Clockwise from upper left: Vee-Jay artists the Four Seasons, Betty Everett, Dee Clark, and Jimmy Reed, and Vee-Jay owners James Bracken and Vivian Carter Credit: From the collection of Betty ...
A popular nighttime DJ in Chicago first played the Beatles in February 1963, spinning a single version of "Please Please Me" that wasn't released through EMI, Parlophone or Capitol Records. Instead, ...