of the titles or the artists. That's not to say that none were issued, however. Below is a list of some of the discs for which the underlying matrix number is unknown. If any readers here happen to own any of these discs, and the matrix number is discernable, we'd love to hear from you in order to fill in our blanks.
Untraced OKeh Issues
The OKeh record sides shown below are some of those for which the underlying matrix number remains unknown to the editors. As a result, details on these records have not been included in the matrix listings. If you own or have access to any of these, please share the information with us so that we may add it to the body f the discography.
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Issue No. |
Artist |
Title |
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4025 |
Sam Ash |
A pretty girl is like a melody |
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Carroll Shannon |
Smiling thru' |
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4029 |
Joseph Phillips |
Hindu rose |
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4048 |
Van Eps Quartette |
'Round the comer |
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Green Bros. Xylophone Orch. |
Turko |
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4058 |
Conway's Band |
A la carte - One-step |
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" " |
Ching-a-ling - One-step |
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4101 |
Rega Dance Orchestra |
When the sun goes down in Cairo Town |
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" " " |
Oriental stars |
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4109 |
All Star Trio |
Whose baby are you? |
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Green Bros. Novelty Band |
Manyana |
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4111 |
Sam Ash |
Ages and ages |
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Billy Jones |
Everybody's buddy |
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4115 |
Joseph Knecht's Waldorf-Astoria Orch. |
Zoma |
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4123 |
Joseph Knecht's Waldorf-Astoria Orch. |
The crocodile |
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All Star Trio |
Hullo, home |
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4129 |
American Quartette |
I love the land of Old Black Joe |
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4142 |
Harry McClaskey |
Because |
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Carroll Shannon |
Dear heart |
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4147 |
Harvey Hindermyer |
You and your smile |
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Reed Miller |
Shadows of love |
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4148 |
Elliott Shaw |
I'm waiting for ships that never come in |
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Shannon Four |
I'm on my way |
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4150 |
Sterling Trio |
My Dixie rosary |
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Hart & Shaw |
Mammy's goodnight lullaby |
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4186 |
James & Shaw |
Moonlight in Mandalay |
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Neilson & James |
Sweet Luana |
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4200 |
Lewis James |
Out where the West begins |
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Eugene T. Spencer |
Rose of my heart |
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4229 |
Billy Jones |
Broadway rose |
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Lewis James |
Little crumbs of happiness |
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4240 |
Mario Perry, accordion |
You're just like a rose |
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" " " |
It isn't what she does |
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4308 |
Rega Dance Orchestra |
Until we part |
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4347 |
Billy Jones |
Oh they're such nice people |
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Jones & Hare |
Down yonder |
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4349 |
Natzy's Hotel Biltmore Orch. |
Just keep a thought for me |
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" " " |
Every night |
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4393 |
Bernard Ferguson |
Bedouin love song |
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|
" " |
Where my caravan has rested |
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4431 |
Wilfred Glenn |
Saved by grace |
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" " |
Just as I am |
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4434 |
Bernard Ferguson |
On the road to Mandalay |
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Charles E..Galagher |
Armorer's song |
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4443 |
Damon's Orchestra |
Fancies |
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Joseph Knecht's Waldorf-Astoria Orch. |
Figaro |
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Glantz & His Orchestra |
Senorita |
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4500 |
Damon's Orchestra |
Blue moon |
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" " |
Goodbye pretty butterflies |
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4505 |
Blue Diamond Dance Orch. |
Hawaiian starlight |
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4538 |
No information known |
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4567 |
Glantz & His Orchestra |
Wana |
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" " " |
Never mind |
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4574 |
The Original Six |
Don't forget |
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" " |
Eyes |
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4584 |
Kennedy & Hare |
Mutt and Jeff on socialism |
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" " |
Bringing up Father with Lloyd George |
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4588 |
Vaughn De Leath |
Can't feel jolly blues |
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4592 |
Glantz & His Orchestra |
Waltz me, Sweetie, waltz me |
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4593 |
Markel's Orchestra |
Idola |
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" " " |
High brown blues |
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4603 |
Joseph Phillips |
Flee as a bird |
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4610 |
Markel's Orchestra |
Black eyed blues |
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Rega Dance Orchestra |
Poor little me |
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4613 |
Sterling Trio |
That tumble-down shack in Athlone |
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4639 |
Glantz & His Orchestra |
Blushes |
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4651 |
Shannon Four |
All hail the power of Jesus' name |
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" " |
Ten thousand times ten thousand |
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4695 |
Rega Dance Orchestra |
Ja-da blues |
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4763 |
Rega Dance Orchestra |
Flower of Araby |
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4799 |
Sibyl S. Fagan, Whistling |
April sighs |
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4810 |
Vincent Lopez & Hotel Pennsylvania Orch. |
Think of me |
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" " " |
Without you |
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4825 |
Banta & Hess, piano duet |
Corn on the cob |
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" " " |
Slipova |
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4853 |
Gaylord & Gaylord |
Over the waves |
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" " " |
Happy days |
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4860 |
Billy Jones |
Little rover |
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|
Lewis James |
That's why I cried over you |
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4870 |
Billy Jones |
South Sea eyes |
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Virginia Burt |
Honolulu honeymoon |
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4873 |
Elinor Remick Warren, piano |
Papillons |
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|
" " " |
Country dance no.1 |
|
4957 |
Joseph Phillips |
Cinderella |
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|
" " |
The Pied Piper |
|
7001 |
Conway's Band |
Trovatore |
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|
" " |
Reminiscences of Verdi |
|
8081 |
No information known |
|
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8131 |
Plantation Trio |
Chicken opera |
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|
" " |
Oh! What a time |
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8165 |
Lawrence Lomax |
Without you dear |
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" " |
Sweetheart mine |
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8204 |
Williams and Todd |
Just a cotton picker's blues |
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Clarence Williams |
Temptation blues |
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8271 |
Billy King |
Blessed with trouble |
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" " |
Runnin' round |
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8406 |
George McClennon |
Disaster |
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" " |
Narrow escape |