Okeh
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Major Lance
Billy Butler
Larry Wiliams
Azie Mortimer
Cookie Jackson
Opals
Walter Jackson
Okeh Records pioneered the practice of "location recording" in 1922. Starting in 1924 Okeh also sent mobile recording trucks to tour other parts of the country to record performers not heard in New York or Chicago. Regular return trips were made once or twice a year to New Orleans, Louisiana, Atlanta, Georgia, San Antonio, Texas, St. Louis, Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, and Detroit, Michigan, recording a wealth of jazz and early country music artists.
In 1926 Okeh switched to the electric microphone system of audio recording. On November 11 of that year, controlling interest in Okeh was purchased by Columbia Records. Beside the legendary OKeh Race 8000 Series (which featured some of the great blues and black jazz of the era), OKeh recorded a series of legendary "chamber" hot jazz sessions with Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, Frank Trumbauer's studio groups, Miff Mole's studio groups, among others. These are considered among the best of the 1920s hot small-group white jazz sessions.
The Okeh label was continued until 1935. Columbia again revived the label in 1940 after they lost the rights to the Vocalion name (by dropping the Brunswick label) and pressed it until 1946. It was revived once again in the 1950s and used sporadically through the 1990s. Epic Records took over management of Okeh in 1965. Among the artists during Okeh's "pop" phase of the 50s and 60s were Johnnie Ray, Little Joe & The Thrillers, and Little Richard. With Northern Soul music coming to the forefront in the 60s, Okeh signed Major Lance, who gave the label two big successes with The Monkey Time and Um Um Um Um Um Um. The success of Okeh in the 1960s was producer Carl Davis and songwriter Curtis Mayfield. After they left the label ( due to disputes with Epic/Okeh head Len Levy ), Okeh gradually slipped in sales, and was finally deactivated discreetly by CBS Records in 1970.