49 shellac records · mostly British pressings, 1900s–1950s
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New Orleans pianist Armand Hug and drummer Ray Bauduc with 'Breezin' Along' and 'Little Rock Getaway' on American OKeh.AI summary
Okeh 6802 Jazz
Benny Goodman with That Did It, Marie and Somebody Else Is Taking My Place on Okeh 6497.AI summary
Okeh 6497 Jazz
Benny Goodman's orchestra with 'The Lamp of Memory' and 'When the Roses Bloom Again' on American OKeh.AI summary
Okeh 6580 Jazz
Benny Goodman and his orchestra with 'My Little Cousin' and 'Zoot Suit' on American OKeh.AI summary
Okeh 6606 Jazz
Benny Goodman's orchestra with 'Jersey Bounce' and 'A String of Pearls' on American OKeh.AI summary
Okeh 6590 Jazz
Cab Calloway, the American jazz legend known as the 'Hi-De-Ho Man', recorded 'Ghost of a Chance' and 'Come on with Me' for Okeh, catalogue 5687; Okeh was a major American jazz label and these sides date from the early 1930s.AI summary
Okeh 5687 Jazz
Charles Sargent and J Marvin are credited to this OK Records pressing of jazz standards 'Farewell Blues' and 'Go Long Mule' from the early 1920s. OK was a small American label with limited distribution in Britain.AI summary
Okeh 40139 Jazz
Count Basie and his orchestra with 'It's Torture' and 'I Want a Little Girl' on American OKeh.AI summary
Okeh 5773 Jazz
Dolores Hawkins with Rocks in My Bed and Heavenly Father on OKeh 6880.AI summary
Okeh 6880 Jazz
Okeh 41410 Jazz
Esther Bigeou was among the earliest blues singers recorded in the 1920s; "Stingaree Blues" appeared on Okeh's pioneering 8000 race series, which carried some of the first commercial blues recordings.AI summary
Okeh 8025 Jazz
Esther Bigeou, a blues singer who recorded for Okeh in the early 1920s, heard here on "Leave My Sweet Daddy Alone" and "Hesitating Blues".AI summary
Okeh 8065 Jazz
Eva Taylor was a blues and jazz vocalist active in the 1920s–30s. Okeh 4805 ('12th Street Rag' and 'Downhearted Blues') captures her work.AI summary
Okeh 4805 Jazz
Eva Taylor, backed by pianist and bandleader Clarence Williams, on "Barefoot Blues", a 1920s Okeh race-series release.AI summary
Okeh 8073 Jazz
Frankie Trumbauer and his orchestra play 'Deep Harlem' and 'Get Happy' on American OKeh.AI summary
Okeh 41431 Jazz
Gene Krupa's orchestra with 'Fightin' Doug MacArthur' and 'Night of Nights' on American OKeh.AI summary
Okeh 6635 Jazz
Gene Krupa's orchestra with 'Me and My Melinda' and 'Pass the Bounce' on American OKeh.AI summary
Okeh 6619 Jazz
Gene Krupa's orchestra plays 'Blue Rhythm Fantasy' on American OKeh.AI summary
Okeh 5627 Jazz
Gene Krupa and his orchestra recorded 'Yes My Darling Daughter' and 'Blues Krieg' for OK 5909. Krupa was one of the most important drummers and bandleaders in jazz history.AI summary
Okeh 5909 Jazz
Gene Krupa, the swing-era drummer. Okeh 6106 ('Wire Brush Stomp' and 'Hamtramck') captures his dynamic drumming style.AI summary
Okeh 6106 Jazz
Gene Krupa's orchestra with Let Me Off Uptown, his 1941 hit with Anita O'Day and Roy Eldridge, and Flamingo on Okeh 6210.AI summary
Okeh 6210 Jazz
Gene Krupa's orchestra performing swing jazz on OK Records, an American label that was distributed in the UK in the late 1930s.AI summary
Okeh 5997 Jazz
Gene Krupa was the drummer who defined the swing era's rhythmic energy. Okeh 6210 ('Let Me Off Uptown' and 'Flamingo') are classic swing recordings of the late 1930s.AI summary
Okeh 6210 Jazz
Okeh 40289 Jazz
Hadda Brooks (1916-2002), the Los Angeles pianist and singer, with Time Was When and All Night Long on Okeh 6865.AI summary
Okeh 6865 Jazz
Joe Venuti, the pioneering jazz violinist, with 'Doin' Things' and 'I Must Have That Man' on American OKeh.AI summary
Okeh 41133 Jazz
Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues", recorded in 1928 with his Hot Five, is one of the most influential recordings in jazz history, Armstrong's opening unaccompanied cadenza often cited as a turning point in the music.AI summary
Okeh 41078 Jazz
Mamie Smith, whose 1920 Okeh recording "Crazy Blues" effectively launched the commercial blues record industry, on an early-1920s Okeh pressing.AI summary
Okeh 4194 Jazz
Mamie Smith, the singer whose 1920 "Crazy Blues" launched the race-record era, recorded "If You Don't Want Me Blues" for Okeh in the early 1920s.AI summary
Okeh 4228 Jazz
Mamie Smith made the first blues vocal recording, 'Crazy Blues', in 1920 for Okeh, a landmark moment in recorded music; this disc preserves two further sides from her pioneering sessions, and British copies of these American Okeh pressings are uncommon.AI summary
Okeh 4295 Jazz
Mamie Smith made the first blues vocal recording by an African American singer in 1920 and remained a popular Okeh artist through the decade; this disc pairs 'Daddy Your Mama Is Lonesome for You' with 'Saxophoney Blues'.AI summary
Okeh 4416 Jazz
Mamie Smith, the first black singer to record a blues vocal commercially in 1920, cut "Arkansas Blues" and "Down Home Blues" for Okeh in the early 1920s, part of the pioneering race-record catalogue she helped launch.AI summary
Okeh 4446 Jazz
Mamie Smith recorded "Wabash Blues" for Okeh in the early 1920s, part of the catalogue that followed her groundbreaking 1920 recording "Crazy Blues".AI summary
Okeh 4578 Jazz
Mamie Smith, the pioneering blues singer whose 1920 recordings opened the race-record market, cut "Mean Daddy Blues" for Okeh in the early 1920s.AI summary
Okeh 4631 Jazz
Okeh 6119 Jazz
Paul Robeson's 1941 recording of "King Joe", a tribute to boxer Joe Louis with lyrics by Richard Wright set to music by Count Basie's orchestra.AI summary
Okeh 6475 Jazz
Red Allen was a New Orleans trumpet virtuoso who played with nearly everyone who mattered in jazz. Okeh 6281 ('Ol' Man River' and 'KK Boogie') captures him in the swing era.AI summary
Okeh 6281 Jazz
Roosevelt Sykes, the blues pianist known as 'The Honeydripper', recorded prolifically for Okeh's race catalogue; this disc dates from the early 1930s.AI summary
Okeh 6709 Jazz
Sara Martin was a prolific classic blues singer of the 1920s recording for Okeh; this disc pairs her versions of 'Sugar Blues' and 'Achin' Hearted Blues' from Okeh's celebrated 8000 'race' series.AI summary
Okeh 8041 Jazz
Sara Martin was a prolific classic blues singer of the 1920s, and this disc is part of Okeh's historically important 8000 'race' series, which seldom surfaces in British collections.AI summary
Okeh 8093 Jazz
Sara Martin was a classic blues singer of the 1920s recorded for Okeh's influential race-record series; this disc carries two of her blues sides, and UK survivals of the American Okeh 8000 series are uncommon.AI summary
Okeh 8203 Jazz
The blues singer Sara Martin with 'Keeps on A-Rainin'' and 'Michigan Water Blues' in the OKeh 8000 'race' series. Original copies of the series are seldom found in Britain; it carried some of the most important blues and jazz of the 1920s.AI summary
Okeh 8060 Jazz
The blues singer Sara Martin with Fats Waller at the piano, 'Tain't Nobody's Bus'ness If I Do' and 'You've Got Everything a Sweet Mama Needs But Me', from 1922. These were among Waller's very first recordings. Original copies of the OKeh 8000 'race' series are seldom found in Britain; the series carried some of the most important blues and jazz of the 1920s.AI summary
Okeh 8043 Jazz
Sippie Wallace was a classic blues singer of the 1920s whose Okeh recordings, including this "I'm a Mighty Tight Woman" coupling, are part of the label's celebrated 8000 race series.AI summary
Okeh 8439 Jazz
Victoria Spivey paired with guitarist Lonnie Johnson on "New Black Snake Blues", from Okeh's celebrated 8000 "race" series of the late 1920s.AI summary
Okeh 8626 Jazz
Victoria Spivey and guitarist Lonnie Johnson recorded "Furniture Man Blues" together for Okeh's 8000 race series in the late 1920s, part of a well-regarded run of duet sides.AI summary
Okeh 8652 Jazz
Victoria Spivey recorded "Toothache Blues" with guitarist Lonnie Johnson, one of several duet sides the pair made for Okeh's celebrated 8000 "race" series in the late 1920s.AI summary
Okeh 8744 Jazz
Virginia Liston, a 1920s blues and vaudeville singer, performing "Shreveport Blues" and "Jailhouse Blues" for Okeh's race series.AI summary
Okeh 8122 Jazz