Ace Records
Ace Records was a record label that was started in August 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi, by Johnny Vincent, with Teem Records as its budget subsidiary.
Ace Records
- Name
- Ace Records
- Founded
- 1955
- Founder
- Johnny Vincent
- Headquarters
- United States
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Ace Records was a record label that was started in August 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi, by Johnny Vincent, with Teem Records as its budget subsidiary.
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• Name — Ace Records • Founded — 1955 • Founder — Johnny Vincent • Parent — Demon Music Group • Defunct — 1997
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History
• Illustration — Ace Record's marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail Ace also had the Vin label. Its records were distributed independently until 1962 when a distribution arrangement was set up with Vee-Jay Records. Ace Records stopped when Vee-Jay ran out of funds and went out of business. The label was relaunched in 1971 and sold in 1997 to the Demon Music Group in the UK. Ace recorded such artists as Earl King, Frankie Ford, Jimmy Clanton, Huey "Piano" Smith, Joe Tex, Scotty McKay, and Bobby Marchan. Ace Records received a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail.
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Notable songs
Ace Records (United States) singles • "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" by Huey "Piano" Smith and The Clowns (1957) • "Don't You Just Know It" by Huey "Piano" Smith and The Clowns (1958) • "Just a Dream" by Jimmy Clanton (1958) • "Sea Cruise" by Frankie Ford (1958) • "Go, Jimmy, Go" by Jimmy Clanton (1959) • "Gee Baby" by Joe and Ann (1959 - 1960) • "Pop-Eye" by Huey "Piano" Smith and The Clowns (1962) • "Venus in Blue Jeans" by Jimmy Clanton (1962)
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1955
Ace Records established.
2008
Ace Records (2008) is digitised and catalogued by Open Library.
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- 1.Rick Kennedy und Randy McNutt, Little Labels – Big Sound, 1999, S. 127
- 2.Cash Box-Magazin, 4. April 1953
- 3.Rick Kennedy und Randy McNutt, Little Labels – Big Sound, 1999, S. 131
- 4.John Boven, Rhythm & Blues in New Orleans, 1995, S. 113 f.
- 5.Cosimo Matassa in John Boven, Rhythm & Blues in New Orleans, 1995, S. 122
- 6.John Boven, Rhythm & Blues in New Orleans, 1995, S. 132
- 7.Ace Records Discography, The Vin Series 1958–1961, siehe unten Weblink zu „Vin“
- 8.Vee-Jay gehörte zu dem halben Dutzend US-Labels, die ab März 1964 die Vertriebsrechte für Beatles-Platten erhielten. Allein innerhalb eines Monats im Jahre 1964 verkaufte Vee-Jay 2,6 Millionen Beatles-Platten
- 9.In der Ausgabe vom 13. August 1966 berichtete das Billboard-Magazin, dass die Liquidation angeordnet wurde
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