OKeh Historical Survey: Okeh Personnel
Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934, compiled by Ross Laird and Brian Rust.
The following is a very incomplete listing of prominent figures known from various contemporary sources to have held positions relating to the production of OKeh records during the period covered by this volume. In most cases few (if any) further details are known of the persons named, and the dates specified indicate only the period in which the source(s) in which they are named were published and the actual period of time during which they were involved in some way with OKeh records may be considerably longer than indicated.
Name | Position | Dates |
---|---|---|
Bloom, Rube | Studio accompanist | 1927 |
Brockman, P.C. | Atlanta office | 1925 |
Decker, Peter P. | Assistant Recording Engineer | 1919-1928 |
Fritsche, Allan | Vice-President & Sales Manager | 1926-1927 |
Griffen, Thos. E. | Record Pressing Plant Supervisor | 1918 |
Hager, Fred W. | Musical Director | 1918-1922 |
Heineman, Otto | President General Phono Corp. | 1915-1926 |
"" | President & General Manager OKeh Phono Corp. | 1926- |
Hibbard, Charles L. | Technical Director [ie. recording engineer) | 1918-1929 |
Jeffers, G.S. | General Sales Representative | 1925 |
Kramer, Charles | Record Pressing Plant Manager | 1918 |
Peer, Ralph S. | Director of Record Production | 1924-1925 |
"" | General Sales Manager | 1925-1926 |
Ring, Justin | Music Supervisor | 1921-1930 |
Rockwell, Tom G. | Recording Manager | 1927- |
Sanella, Andy | Studio musician | 1927- |
Sieber, J.A. | Advertising Manager | 1923- |
Stephens, Bob | “Harmonist’’ [sic] | 1927-1928 |
Taylor, Al | Assistant to engineers | 1927 |
Timm, William A. | Unknown position | 1921-1925 |
Timm, William A. | Manager Foreign Record Department | 1925-1927 |
Voglhut, Miguel | Vice-President American Odeon Corp. | 1921-1922 |
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Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934 . Compiled by Ross Laird and Brian Rust. Reprinted by permission.