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Silbers. They recorded six recordings on the same day. It became a best-seller in the US in 1922, and is estimated to have sold around a million records. OKeh Records soon followed with the "Second Laughing Record", "The OKeh Laughing Dance Record" and "The OKeh Crying Record". Other record
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in 1920, by most accounts, and then purchased from that record label by OKeh
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label, the OKeh name was revived to replace it, and the script logo was introduced on a demonstration record announcing that event. The label was again discontinued in 1946 and revived again in 1951.
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became OKeh's A&R manager and improved OKeh's sales for a couple of years. Epic took over management of Okeh in 1965. Among the artists during OKeh's pop phase of the 1950s and 1960s were
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1464:Okeh Records
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1732:Crunchyroll
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1697:Sacra Music
1682:Kioon Music
1542:RCA Records
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1230:24 December
937:. pp.
693:Popa Chubby
629:Major Lance
618:Johnnie Ray
551:Sara Martin
529:Crazy Blues
525:Mamie Smith
391:King Oliver
371:Mamie Smith
218:(1953–1970)
1951:Categories
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781:References
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709:Sony Music
703:Since 2013
697:Little Axe
673:Sony Music
614:Carl Davis
555:Eva Taylor
435:Parlophone
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293:Sony Music
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117:March 2013
87:newspapers
1846:Som Livre
1818:RED Music
1562:Nashville
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874:0261-3077
743:Ownership
721:Bob James
671:In 1993,
667:1993–2000
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612:In 1963,
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590:1940–1970
498:Tex Avery
479:cornetist
319:from 1919
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108:JSTOR
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