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Record Row: Vee Jay Records- Cradle of R&B (1st American Label to Sign the Beatles)

VEEJAY RECORDS history is one of those Historical gems you will never read about in American history, and especially in American Music history. Why? Because it is the type of history that skews what is taught in our schools. This record label was Black owned and founded by a BLACK WOMAN....who happened to be the first American record label to sign one of the greatest pop groups in history. White historians of the Beatles hardly EVER mention that the first American record label they sign onto was with a BLACK OWNED record company, that a BLACK WOMAN founded...the VEEJAY RECORDS LABEL. Founded in Gary, Indiana, in 1953, by husband-and-wife team Vivian Carter and James C. Bracken ("V" and "J"), VEE-JAY quickly became a top indie label that regularly turned out superb R&B, urban blues, (and later) jazz, folk and gospel recordings. Vee-Jay was one of the first black-owned and female-owned (Vivian Carter) labels in America and also THE FIRST U.S RECORD COMPANY TO RELEASE RECORDINGS OF THE BEATLES. The catalog includes over 5,000 master recordings from renowned artists such as Little Richard, John Lee Hooker, Betty Everett, Jimmy Reed, Jerry Butler, The Staple Singers, Gene Chandler, and The Dells, among many others. Classic Vee- Jay tracks include Chandler's early '60s #1 hit "Duke of Earl," John Lee Hooker's iconic "Boom Boom," The Staples Singers' "Uncloudy Day," (with a 12-year old Mavis on lead vocal), Jimmy Reed's inimitable "High and Lonesome" and Betty Everett's "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)," to name just a few. Vee-Jay had significant success with pop/rock and roll acts, such as the Four Seasons (their first non-black act) and the above mentioned, Beatles. Vee-Jay acquired the rights to some of the early recordings by the Beatles through a licensing deal with EMI, as the American affiliate Capitol Records was initially uninterested in the group. The main attraction at the time, however, was another EMI performer, Frank Ifield. Calvin Carter later said, "There was a number one record over in England at the time—It was 'I Remember You' by Frank Ifield. We took the record, and as a throw in, they had a group and asked us if we would take them, too. The group turned out to be the Beatles and we got a five-year contract on the Beatles as a pickup on the Frank Ifield contract." The company ventured into folk music with Hoyt Axton and New Wine Singers, and also picked up Little Richard who re-recorded his Specialty hits and recorded (1965) "I Don't Know What You've Got (But It's Got Me)", an R&B success, with Jimi Hendrix, Don Covay, Bernard Purdie, Ronny Miller, and Billy Preston (before Hendrix became successful on his own). Vee-Jay's jazz line accounted for a small portion of the company's releases, but recorded such artists as Eddie Harris, Wynton Kelly, Lee Morgan, and Wayne Shorter. The A&R for the label's jazz releases was Sid McCoy. The company also had a major gospel line, recording such acts as the Staple Singers, The Famous Boyer Brothers, the Argo Singers, Swan Silvertones, the Caravans, Dorothy Love Coates and the Gospel Harmonettes, and Maceo Woods. Vee-Jay even released comedy on LP, with records by Dick Gregory, and Them Poems, Mason Williams' early nightclub act (later known for 1968 instrumental, Classical Gas), recorded with a studio audience in 1964. VeeJay's glorious period was from 1953 (its founding) until 1966, when it filed for bankruptcy. But during that time, they made history that is not acknowledged today when talking about the American music of the 1950s and early 60s. https://www.madeinchicagomuseum.com/s... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vee-Jay... https://concord.com/labels/vee-jay-re... Link to the best History of Rock and Roll series ever: https://aubreylewis2.com/2023/01/11/r... This video is for educational purposes only. This video may contain copyrighted material. This material is being made available in an effort to advance understanding of historical, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. that constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go BEYOND ‘FAIR USE’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.