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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...
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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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    (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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  • 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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  • The Early Beatles (category Capitol Records compilation albums)
    Records, and their eighth album overall for the American market. All of the tracks on this album had previously been available on the Vee-Jay Records...
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  • Veejay (redirect from VeeJay)
    personality), a television announcer who introduces music videos Vee-Jay Records, an American record label VJ (disambiguation) Vijay (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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 Four Seasons (band) (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
    from Vee-Jay, the Seasons left Vee-Jay and moved to Philips Records, then a division of Mercury Records. In the 1965 settlement of the lawsuit, Vee-Jay retained...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • After Vee Jay was forced to close by financial problems, Calvin Carter worked at Liberty Records, running their soul subsidiary, Minit Records, for a...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Jimmy Reed (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
    recording contract with Chess Records, but signed with Vee-Jay Records through Brim's drummer, Albert King. At Vee-Jay, Reed began playing again with...
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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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  • 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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  • Rockingale Records The Jazz Alliance Records Vee-Jay Records Volt Records Concord Picante Hear Music Monterey Jazz Festival Records Peak Records Specialty...
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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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  • Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker song) (category Vee-Jay Records singles)
    has been recorded by numerous blues and other artists, including a 1965 North American hit by the Animals. Prior to recording for Vee-Jay Records, John Lee...
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    Ringo Starr (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
    with her because he was asleep in his office. Starr founded the record label Ring O' Records in 1975. The company signed eleven artists and released fifteen...
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  • The El Dorados (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
    signed them to her Vee-Jay Records label, making their first recordings in mid 1954. After a string of unsuccessful singles, they recorded "At My Front Door"...
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    Linda Martell (category Vee-Jay Records artists)
    (sometimes credited as "The Angelos") released several more singles on the Vee-Jay label, such as "Lonely Hours". David Browne of Rolling Stone called the...
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