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Since I don't recall the original
price, what is the "half price?"
Steven C. Barr
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EMOR shows 1934 OKehs in the
16800 (Mex-Tex) and 90000 (Cajun) series. Best was the revived Irish
21000 series, recycling 1920s Columbia mxs on green shellac. Saints
preserve us.
Incidentally,
if anyone wants EMOR at half price, it's on offer at the moment from U of
IL--call 800 537 5487, and mention code B47S. Don't tell them I sent
you!
Dick
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From: Dick
Spottswood
>>>>>>>
Columbia's early '30s varied matrix designations are complicated
&
often unclear. The 350000s seem to be renumbered from OKeh & Col
mxs. In
1931, OKeh seems to have been beccome a budget label, sharing
new releases
with Clarion, Velvet Tone & Harmony. OKeh used
fictitious bandleader names
like Buddy Campbell & Ed Parker, Cloverdale
Country Club Orch. etc. on these
releases. Louis Armstrong's records
weren't disguised, nor were new
hillbilly & race releases, all of which
kept using conventional OKeh W
400000 matrix numbers. The highest
OKeh matrix (made 21 March 32 in
Chicago) is:
W 405189-?
Kepin' Out of Mischief Now
Clarion 5470-C, Harmony
1423-H, OKeh 41564, VT 2530-V
by Paul
Specht's orchestra, OKeh as Cloverdale CC (accoring to files) or
Buddy
Campbell (according to Rust). Non-OKeh issues give matrix as
W
351163. The session included 3 more titles with mx #s W 405186-89
and W
351161-65--no W 351164 according to my notes, which could be wrong!).
At
any rate, it looks as though OKeh ceased to be active in
3/32, along with
the other labels, The Okeh name was used again in
1934, 1940, and in the
1950s & 1960s. Harmony reappeared a couple
of times later on, but it was
sayonara for the others, and the W 350000
matrix series too.
On April 11, 1933, mxs W 405190-97 were created for
mxs by Freddy Martin's
orch and Frances Langford. The Langfords
weren't published; the Martin
sides were renumbered (W 152387-92) and
issued on Columbia. The OKeh matrix
series then expired
permanently.
Columbia's 2000 matrices were made in Tokyo, 1903.
The W 110000 series
(1929) was part of the general foreign language
group W100000-W 114014, see
my Ethnic Music on Records (Univ of IL, 1990)
for details.
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It's worth noting that Okeh
seems to take a hiatus, and then reappear
sporadically! The
records
from 41565 through 41568 are all recorded in the latter part of
1933 (though
they could have been
held for 1934 issue, one
supposes)...and the use of the 400000 matrix series
in early 1933
suggest
the label was more dormant than dead. 41569-70 were issued after
the ARC
takeover; 41571 through
41588 look to be a mixture of reissued
Columbia sides with UK material until
the end of that
incarnation of
Okeh at 41588. I'm sure that ledgers must exist detailing the
issue dates
of
these final Okehs, but I've never seen them or copies of them. I'd like
to,
though...I first
tried to figure this out back in 1979 when I
compiled the first version of
the DG!
Steven C.
Barr
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