[78-L] Early 20s Okeh sound

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Mon Nov 24 17:03:51 PST 2008


I was referring to different Okeh studios and Okeh engineers for the Oliver 
records vs.  Green Brothers or other early artists.

Taylor


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> That is true!!  Due to different studios and engineers?
>
> Taylor
>
>
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> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>> And yet the OKeh King Olivers sound WORSE than his Gennetts.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>> A lot of early Okehs have an almost magic sound...my 1920 record of the
>>> Green Brothers Orch. playing "Palesteena" is not only a fine record, 
>>> but
>>> it
>>> has a "live" sound which is in many ways superior to most early
>>> electrics,
>>> and many later ones as well,  as David notes.
>>>
>>> Taylor B
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>
>>>
>>>> Chris Zwarg wrote:
>>>>> In the US, Okeh probably had the best acoustic sound on average
>>>> No question. Yesterday at the CAPS meeting in Toronto, Jack Litchfield
>>>> was
>>>> playing Sophie Tucker recordings and I'd forgotten how incredible the
>>>> ones
>>>> from
>>>> 1922 sounded..more like electrical than many later 20s records.
>>>>  dl
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