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, ...

Vivian Carter (center) and her husband, Jimmy Bracken (far right), launched Vee Jay Records in 1953. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images In February 1963, Dick Biondi, a popular nighttime ...

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 ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...