BRACKEN, JAMES

BRACKEN, JAMES (JIM). Record producer (1909; 1972 in Chicago, Illinois). About 1953 he and Vivian Carter , whom he later married, and her brother Calvin Carter founded the Vee Jay Records, which became the largest black-owned record company in the world by the mid-1960s. They were formerly operators of a record shop in Gary, Indiana. Vivian Carter had been a disc jockey on radio station WWCA in Gary since 1948, and she continued to broadcast on one or another station in Chicago...