Word: okeh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Come On Home (Duke Ellington; Okeh). "Father, oh father, come home with me now" brought up to date. The Duke gets more tomtoms and wailing reeds into this one than he has in years, comes close to the free-wheeling style that made him famous...
Collectors' Note: Okeh has reissued some famous oldtimers: I'm Confessin' (Louis Armstrong); Willow Weep for Me (Cab Galloway); Wiggle Woogie (Count Basic); Gimme a Pigfoot (Bessie Smith...
Editor Mathews also does his bit to settle a perennial argument over a unique American contribution-O.K. Some scholars have always insisted that the term originated with Andrew Jackson, a notoriously bad speller who was supposed to mark official documents O.K. for oll korrect. Woodrow Wilson used okeh on the theory that the word came from the Choctaw hoke, meaning "Yes, it is." Mathews' preference: that it sprang up first during the presidential campaign of 1840, when Van Buren's supporters organized a mysterious O.K. Club. The initials were those of Van Buren's home town...