Fact #97752
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Short story:
Capitol Records is granted an injunction in Chicago, Illinois, USA, to prevent Vee-Jay Records from distributing or marketing any more recordings by The Beatles. [Vee-Jay had been the first US company to release material by The Beatles, but the group later signed to Capitol].
Full article:
Calvin Carter (A + R man, Vee-Jay Records] : They were trying to get us on something really minor like failure to declare royalties on 500 records we shipped in 1963. But that was not true at all.
We put the album out, and EMI, through Capitol, sued us to cease and desist. They got an injunction against us seemingly every week. They would get an injunction against us on Monday, and we would get it off on Friday, then we'd press over the weekend and ship on Monday; we were smooth, we had everybody alerted, and we were pressing records all the time on the weekends.
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We put the album out, and EMI, through Capitol, sued us to cease and desist. They got an injunction against us seemingly every week. They would get an injunction against us on Monday, and we would get it off on Friday, then we'd press over the weekend and ship on Monday; we were smooth, we had everybody alerted, and we were pressing records all the time on the weekends.