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   Location. Chicago, Illinois. 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. [1]

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2. www.npr.org › 2007/08/21 › 13774728The Success and Undoing of Vee-Jay Records : NPR

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   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 ...

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   Did Vee-Jay have a doo-wop record?

   • Vee-Jay was also home to one of the last great doo-wop records, 1961's "Duke of Earl," by Gene Chandler. By then, Vee-Jay was one of America's top labels, with a strong jazz catalog, some top gospel groups, and Jerry Butler, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker and Betty Everett cranking out hit after hit.

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   When did Vee-Jay start releasing records?

   • In 1960 Vee-Jay began issuing jazz records with separate catalog numbers as the LP/SR 3000 Series of 12 inch LPs with a catalog prefix of LP for mono releases and SR for stereo.

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   Is Exodus records a subsidiary of Vee-Jay?

   • Exodus Records was also a subsidiary of Vee-Jay, focusing largely on gospel music releases (such as early Billy Preston recordings) as well as being the label for some reissues of blues and jazz records. The Vee-Jay LP/SR 1000 Series of 12 inch LPs were released between 1958 and 1963 with a catalog prefix of LP for mono releases and SR for stereo.

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   How did Calvin Carter start Vee-Jay?

   • Calvin Carter set up Vee-Jay's first rehearsal space in a garage at 47th Street and King Drive in Chicago in 1953, then discovered and signed Jimmy Reed. Carter also established a regular studio use arrangement with Universal Recording Corporation, one of the largest independent recording studios in the U.S.

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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 ...

5. www.wyso.org › 2007/08/21 › the-success-and-undoingThe Success and Undoing of Vee-Jay Records | WYSO

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   Aug 21, 2007 · Reed was Vee-Jay's first star and helped the label take on local blues giant Chess Records. A year later, Vee-Jay released "Uncloudy Day" by the Staple Singers, with a 12-year-old Mavis on lead vocals. The Staples went on to international fame with Stax Records. Vee-Jay was doing well with regional hits but had yet to crack the mainstream.

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   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.

7. slate.com › culture › 2013The Beatles and Vee-Jay Records: How it took a black-owned ...

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   Jan 10, 2013 · Vee-Jay records was founded by husband-and-wife team Vivian Carter and James Bracken in 1953—taking the label’s name from their first initials—with $500 they borrowed from a pawnbroker.

8. www.ideastream.org › 2008/01/15 › the-rise-and-fallThe Rise and Fall of Vee-Jay Records | Ideastream Public Media

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   Jan 15, 2008 · It's not often that you hear of a record company being destroyed by success, but that was the fate of one of America's most prominent soul labels, Vee-Jay Records. They recorded John Lee Hooker, the Four Seasons and Betty Everett, but the music has been unavailable for decades. A new box set ends the wait.