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Jimmy Bracken

CTL-P-0312 · Person

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Vee-Jay Records co-founder

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Vee-Jay Records co-founder

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In 1953 James C. Bracken and Vivian Carter started Vee-Jay Records, the Chicago-based Black-owned label, naming it from their first initials (Indiana Public Media, tier 3).

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