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	Johnny Ace - Rhythm & Blues at Randy's Rodeo
		For years, the fascinating story of Johnny Ace was a chapter in rock history short on details.
		But Johnny Ace is still one of rhythm and blues' unsung heroes, a pioneer unappreciated outside the rarified world of record collectors and rock critics.
		Johnny Ace's story is one of the most tragic tales in the annals of early rock 'n' roll, and one can only hope that our continued fascination with him will bring more sparkle to his star and more recordings to the market.
	www.randysrodeo.com /rhythm/ace.php (832 words)

	Ace Records
		JOHNNY TILLOTSON/ It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin/ You Can Never Stop Me Loving You
		TO ENQUIRE ABOUT THE STATUS OF ANY MASTER OR PUBLISHING ROYALTIES FOR TRACKS RELEASED BY ACE, PLEASE CONTACT TREVOR CHURCHILL
		TO ENQUIRE ABOUT THE AVAILABLITY OF ANY ACE RECORDS MASTERS FOR LICENSING, PLEASE CONTACT CHRIS LINES
	www.acerecords.co.uk (127 words)

	Johnny Ace
		JOHNNY ACE has a fledgling career as a private eye under way, but it's just one of a number of hats he wears.
		In fact, the original Johnny Ace was an early, 1950's rock star.
		DJ Johnny Ace is a likeable, laddish investigator who tries to discover why a friend's teenage son has been kidnapped.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /eyes/ace.html (556 words)

	Portrait of a Champion<Home
		Johnny Ace Palmer, a world champion magician, has, through a lifetime devoted to practicing magic, accomplished what no other magician has been able to do.
		Johnny's quest to be the best has been a lifelong endeavor, beginning with his first interest in magic at the age of four.
		Johnny, on the other hand, felt that in order to demonstrate as perfect a performance as possible, his act must be as close as humanly possible to the time limit without exceeding it.
	www.johnnyacepalmer.com /pages/portraitoac.html (672 words)

	Johnny Otis
		Bandleader Johnny Otis has been called “the Godfather of Rhythm and Blues.” Over the years he has exhibited an uncanny ear for talent, and by bringing that talent to the fore has served to advance the growth and development of rhythm and blues.
		Johnny Otis, meanwhile, has kept his touring revue alive and remained tirelessly active over the decades as a bandleader, radio deejay record producer, college professor, author, painter, sculptor and more.
		October 16, 1999: ‘The Johnny Otis Rhythm and Blues Caravan,’ a three-CD box set that compiles his seminal recordings for the Savoy label from 1945 to 1952, is released.
	www.rockhall.com /inductee/johnny-otis (819 words)

	James M. Salem / The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&B to Rock 'n' Roll
		If Elvis Presley was a white man who sang in a predominantly fl style, Johnny Ace was a fl man who sang in a predominantly white one.
		His soft, crooning "heart ballads" took the fl record-buying public by storm in the early 1950s, and he was the first postwar solo fl male rhythm and blues star signed to an independent label to attract a white audience.
		Johnny Ace's career lasted barely eighteen months, yet musicians from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon have acknowledged their debt to him.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /s99/salem.html (296 words)

	Johnny Otis
		Johnny Otis, a son of Greek parents, grew up in a fl residential area of West Berkeley, Californian Vallejo, across the bay from San Francisco.
		The Johnny Otis Rhythm and Blues Caravan, which crisscrossed the country, was the fore runner of the later traveling rock and roll revues.
		Johnny Otis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994
	www.history-of-rock.com /johnny_otis.htm (1075 words)

	Limited Johnny Ace Discography
		Johnny Ace recorded music in a unique style often called "heart" music.
		Johnny's music is transitional from jazz, inspired by Johnny Otis, to rhythm and blues.
		The Flair and Duke recordings were done with the Johnny Otis Orchestra or the the Johnny Board Band (Ace's touring band.
	www.duvigneaud.net /Johnny_Ace.html (407 words)

	His Act<Home
		Johnny's act virtually bursts at the seams with the most sophisticated effects in all of magic.
		Johnny makes four half dollars walk across the backs of his fingers simultaneously, and then makes a coin fly a full 14 inches upward from his immobile hand.
		And after Johnny leaves, they often remember their extraordinary encounter with him--often only five to ten minutes--for the rest of their lives.
	www.johnnyacepalmer.com /pages/his_act.html (515 words)

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		Ace and Thornton continue to barnstorm across the country with a two week stay at Pep's in Philadelphia and then an extended Midwestern tour and ending with another week at New York's Apollo Theater in mid April.
		Johnny Ace and Willa Mae Thornton are joined by Faye Adams and Memphis Slim and The Houserockers for a number of dates up and down the West coast.
		Johnny Ace had a definite shot at becoming the first great cross over artist of the rock 'n roll years had he lived.
	home.earthlink.net /~jaymar41/jace.html (1419 words)

	Johnny Ace St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Ace's blues ballads borrowed the 32-bar popular song form, and were sung in an imploring but softly colloquial style in the tradition of California-based blues singer and pianist Charles Brown.
		Ace signed with Duke Records,; which was one of the first fl-owned independent record companies to expose and promote gospel and rhythm and blues to a wider fl audience.
		The Late, Great Johnny Ace, who influenced California blues man Johnny Fuller and the Louisiana "swamp rock" sound, made largely poignant music which came to reflect his fate--that of a sad and lonely man, whose gentle songs were unable to quell his inner tension or prevent his tragic end.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200007 (775 words)

	Johnny Ace Bio
		Johnny Ace (not to be confused with the late great RandB singer) hails from New York City and is one of the most respected bassists in the blues profession today.
		Johnny Ace was born on June 7th, 1949 in Jamaica, Queens (N.Y.C.) and grew up in the rock and roll craze of the early 1960's.
		Ace never forgot what it was like in Mississippi where fl people were made to walk on the other side of the street and were afraid to look a white person in the eyes.
	www.lemonace.com /johnny.htm (1907 words)

	THE JOHNNY ACE WEB PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ace had gone backstage for a five-minute break and had been fooling around with a revolver with one bullet in the chamber.
		Ace, whose real name was John Alexander, was one of the brightest stars in the randb field.
		The late Johnny Ace's recording of "Pledging My Love" for Duke Records, which has broken thru in the pop as well as the r&b field, has created a flurry of excitement in the pop field.
	www.group-harmony.com /ACE/john-ace.htm (554 words)

	Johnny Otis Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Johnny Otis was born December 28, 1921 in Vallejo, California.
		Johnny Otis discovered many legendary Rhythm and Blues singers such as Esther Phillips, Willie Mae "Big Momma" Thornton, Etta James, and the Robins (who later evolved into the Coasters), all of whom were at one time featured vocalists in his band.
		In the 1960's Johnny served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Mervin Dymally, whose career he followed from the State Assembly, State Senate, Lieutenant Governorship of California, to the U.S. Congress.
	www.johnnyotisworld.com /biography (597 words)

	Johnny Ace - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: The senseless death of young pianist Johnny Ace while indulging in a round of Russian roulette backstage at Houston's City Auditorium on Christmas Day of 1954 tends to overshadow his relatively brief but illustrious recording career on Duke Records.
		That's a pity, for Ace's gentle, plaintive vocal balladry deserves reverence on its own merit, not because of the scandalous fallout resulting from his tragic demise.
		One further hit, "Anymore," exhausted Duke's stockpile of Ace masters, so they tried to clone the late pianist's success by recruiting Johnny's younger brother (St. Clair Alexander) to record as Buddy Ace.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/567/Johnny-Ace/1020403.html (306 words)

	Morphizm.com -- Johnny Ace Crosses Over
		Johnny Ace was the stage name adopted by John Alexander.
		It's probably the slowest of all Johnny Ace songs, the dragging tempo underscored by an echo effect on the drums.
		Johnny Ace music poured from the speakers, and I looked at the rural landscape rushing by.
	www.morphizm.com /art/tom/johnnyace.html (2233 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Becoming "Johnny Ace", he signed to Duke Records (originally a Memphis label associated with WDIA) in 1952.
		Johnny Ace and Pledging my Love are mentioned in the early Sam Shepard one-act play Cowboy Mouth.
		Ace is one of the late musical legends set to appear on stage.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Johnny_Ace (859 words)

	Johnny Ace : Memorial Album - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Johnny Ace inadvertently pioneered the rock & roll cliché of "live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse." On Christmas day, 1954, Ace died at the age of 25 as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound he received while playing Russian Roulette backstage at a show in Houston, TX.
		Ace recorded a mere 21 songs in his lifetime, and not long after his death Duke Records prexy Don Robey compiled 12 of them on Memorial Album.
		Ultimately, this album forged the sonic portrait of Johnny Ace that has survived to this day, and it's still a powerful and indelible set of songs, with Ace's smooth but unmistakably melancholy voice riding on a pillow of tape echo over the lazy shuffle of drums, organs, and vibraphones.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,40782,00.html (316 words)

	The Late Great Johnny Ace And The Transition From R&B To Rock 'n' Roll by James M. Salem \| PopMatters Book Review
		Yet during his brief musical life Johnny Ace was more popular than any fl artist from that home of so many great fl artists, while his influence on the development of American music was, if not quite as seismic as Presley's, an essential element in the creation of the musical revolution of the mid-Fifties.
		Ace's label-mate and stage co-performer, a major singer in her own right, Big Mama Thornton is as formidable a presence in this book as she undoubtedly was in real life.
		Ace lasted about 18 months in the public eye and his records survive, if at all, as marginalia to a largely nostalgic view of rock'n'roll's formative years.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/l/late-great-johnny-ace.shtml (1496 words)

	Johnny Ace
		Johnny Ace is actually a blues artist, who sang with a lot of soul.
		In 1952 Johnny recorded two songs for the well known Memphis based SUN label, both songs were never issued and are today considered "lost".
		On Christmas eve of that year, while on a promotional tour of concerts, Johnny was playing Russian Roulette backstage at the City Auditorium in Houston, and accidently shot himself.
	www.rockabilly.nl /artists/johnny_ace.htm (223 words)

	Johnny Ace Bio (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ace Kicker & Face Eraser (The Ace Kicker is a kick to the face.
		They stand up, a lil' wobbly maybe, and Ace jumps onto his one foot and lifts the other one to the opponents face.
		Ace climbs the opposite turnbuckle but on the same side of the ring.
	www.angelfire.com /extreme3/hcwhardcore/Ace.html (120 words)

	JOHNNY ACE
		In 1954, Ace was released from prison in Oklahoma and migrated to St. Louis to resume his life as a pick-up player.
		Ace is recognized as America's foremost photo surrealist, a genre he invented.
		Johnny Ace is just like real rock 'n' roll.
	www.primitivekoolart.com /pages/ace.html (469 words)

	HIPO (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Johnny was fooling around with a blues ballad entitled “So Long” that had been a 1949 hit for Ruth Brown.
		Johnny’s second RandB chart-topper “The Clock,” credited to Ace and Mattis, was waxed in January of ‘53 in Houston.
		Johnny’s tinkling piano introduction is answered note-for-note by Otis’ vibes before Ace’s warm baritone croon confidently enters to promise eternal devotion.
	www.hip-oselect.com /scr.public.productdetails.asp?product_id=df341a6b-25d7-6418-4abf-950fe1f3b13d (1287 words)

	www.myspace.com/johnnyace10
		Born: June 9, 1929 Died: December 25, 1954 Hometown: Memphis, Tenn. Johnny Ace is actually a blues artist, who sang with a lot of soul.
		Johnny Ace had already compiled a substantial chart record, scoring a bevy of Top 10 "race" hits, including two..1 singles ("My Song" and "The Clock").
		There is nothing like kicking back and listening to some good old Johnny when suffer from the bitterness of the one who's left alone...
	profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=70287557 (592 words)

	SLAM! Wrestling Editorial: Johnny is WCW's Ace in the hole
		Ace, for those of you who don't follow Japanese wrestling, was a perennial mid-carder in All Japan Pro Wrestling for most of the 90s.
		Ace is also the guy who recently acquired a seat on the WCW booking team.
		Ace is the man to thank for WCW matches having more logical finishes lately.
	slam.canoe.ca /SlamWrestlingEditorial/aug10_molinaro.html (1373 words)

	Johnny Ace : Memorial Album (10") - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Three of the four cuts from their next date are also included, specifically worthy of note are the loose and limber instrumentals "Aces Wild" and "Burley Cutie," while the languid ballad "Angel" is akin to Ace and company's standard fare.
		The results speak for themselves, especially "The Clock"'s foreboding temperament and Ace's decidedly impetuous side, displayed as he is flanked by Big Mama Thornton (vocals) for "Yes Baby." "Please Forgive Me" and Ace's biggest crossover entry "Pledging My Love" followed in rather quick succession and not surprisingly both became huge R&B hits as well.
		Johnny Board (sax), the leader of Ace's touring ensemble, became the musical director for his final batch of tunes.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,40783,00.html (411 words)

	Billboard.com - Discography - Johnny Ace - Memorial Album
		Johnny Ace inadvertently pioneered the rock and roll cliché of "live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse." On Christmas day, 1954, Ace died at the age of 25 as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound he received while playing Russian Roulette backstage at a show in Houston, TX.
		Ace recorded a mere 21 songs in his lifetime, and not long after his death Duke Records prexy Don Robey compiled 12 of them on Memorial Album.
		Ultimately, this album forged the sonic portrait of Johnny Ace that has survived to this day, and it's still a powerful and indelible set of songs, with Ace's smooth but unmistakably melancholy voice riding on a pillow of tape echo over the lazy shuffle of drums, organs, and vibraphones.
	www.billboard.com /bbcom/discography/index.jsp?aid=1102&pid=3923 (321 words)

	African American Registry: Johnny Ace, a smooth R&B singer!
		The senseless death of young pianist Johnny Ace while playing (and loosing) in a round of Russian roulette backstage at Houston's City Auditorium on Christmas Day of 1954 overshadow his brief but illustrious recording career.
		Ace's gentle, plaintive vocal balladry deserves reverence on its own merit.
		Johnny Ace died December 25, 1954 in Houston, Texas.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/1819/Johnny_Ace_a_smooth_RB_singer (246 words)

	Johnny Ace (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There are numerous accounts of exactly what happened one of the accounts as told by Johnnys girlfriend who was there was that on the roadshow during intermission various members of the troup would go backstage and take turns putting the pistol to their heads and pulling the trigger.
		Johnny lifted the pistol to his head, pulled the trigger, and his luck ran out,
		Johnny Ace had a great voice and a haunting way of delivering a song and no doubt he would have gone on to be a superstar in the RandB, Pop field had this
	www.bigbobh.net /dowop/ace.htm (226 words)

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