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...
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Vivian Carter (section Cofounder of Vee-Jay Records)
(March 25, 1921 – June 12, 1989) was an American record company executive who was a founder of Vee-Jay Records with her future husband, Jimmy Bracken. Carter...
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Introducing... The Beatles (category Vee-Jay Records albums)
scheduled for a July 1963 release, the LP came out on 10 January 1964, on Vee-Jay Records, ten days before Capitol's Meet the Beatles! The latter album, however...
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In Records was a record label started in 1964 and distributed by Vee-Jay Records. List of record labels v t e...
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The Early Beatles (category Capitol Records compilation albums)
Capitol Records, and their eighth album overall for the American market. All eleven tracks on this album were previously issued on the Vee-Jay Records release...
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Falcon Records (Massachusetts), a record label from Bentley University Falcon Records, a subsidiary of Vee-Jay records renamed Abner Records This disambiguation...
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Tollie Records was a record label formed in February 1964, as a subsidiary label of Vee-Jay Records. It closed in May 1965. The label distributed two of...
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States label distributed by Vee-Jay Records This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Champion Records. If an internal link led you...
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Liverpool record store, NEMS, an estimated $100 million in licensing fees. After the Beatles' success in 1964, Vee-Jay Records and Swan Records took advantage...
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Interphon Records was a sub-label from Vee-Jay Records to distribute its European-leased masters in the US. It was active from 1964 until 1965. The U.S...
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Oldies-33 (category Defunct record labels of the United States)
Oldies-33 was a subsidiary of Vee-Jay Records. It was started in 1963 to distribute their old 33rpm records. List of record labels v t e...
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Eddie Harris (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
returning to Chicago where he signed a contract with Vee Jay Records. His first album for Vee Jay, Exodus to Jazz, included his own jazz arrangement of...
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Music of Chicago (section Vee-Jay Records)
including Vee-Jay, Chess Records, OKeh, ABC-Paramount, Brunswick, and Curtom, established a major presence in R&B/soul music. Vee-Jay Records is an American...
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Oldies-45 (category Defunct record labels of the United States)
Oldies-45 was a sub-label of Vee-Jay Records. It was started in 1963 to distribute their old 45 rpm records. Some Beatles singles were reissued briefly...
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Hear the Beatles Tell All (category Vee-Jay Records albums)
Live in Person Interviews Recorded During Their Latest American Tour) is an album released in the United States by Vee-Jay Records in November 1964. One side...
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Ewart Abner (section Vee-Jay Records)
Abner became part owner and general manager of Vee-Jay Records. He was appointed president of Vee-Jay in 1961 and with the addition of artists such as...
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The Staple Singers (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
During their early career, they recorded in an acoustic gospel-folk style with various labels: United Records, Vee-Jay Records (their "Uncloudy Day" and "Will...
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early 1960s, recording for the Exclusive, Aladdin, Imperial, Federal, Vee-Jay, and Swingin' labels. But despite a hit R&B ballad, "There's Something...
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The Beatles (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
licence that Vee-Jay had signed with EMI was voided. A new licence was granted to the Swan label for the single "She Loves You". The record received some...
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The Four Seasons (band) (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
manager for Vee-Jay Records (not the founder of Dot Records) who, in turn, suggested the release of "Sherry" to the decision-makers at Vee-Jay. "Sherry"...
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Shelley Fabares (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
Big Hits Colpix Records (1989) The Best of Shelley Fabares Rhino Records R2 71651—1994 Shelley Fabares Johnny Angel Collectables Records No. 9931 July 2005...
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first as the Jay McShann Orchestra on August 9, 1940. The band played both swing and blues numbers, but played blues on most of its records; its most popular...
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Original Blues Classics/Riverside Records. 1991. Back cover. OBCCD-542-2/RLP-12-838. Travelin' (Album notes). Vee-Jay Records. 1960. Back cover. VJLP 1023...
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Please Please Me (song) (category Vee-Jay Records singles)
Bruce (1998). Songs, Pictures and Stories of the Fabulous Beatles Records on Vee-Jay. New Orleans: 498 Productions. ISBN 0-9662649-0-8. Spizer, Bruce (2004)...
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Chicago soul (section Vee-Jay)
most notably Vee-Jay, Constellation Records, Chess Records, Mercury Records, OKeh, ABC-Paramount, One-derful, Brunswick and its Dakar Records subsidiary...
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The "5" Royales (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
on the posthumous Catch That Teardrop album - as well as Vee-Jay, ABC-Paramount, Smash Records and the Todd label. The "5" Royales broke up in 1965, though...
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George Harrison (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
for A&M Records, and later Dark Horse Records. As Dark Horse was a subsidiary of A&M, the couple had first met over the phone working on record company...
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album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in Texas in 1962 and released on the Vee-Jay label. The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings wrote:...
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From Me to You (category Vee-Jay Records singles)
Me" in the United States, Vee-Jay Records signed a licensing agreement giving it the right of first refusal on Beatles records for five years. Despite the...
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