Okeh Records - A Pictorial Discography - Out Now

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The real deal icon of Northern Soul labels.

I bet there's more folks got tats of this than any other label!

I practised re creating it a thousand times as a 15 year old!

Ed

Few more details on the book for anyone who might be interested

Okeh Records: A Pictorial Discography (4-7150 to 4-7337)

The book is split into five sections

(1)   A brief history of Okeh Records

(2)   A-Z of Okeh Artists 62 to 70

(3)   Okeh Picture Sleeves

(4)   A detailed discography of Okeh Records from 1962 until the labels demise in 1970.

(5)   Bits & Bobs & Facts & Figures

Total 84 A4 pages, 21 full colour sheets including scans of every record issued by the label from mid-1962 until 1970,. Discography contains details of each record taken direct from the record label and includes Artist / Title / Writer(s) / Arranger(s) / Producer(s) and ZSP number where these details were noted.

 

Cheers

Impressive...and all that jazz. OKeh.

Okeh Records is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918. The name was spelled "OkeH" from the initials of Otto K. E. Heinemann but later changed to "OKeh". 

Duh..

I thought it was from an american Indian word, okeh, used as an affirmative reply to a question..

Or an expansion of the miss spelt abbreviation of all korrect (ok) first printed in 1839 alledgidly...

Ed

 

 

Yep Choctaw Indian origin

Do any of the images in this book show any American Okeh 45s with an integral tri-centre?

29 minutes ago, Denbo said:

Do any of the images in this book show any 45s with a tri-centre?

No. Only the solid small hole US Okeh mini LP / jukes (Major Lance etc.), or the UK Columbia EPs with the usual 4 prong push-outs. I'm curious now though. Have you seen one?

I have indeed and it's on it's way in the post as we speak, it's an early American Okeh 45 with an integral tri-centre. I'll post it up as soon as it arrives. Got it off a good friend who knows how much I like oddities like this.
PS - As well as the UK Columbia EPs with the 4 pronged push-outs, there is of course the 45rpm singles as well.
 

Here we go. I for one have never seen one before and was wondering how common or rare they might have been?