| Vee-Jay: Definitive Collection |  | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Shout Factory
Category: Music
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Seller: vhsales
Sales Rank: 45,936
Format: Box set
Language: English (Unknown)
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 6.2 x 1.5
UPC: 826663104851
EAN: 0826663104851
ASIN: B000TJ6AQ0
Release Date: August 21, 2007
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Disc 1
| • | Jimmy Reed And His Trio - High And Lonesome | | • | The Spaniels - Baby, It's You | | • | The Spaniels - Goodnite Sweetheart, Goodnite | | • | Floyd Jones And Band - Ain't Times Hard | | • | Jimmy Reed And His Trio - You Don't Have To Go | | • | L.C. Mckinley - Blue Evening | | • | Billy Boy Arnold - I Wish You Would | | • | The El Dorados - At My Front Door | | • | Morris Pejoe - Hurt My Feelings | | • | Eddie Taylor - Bad Boy | | • | The Highway QC's - Somewhere To Lay My Head | | • | Jay McShann's Orchestra, Vocalist Priscilla Bowman -Hands Off | | • | The Five Echoes - Fool's Prayer | | • | Earl Phillips - Oop De Oop | | • | The El Dorados With Al Smith's Orchestra -I'll Be Forever Loving You | | • | Jimmy Reed - Ain't That Lovin' You Baby | | • | Al Smith's Combo - Fooling Around Slowly | | • | The Magnificents - Up On The Mountain | | • | Eddie Taylor - Big Town Playboy | | • | Camille Howard - Rock `N Roll Mama | | • | The Dells - Oh What A Nite |
Disc 2
| • | John Lee Hooker - Dimples | | • | Pee Wee Crayton - The Telephone Is Ringing | | • | Snooky Pryor - Judgment Day | | • | The Staple Singers - Uncloudy Day | | • | Sonny Til's Orioles - For All We Know | | • | The Delegates - Mother's Son | | • | Billy Emerson - The Pleasure's All Mine | | • | Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do | | • | The Harmonizing Four - Farther Along | | • | Gene Allison - You Can Make It If You Try | | • | Elmore James - It Hurts Me Too | | • | Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - The Twist | | • | Priscilla Bowman With The Spaniels -A Rockin' Good Way | | • | Lee Diamond And The Upsetters - Hattie Malatti | | • | Bobby Parker - Blues Get Off My Shoulder | | • | Jerry Butler & The Impressions - For Your Precious Love | | • | Leonard Carbo - Pigtails And Blue Jeans | | • | John Lee Hooker - I Love You Honey | | • | The Original 5 Blind Boys Of Mississippi -Leave You In The Hands Of The Lord | | • | Dee Clark - Nobody But You | | • | Sheriff & The Ravels - Shombalor | | • | Harold Burrage - Crying For My Baby |
Disc 3
| • | The Swan Silvertones - Mary Don't You Weep | | • | Memphis Slim - Steppin' Out | | • | Rosco Gordon - Just A Little Bit | | • | Jimmy Reed Baby - What You Want Me To Do | | • | Donnie Elbert - Will You Ever Be Mine | | • | The Staple Singers - Will The Circle Be Unbroken | | • | Wade Flemons - Easy Lovin' | | • | John Lee Hooker - No Shoes | | • | J.B. Lenoir - Oh Baby | | • | Jerry Butler - He Will Break Your Heart | | • | Eddie Harris - Exodus | | • | Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man | | • | Dee Clark - Raindrops | | • | The Pips With Gladys Knight - Every Beat Of My Heart | | • | The Sallie Martin Singers - Old Ship Of Zion | | • | Jimmy Reed - Bright Lights, Big City | | • | The Dukays - Nite Owl | | • | Gene Chandler - Duke Of Earl | | • | The Moonglows - Real Gone Mama | | • | The "5" Royales - Help Me Somebody | | • | John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom |
Disc 4
| • | Christine Kittrell - I'm A Woman | | • | Jerry Butler - Make It Easy On Yourself | | • | The Four Seasons - Sherry | | • | Gene Chandler - Rainbow | | • | The Pyramids - Shakin' Fit | | • | Birdlegs & Pauline And Their Versatility Birds - Spring | | • | Aki Aleong & The Nobles - Body Surf | | • | Betty Everett - You're No Good | | • | The Original Blind Boys Of Alabama -I Can See Everybody's Mother | | • | Betty Everett - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) | | • | Jimmy Hughes - Steal Away | | • | The Honeycombs - Have I The Right | | • | Jerry Butler & Betty Everett - Let It Be Me | | • | Hoyt Axton - Bring Your Lovin' | | • | Betty Everett - Getting Mighty Crowded | | • | The Caravans - Walk Around Heaven All Day | | • | Gloria Jones - Tainted Love | | • | Billy Preston - Billy's Bag | | • | The Dells - Stay In My Corner | | • | Fred Hughes - Oo Wee Baby, I Love You | | • | Joe Simon - Let's Do It Over | | • | Little Richard - I Don't Know What You've Got But It's Got Me |
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Album Description
86-track boxed set contains the cream of the Vee-Jay label's run, from 1953 to 1966, including hits by Jimmy Reed,Jerry Butler & The Impressions, John Lee Hooker, The Four Seasons,Little Richard, The Staple Singers, The Dells, Betty Everett, The Swan Silvertones, Dee Clark, The El Dorados, Gene Chandler, The Spaniels, and many others, as well as amazing obscurities by less-well-known artists. Vee-Jay Records was the first nationally successful African-American owned record company. At one point it was bigger than even such powerhouses as Motown Records and Chess Records. Though Vee-Jay is now best known as the first American label to release records by The Beatles, it is classic singles like The Spaniels' "Goodnite Sweetheart, Goodnite," John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom," Jimmy Reed's "Bright Lights, Big City," Betty Everett's "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)," Jerry Butler's "Make It Easy On Yourself," The Four Seasons' "Sherry," Gene Chandler's "Duke Of Earl," and Little Richard's "I Don't Know What You've Got But It's Got Me" that remain the label's enduring legacy. Contains 86 tracks spread across four CDs, along with a beautifully designed 40-page booklet packed with photos and featuring two essays: a historical overview and a detailed track-by-track commentary.
Amazon.com
For a label that lasted only 13 years and closed in 1966, Vee-Jay Records left a large legacy, though one that is largely underrecognized. This four-disc retrospective provides a corrective, documenting the range and richness of the catalog from the Chicago rival to Chess Records. Many know Vee-Jay as the first American label to license the Beatles (not included here) and to introduce the Four Seasons ("Sherry" is). But the depth of this set lies in the signature classics by artists including bluesmen John Lee Hooker and Jimmy Reed, gospel greats the Staple Singers and Swan Silvertones, doo-wop groups such as the Spaniels and Sonny Til's Orioles, and soul singers Jerry Butler and Gene Chandler. The well-known artistry merely scratches the surface of the sets' delights, as those familiar with such hits as Linda Ronstadt's "You're No Good" and Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" will finds revelation in the Vee-Jay originals (by Betty Everett and Gloria Jones, respectively). An auspicious launch to what promises to be an ambitious reissue program. --Don McLeese
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