Word: okeh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record, through which Decca revolutionized the popular-record business seven years ago, was almost dead and buried. Columbia put its purple Okeh label into storage for the duration. Victor still clung to its Bluebird name, Decca to its standard blue label, but all three moved their top names (e.g., Victor's Glenn Miller, Columbia's Benny Goodman, Decca's Jimmy Dorsey) up to the 50? platters. Sole exception: Bing Crosby. This reshuffling was inevitable after the mid-April WPB order, cutting the use of all-important shellac in phonograph records by 70%. Another consequence: manufacturers required from...
King Joe (Joe Louis Blues) (Paul Robeson with Count Basie's band; Okeh). "Lord, I hate to see old Joe Louis step down"-words by Richard Wright (Native Son), music by Basie. A haymaker...
Limehouse Blues and If I Had You (Benny Goodman Sextet; Okeh). A new combination-Benny. Trombonist Lou McGarity, Pianist Mel Powell, three rhythm...
After You've Gone (Gene Krupa; Okeh). Sensational blasting by Trumpeter Roy Eldridge...
...Jersey State Court of Pardons last week paroled a lifer, Negro Clinton Brewer, because during 19 years in jail he had become a musician. He had written Stampede in G Minor, a jazz tune which sold well on an Okeh record; stood to get an orchestra arranger's job if freed. Convict Brewer, who had killed his wife during a quarrel, lost his speech because of a prison neurosis. Negro Richard Wright, author of Native Son (the story of a Negro killer), became interested in Musician Brewer. So did Jazz Pundit John Hammond and Band Leader Count Basie...