Vee Jay Records (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Vee-Jay Records [1964], Los Angeles, 1964
- Softcover
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Stapled wraps. Condition: Near Fine. [nice and clean, with just a few horizontal stress lines along the spine; rubber-stamped name of Disc-O-Rama (York PA) on first page and inside rear cover; some tiny annotations in the Singles listing, which are actually helpful in dating some of the recordings, and the catalog itself]. (B&W…photographs, facsimiles) 32-page (including covers) photo-illustrated catalog listing all records (LPs and singles) then being distributed by Vee-Jay Records. The catalog is divided into the following sections: Popular Albums; Jazz Albums; Official World's Fair Recordings; Tollie & Interphon [two short-lived Vee-Jay subsidiary labels]; Gospel & Spiritual; Oldies But Goodies Albums; Singles. Most of the illustrations are small black-and-white photos of record album covers, but there is a two-page photo spread covering the first two inside pages that's headed "Some of the Great Talent That is on Vee-Jay," that features shots of twenty groups and individuals, including The Beatles, The Four Seasons, Dick Gregory, Hoyt Axton, and John Lee Hooker. The catalog is probably most notable as the label's almost-last hurrah for The Beatles: they are prominently featured in the aforementioned photo spread, and their American debut album, "Introducing the Beatles" (catalog no. 1062/S1062) is included on page 5. (Released on January 10, 1964, it beat Capitol Records' "Meet the Beatles" to the marketplace by ten days -- but because Capitol controlled the publishing rights to two of the songs on the album, Vee-Jay was almost immediately hit with a restraining order that forced them to quickly issue a second version, replacing those two songs with two others. (The track listing in this catalog is for the first version, containing the two disputed songs, "Love Me Do" and "P.S. I Love You.") The two albums went head-to-head on the record sales charts for a couple of months, with "Meet the Beatles" consistently claiming the top spot and the Vee-Jay release never climbing higher than No. 2. All this is of course exhaustively documented in the Beatles literature, and in capsule form on various Wikipedia pages, for those who wish to pursue further reading.).
