okeh


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Noun1.okeh - an endorsementokeh - an endorsement; "they gave us the O.K. to go ahead"
imprimatur, sanction, countenance, endorsement, indorsement, warrant - formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement"
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Sony Music Masterworks comprises Masterworks, Sony Classical, Milan Records, OKeh, Portrait and Masterworks Broadway imprints.
It also disclosed the immediate suspension from duties of Messrs Chigozie Omeoha and Ernest Okeh, Head of Administration and Higher Executive Officer of the state's Staff Development Centre (SDC) respectively.
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But if one recognizes the title not as assertion but as an evocative borrowing of Sara Martin's 1923 record "The Original Blues" (Okeh 8062, 78 rpm), then one may read the book's title according to its functionality.
Hart's debut album, Big Mama's Door (OKeh Music), appeared in 1996 and prompted Taj Mahal to say "Boy got thunder in his hands, sure does" and the quote was prominently placed on the CD case.
Hart's debut album, Big Mama's Door (OKeh Music), appeared in 1996 and prompted Taj Mahal to say 'Boy got thunder in his hands, sure does' and the quote was prominently placed on the CD case.
Did it come from the Scottish 'och-aye', the Choctaw Indian 'okeh' or the Greek 'ol kala'?
Summary: As Jean-Louis Ekra's tenure as president and chair of the Africa Export-Import Bank drew to a close in September, he described the legacy that he leaves to his successor Dr Benedict Okeh Oramah
The free words of Futurism (see for instance Aldo Palazzeschi's poem E lasciatemi divertire in L'incendiario, 1913) may instead recall scat singing, the vocal use of non-morphemic syllables to imitate instruments (scat singing was first recorded by Louis Armstrong in his Heebies Jeebies, OKeh 1926).
By 1920 [Ralph] Peer had discovered that recordings of African-American singers sold well to African-Americans, so his company, Okeh, initiated a separate series [selling what came to be called] "race records." ...But in 1926 things changed rather dramatically when [an African-American talent scout] brought street singer Blind Lemon Jefferson to Chicago to record....