The Beatles Records on Vee-Jay: Songs, Pictures & Stories of the Fabulous Beatles Records on Vee-Jay

Original Series

by Bruce Spizer

Foreword by Perry Cox. Complete story of the Beatles records on Vee-Jay - how creative marketing turned 16 Beatles songs into a comprehensive catalog of multiple 45, EP, and album releases that, taken together, are worth more today than all other American Beatles records combined. DID YOU KNOW... Capitol Records initially passed on the Beatles 4 times? When the Beatles first two US singles were released by Vee-Jay Records in 1963, they were virtually ignored? When Vee-Jay released Please Please Me as the first Beatles single in the US, the group's name was misspelled as "The BEATLES"? Learn all this and much more in Songs, Pictures and Stories of the fabulous Beatles Records on Vee-Jay . This entertaining and informative book compiles the history and images of the most misunderstood and colorful period of the Beatles American records. Hundreds of color pictures, including all known variations of album covers, picture sleeves and record labels, Billboard and Cash Box trade ads, royalty statements and checks issued to Capitol Records, promotional mailers, catalogs, posters and other cool stuff! Contributors include Dave Askamit, Jason Anjoorian, Dale Aronson, Jeff Augsburger, Bob Avellino, Deborah Bonhart, Frank Caiazzo, Mike Calahan, Lou Calitri, Betty Chiapetta, Ken Clee, Sherman Cohen, Thomas Cook, Perry Cox, Andy Davis, Vance DeGeneres, Ricki Filiar, Chris Fonvielle, Rob Friedman, Mark Galloway, John Guarnieri, Jim Hansen, Gary Hein, Dan Hildebrand, Lin Holland, Pete Howard, Phillip Hunott, Matt Hurwitz, Todd Jackson, Gary Johnson, Christopher Kennel, Mark Lewisohn, Carol Luna, Phillip Marks, Susan McDaniel, Mitch McGeary, Tim Neely, Bob Nichols, Jerry Osborne, Martin Paul, Stanley Penenka, Casey Piotrowski, Marina Poch, Debra Poe Cary Pollack, Simon Postbrief, Shirley Rambeau, Rick Randell, Chris Ridges, Kate Riley, Wayne Rogers, Tom Schalk, David Schwartz, Jan Seltzer, Barry Spizer, Julie Stein, John Tefteller, Rebecca Tran, Enrico Venuti, Michael White, Craig Winston, Gordon Wrubel, Cliff Yamasaki, Robert W. York.

Genres: Music

242 pages, Hardcover

First published April 27, 1998

About the author

Bruce Spizer is an American tax attorney and music historian.
Bruce Spizer is a life-long native of New Orleans and a first generation Beatles fan. He is a well-known Beatles author/historian and is considered one of the world's leading experts on the Beatles. A "taxman" by day, Bruce is a Board Certified Tax Attorney and CPA. A "paperback writer" by night, Bruce is the author of ten critically acclaimed books on the Beatles, including "The Beatles Are Coming! The Birth of Beatlemania in America," "The Beatles and Sgt. Pepper: A Fans' Perspective," "The Beatles White Album and the Launch pf Apple" and "Beatles For Sale on Parlophone Records," which covers all of the Beatles records issued in the U.K. from 1962 - 1970. His articles have appeared in American History, Beatlefan, Goldmine and Parade. He has appeared on ABC's Good Morning America and Nightline, CBS's The Early Show, Fox National News, CNN, and morning shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Nashville, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. He is a frequent guest on local, national and international radio programs, including those broadcast by NPR, ABC and the BBC. Bruce has been a guest speaker at numerous Beatles conventions in the U.S. and U.K. and at the Grammy Museum, the Paley Center for Media, the Newseum, the American Film Institute, New York's Lincoln Center and the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame & Museum in Cleveland. He wrote the questions and answers for the Beatles edition of Trivial Pursuit. Bruce serves as a consultant for Universal Music Group, Capitol Records and Apple Corps, Ltd. on Beatles projects. His credits on Beatles releases include the multi-million selling CD "1," the CD box set "The Capitol Albums, Vol. 2" (wrote the essay), "The U.S. Albums" box set, the Ron Howard film "Eight Days A Week" and the deluxe edition of the 50th Anniversary release of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."