Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five play "Heebie Jeebies".
Despite what it says on the label, this is an acoustic recording. OKeh didn't start to make electrically recorded masters, using its TrueTone electrical process, until April 1926. The TrueTone process was inferior to the Western Electric system that Victor and Columbia used, and when Columbia purchased OKeh in October 1926, the TrueTone process was dropped.
Note that this is a later black label master pressing, but even the earlier red label pressings state "TrueTone" for this and other late acoustic recordings. According to some sources, the word "TrueTone" was deliberately applied by OKeh to both electrical and late acoustic recordings for a while, perhaps to try and confuse the public into buying acoustic records, and thus reduce stocks of records that might otherwise have remained unsold.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS HOT FIVE
Louis Armstrong - cornet, vocals / Kid Ory - trombone / Johnny Dodds - clarinet / Lil Armstrong - piano / Johnny St. Cyr - banjo
Chicago, February 26, 1926
9534-A…….Heebie Jeebies…….OKeh 8300
Louis Armstrong And His Hot Five play "Heebie Jeebies".
Despite what it says on the label, this is an acoustic recording. OKeh didn't start to make electrically recorded masters, using its TrueTone electrical process, until April 1926. The TrueTone process was inferior to the Western Electric system that Victor and Columbia used, and when Columbia purchased OKeh in October 1926, the TrueTone process was dropped.
Note that this is a later black label master pressing, but even the earlier red label pressings state "TrueTone" for this and other late acoustic recordings. According to some sources, the word "TrueTone" was deliberately applied by OKeh to both electrical and late acoustic recordings for a while, perhaps to try and confuse the public into buying acoustic records, and thus reduce stocks of records that might otherwise have remained unsold.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS HOT FIVE
Louis Armstrong - cornet, vocals / Kid Ory - trombone / Johnny Dodds - clarinet / Lil Armstrong - piano / Johnny St. Cyr - banjo
Chicago, February 26, 1926
9534-A…….Heebie Jeebies…….OKeh 8300
