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Vee-Jay Records. Founded in Gary, Indiana by husband-and-wife team Vivian Carter and James C. Bracken ("V" and "J"), VEE-JAY quickly became a top indie label that regularly turned out superb R&B, urban blues, (and later) jazz, folk and gospel recordings. Today, the historic label continues to issue retrospectives by Little Richard, John Lee ...
The Impressions were an American music group originally formed in 1958. Their repertoire includes gospel, R&B, doo-wop, and soul.. The group was founded as the Roosters by Chattanooga, Tennessee natives Sam Gooden, Richard Brooks and Arthur Brooks, who moved to Chicago and added Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield to their line-up to become Jerry Butler & the Impressions.
Vee-Jay was the first large independent record company to be owned by blacks and was the most successful black owned record company before Motown. Vee Jay contributed a tremendous legacy of blues, rhythm and blues, doowop, jazz, soul, pop and rock n' roll. James Bracken was born in Oklahoma on May 23, 1909; grew up in Kansas City, Kansas; and ...
Compilation albums. 1958 Little Richard (with Buck Ram and his Rock 'n Ram Orchestra) 1960: Little Richard Sings: Clap Your Hands (Spinorama M119) 1963: Sings Spirituals. 1963: His Biggest Hits (Specialty SP-2111) 1964: Sings the Gospel. 1968: The Wild and Frantic Little Richard.
From Vee-Jay to Philips. Despite the band's success, Vee-Jay Records was in financial distress. The label had released several early Beatles singles in America. When the Beatles became hugely popular, Vee-Jay was swamped with orders, and they shipped more than two million Beatles records in a single month.
It comprised Pirkle Lee Moses Jr. (lead vocals), Louis Bradley and Arthur Basset (tenors), Jewel Jones (second tenor/baritone), James Maddox and Richard Nickens (both baritone/bass). [1] When Moses Jr. got out of the United States Air Force in 1954, they changed their name to The El Dorados. Vivian Carter heard them and signed them to her Vee ...
Many of his records were produced by Norrie Paramor. Ifield was also featured on Jolly What!, a 1964 compilation comprising eight of his tracks and four by the Beatles, which has been considered an attempt to cash in on Beatlemania. (Vee-Jay Records had acquired US distribution rights to the Beatles along with Ifield.) Despite changing trends ...
