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2 unusual facts about Vee-Jay Records


Souvenir of Their Visit to America

Souvenir of Their Visit to America was the first of three Beatles EPs released in the United States and the only one released by Vee-Jay Records (catalogue number VJEP 1-903.) The EP featured four songs that had previously been released by Vee-Jay on the Introducing... The Beatles album.

The Harmonizing Four

As of the early 1950s, they signed with Philadelphia's Gotham Records, where they recorded some 40 songs before moving on in 1957 to Chicago's Vee-Jay Records, where they experienced their greatest popularity.


Akaflieg München Mü22

Design of this high performance glider with 30% laminar flow forward swept wings and vee tail started in 1953 with construction complete in late 1954 at the Akaflieg München workshops at Prien.

Bobby Vee

When Vee recorded "Come Back When You Grow Up" in 1967, he was joined by a band called "The Strangers".

In his autobiography, Chronicles, Volume One, Dylan makes special mention of Vee and shares significant and complimentary details about their friendship, both professional and personal.

Chartered Financial Analyst

The Society of Actuaries (SOA) granted the credit of Validation by Educational Experience (VEE)-Economics to the candidates who passed the CFA Level I exam.

Dave McMillan

In 1979 he placed 9th in the USAC Mini Indy Super Vee series 8th in the SCCA Formula Super Vee Championship.

Eiko Ikegami

She is associated in a Tokyo Foundation research project as a fellow of the Virtual Center for Advanced Studies in Institution (VCASI, pronounced “vee-kasi”).

Gerry Birrell

He began in Formula Vee late in 1967, competing at Ingliston where he led for much of the race before finishing second to Nick Brittan, the leading Formula Vee driver of the time.

Golden Hits of the Four Seasons

Golden Hits of The Four Seasons is an LP album by The Four Seasons, released by Vee-Jay Records under catalog number LP-1065 as a monophonic recording in 1963, and later in stereo under catalog number SR-1065 the same year.

Hickman sea sled

The Hickman Sea Sled is an inverted vee planing hull invented by Albert Hickman.

Hy-Vee

the Iowa–Nebraska football rivalry is officially branded as the Hy-Vee Heroes Game (since 2011)

I Gotta Be Me

I Gotta Be Me was an album that explored Johnny J's lyrical skills and abilities as well as his experiences in life, love, sex, relationships, and music, and was also the first appearance of the gangsta-themed female Hip-Hop/R&B quartet Y?N-Vee, who soon after recorded with Johnny J's friend 2Pac and his affiliate group, Thug Life, and released their one and only album for PMP Records, the same label that launched the career of R&B star Montell Jordan a year later.

KCOG

This show recently picked up a large sponsorship from Centerville, Iowa's local Hy-Vee and will expand to a two-hour show Wednesday nights, starting October 20, 2010.

Median algebra

In a Boolean algebra, or more generally a distributive lattice, the median function \langle x,y,z \rangle = (x \vee

Merchant Customer Exchange

The company is led by merchants such as 7-Eleven, Inc.; Alon Brands; Best Buy Co., Inc.; CVS/pharmacy; Darden Restaurants; HMSHost; Hy-Vee, Inc.; Lowe's; Michaels Stores, Inc.; Publix Super Markets, Inc.; Sears Holdings; Shell Oil Products US; Sunoco, Inc.; Target Corp. and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The initial retailers that are part of the new company account for about $1 trillion in annual sales.

More Than I Can Say

After Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash in February 1959, a then-teenaged Vee was one of a group of local musicians recruited to play at the next leg of a scheduled concert in Fargo, North Dakota.

Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships

Other series supported are the Kerrick Sports Sedan Series, Kumho Tyres V8 Touring Car Series, Australian Superkart Championship, Formula Vee Series and Aussie Racing Cars.

Ted Prappas

He started racing in Super Vee in 1983, in a car bought for him by James Stewart, who had previously hired his mother as his business agent.

Tesco Vee

Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he is a former elementary school teacher and the founding member, and front man, of punk bands The Meatmen, Tesco Vee's Hate Police, Blight, and Dutch Hercules.

The Four Seasons Greetings

The Four Seasons Greetings was the second LP album by The Four Seasons, released by Vee-Jay Records under catalog number LP-1055 as a monophonic recording in 1962 and later in stereo under catalog number SR-1055 the same year.

Vinyl Tap

Titled "Guitarology 101", the episode featured Bachman, McCann, Mick Dalla-Vee and Brent Knudsen talking about various aspects of guitars, including live performances of a number of classic rock and rhythm and blues songs.

Vivian Carter

During the 1950s and early 1960s Vee-Jay grew to become a major independent record label with acts including The Spaniels, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Gene Chandler, Jerry Butler, The Four Seasons and, for a time, The Beatles.

Y?N-Vee

The group's first recording was a posse cut for Johnny "J"'s one and only album, I Gotta Be Me and followed that by recording with 2Pac and his affiliate group called Thug Life (who were close people with Johnny "J".


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