[Ads-l] Antedating of "Okeh"

[Shapiro, Fred]

okeh (OED 1919)

1918 Talking Machine World 15 May

Otto Heineman, president of the Otto Heineman Phonograph Supply Co, New York, announced this week that the company is now ready to place on the market the Heineman record, which will be known as the "OkeH" record.  This name is derived from the original Indian spelling ot the term colloquially known as O. K., standing for "all right."

Fred Shapiro


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