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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.
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Feb 20, 2023 · Instead, it was tiny Vee-Jay Records, a Black-owned label from Chicago's South Side founded by Vivian Carter and Jimmy Bracken. The Beatles were already surging in popularity back in their native ...
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Jan 15, 2008 · Butler stayed on to become another Vee-Jay hit machine. Not that the label gave up on classic doo-wop, recording one of the great cult masterpieces of the genre.
Aug 21, 2007 · Thirteen years later, Vee-Jay Records became the country's biggest independent, black-owned record label, and for a time, it was bigger than Motown. Vee-Jay was even the Beatles' first American label.
Feb 23, 2022 · Anything she did turned [into] gold.” Vee Jay’s first release, the Spaniels’ “Baby It’s You,” debuted in 1953 at number ten on Billboard’s R&B chart. “Goodnite, Sweetheart ...
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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.
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.
