Johnny Ace - Memorial Album
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Artist: Johnny AceEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- Pledging My Love
- Don't You Know
- Never Let Me Go
- So Lonely
- I'm Crazy Baby
- My Song
- Saving My Love For You
- The Clock
- How Can You Be So Mean
- Still Love You So
- Cross My Heart
- Anymore
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Free Music Review: Johnny Ace, sound-track for a time in history...
Hit: 5 Stars
The life of Johnny Ace was woefully too short, and such a tragic end. But his music lives on. Growing up in England in the 1960s it seemed all the people fresh off the planes and boats from the Caribbean bought themselves a copy of the Johnny Ace album. Whenever I hear Johnny Ace, I think back to the style and the swagger of the grown-ups back then; smoke filled rooms at the end of the work week at someone's house to chill and relax, regardless of children like me running around. The black men in their tweed suits and fedoras, the women in their stilettos and flared skirts. Cold foggy nights, card games, lots of talk... and the timeless sound of Johnny Ace wending its way through a time when there was a lot of struggle, hardship and personal tragedy. I've returned to Johnny Ace time and again over the years and each time he still sounds fresh and still serves as a soundtrack of my thoughts of times passed, steeped in memories both bitter and sweet.
Memorial Album Poster
Johnny Ace's greatest hit, the dirge-like blues ballad "Pledging My Love," will forever be entwined with the shocking story of his death during a game of Russian roulette in Houston on Christmas Eve, 1954. The opening track on Duke's Memorial Album, it sounds--with its stark beat, chiming vibes, and Western-saloon piano--as if it had been sung by a ghost. An original member of Memphis's Beale Streeters, piano man Ace could also do rollicking R&B ("Don't You Know"), but Memorial Album is top-heavy with all things slow and mournful: "The Clock" and "Never Let Me Go" were essentially prototypes for the posthumously-released "Pledging My Love," and the lugubrious "Anymore" was its identical follow-up. --Barney HoskynsBlues Music CDs
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