Mike Markel was first recorded on victor-but only four titles of which only two were issued and he had an enduring
contract with the Okeh record company that extended almost the length of his career, aside from a few Brunswick, Columbia,
Gennett and Edison records. Some of the Okeh sides were issued on Canadiuan Apex. It was only after November of 1927 that
he recorded for the Banner family of labels, although many of the Okehs were also issued on Canadian Apex
Markel's Orchestra personnel: Mike Markel-p-dir/Hymie Farberman-Marty Berger-t/ Fred Shilling-Ray Stilwell-tb/ Phil Cole-
cl-ss-as//Loren McMurray-as/bsx/Eddie Davis-vn/ Frank Gravito-bj/ bb/d/ Al Bernard-Vaughn De Leath-Arthur Hall-Billy
Jones-Irving Kaufman-Harold "Scrappy" Lambert-Les Reis(as Russell Douglas)-Johnny Marvin-Leroy Montesanto-Frank Munn-Ray
Stilwell+tb-v I won't bore you with too many technical details, but when Okeh joined forces with Columbia,
the recording speed changed from 78 rpm to 75 rpm. The reason for that was to do with the protocol for the customer
setting the speed of their Graphophone(the Columbia trademark name) The process involved setting the speed to 80 rpm with
the heavy tone arm remaining off of the record. The adjustment was to have 20 revolutions of the record to coincide with a
second hand of a watch encompassing fifteen seconds - i.e. eighty rpm. However, once the tone arm was placed on the record,
it would slow it down to seventy-five rpm. I have confirmed this with a classical piano piece played by Myra Hess which was
in the correct key when played at 75 rpm. Victor records previous to June of 1928 are fairly consistantly recorded at 76.6
rpm. Aside from having vocals sounding wrong, the tempi would sound rushed when played at 78 rpm. Around 1923, tempos were
slightly slower than 1925, and had more of a feeling of syncopation. A case in point was the 1923 recording of Charleston
by Louis Katzman
for Vocalion, which gave more space for the rhyhmic feeling of the song, while Whiteman's version was sped up to the point
that there wasn't time to give the same rhythmic feeling of the earlier rendition.~ Mickey Clark
Glantz + Friends #19 - Mike Markel's Orchestra Recorded 1917 - 1928 CD358S
SWEET EMALINA,MY GAL VIC 18450 11/14/17 20980 CREAMER-LAYTON 2:51
THE SNEAK APX 4558 06/21/22 S-70712 BROWN 3:34
NOBODY LIED OK 4648 06/26/22 S-70722-C WEBER 3:35
THRU THE NIGHT APX 4026 07/01/22 70921 LOGAN 3:01
BLUE APX 4026 09/08/22 70826 CLARK-HANDMAN-LESLIE 3:10
JUST AS LONG AS YOU HAVE ME APX 4006 10/01/22 S-70885 VON TILZER 3:06
ANNABELLE OK 4902 06/01/23 S-71623 BROWN-HENDERSON 3:01
FIRST LAST AND ALWAYS CAP 4278 07/01/23 4908 ALTER 3:13
WHAT COULD BE SWEETER? PAR E5192 10/01/23 71816=B KAHN-PANICO-JONES 3:22
TOODLES CAP 4278 10/01/24 72886 RUBY-SPENCER 2:47
DON'T BOTHER ME COL 385-D 05/01/25 140575 RUPP-MUNN 3:21
HELLO,ALOHA,HOW ARE YOU? IRVING KAUFMAN? DUET BR 3218NC 06/07/26 19486 GILBERT-BAER 3:05
HI HO THE MERRIO IRVING KAUFMAN? DUET BR 3218NC 06/07/26 19489 BROWN-DAVIS-CONRAD 3:08
FOR MY SWEETHEART FRANK MUNN BR 3263 07/14/26 19756 KAHN-DONALDSON 3:06
PRECIOUS FRANK MUNN BR 3263 07/14/26 19759 EGAN-WHITING-PASTERNACKI 3:11
DOLL DANCE OK 40805 04/06/27 80597 BROWN 3:19
RED LIPS KISS MY BLUES AWAY LES REIS OK 40805 04/06/27 80598B BRYAN-MONACO-WENDLING 3:21
UNDER THE MOON LES REIS PAR A2370 05/17/27 81091B LYN-WHEELER-SNYDER 3:08
GIVE ME A NIGHT IN JUNE VAUGHN DE LEATH OK 40884 08/22/27 81259 FRIEND 3:06
IT WAS ONLY A SUN SHOWER VAUGHN DE LEATH OK 40884 08/22/27 81260 KAHAL-WHEELER-SNYDER 3:14
MY LADY LES REIS OK 40920 10/20/27 81557 CRUMIT 3:18
MANHATTAN MARY LES REIS OK 40920 10/20/27 81558 DE SYLVA-BROWN-HENDERSON 3:21
SPEEDY BOY IRVING KAUFMAN GEN 10338 03/16/28 7854 KLAGES-GREER 3:06
OLD SHOES IRVING KAUFMAN BAN 7080 03/16/28 7860 BASKETTE 2:54
CROSS ROADS IRVING KAUFMAN BAN 6244 12/12/28 8396-3 AXT-MENDOZA-KLAGES 3:01 Available Options:
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