Vee-Jay Records is perhaps best known for what it couldn't pull off. The label was founded in Gary, Indiana, in 1953 by Vivian Carter and James C. Bracken, a husband-and-wife team whose initials were used for the label's name. It was one of the first black-owned record companies and dominated the R&B market in the late 1950s. It also wound up record…
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