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- Vee-Jay shut its doors in 1964.
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Jan 15, 2008 · Vee-Jay: The Definitive Collection is a four-disc set that came out this past summer. In 1953, Vivian Carter Bracken and her husband, James, borrowed $500 from a pawnbroker because they wanted to ...
Jan 15, 2008 · both came out on Vee-Jay followed by an album at the end of 1963. The Four Seasons and the Beatles both went to greener pastures, and Vee-Jay wound up in court, its day in the sun over. GROSS: Ed Ward lives in Berlin. He played music from "Vee-Jay: The Definitive Collection," a boxed set of recordings from the catalogue of Vee-Jay records.
Aug 21, 2007 · The Success and Undoing of Vee-Jay Records In 1953, Vivian and James Bracken borrowed $500 from a pawnbroker to start a record company. Thirteen years later, Vee-Jay Records became the country's ...
Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll.. The label was founded in Gary, Indiana, in 1953 by Vivian Carter and James C. Bracken, a husband-and-wife team who used their initials for the label's name.
Vee-Jay Records (as in “V” for Vivian and “J” for James) was a go. Despite its Gary roots, Vee-Jay operated, right from the beginning, as a Chicago business. This was largely because its original A&R man, Vivian’s brother Calvin Carter, was based in Chicago and equipped with connections. In 1953 alone, Calvin set up Vee-Jay’s first ...
Aug 21, 2007 · Vee-Jay was in the big league and decided to do what no other black-owned label had dared to do: It began signing white acts, among them Hoyt Axton and, under license, The Four Seasons. In 1963, British label EMI offered Vee-Jay a group that had been turned down by Capitol Records — The Beatles. Vee-Jay did not really want the Beatles, either.
Feb 7, 2013 · But ultimately the financial problems and the legal problems were just too much, and Vee-Jay was pretty much out of business by the end of 1964. Two years later Vee-Jay Records filed for...
