Книга: Johnny Ace «The Workshop of Filthy Creation: The Art of Johnny Ace and Kali Verra»
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Johnny Ace
Infobox musical artist
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Background = Solo Singer
Birth_name = John Marshall Alexander, Jr.
Alias = Johnny Ace
Born = birth date|1929|6|9
Died = death date and age|1954|12|5|1929|6|9
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Genre = R&B
Years_active = 1949- 1954
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Johnny Ace (
Career
Alexander's father was a preacher in Tennessee. After serving in the navy during the
Becoming "Johnny Ace", he signed to
Ace began heavy touring, often with Willa Mae "Big Mama" Thornton. In the next two years, he had eight hits in a row, including "Cross My Heart," "Please Forgive Me," "The Clock," "Yes, Baby." and "Never Let Me Go." In December, 1954 he was named the Most Programmed Artist Of 1954 after a national DJ poll organized by U.S. trade weekly Cash Box.
Ace's recordings sold very well for those times. Early in 1955, Duke Records announced that the three 1954 Johnny Ace recordings, along with Thornton's "Hound Dog", had sold more than 1,750,000 records.
Death
After touring for a year, Ace had been performing at the City Auditorium in
There have also been accusations that record company owner
Ace's funeral was on
Tributes
Johnny Ace and "Pledging My Love" are mentioned in the early
"Pledging My Love" was used multiple times in the 1983 film "Christine" directed by John Carpenter and written by Stephen King about a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury obsessed with a 17 year-old boy.
An early scene in Charles Burnett's 1977 film, "
"Next wave wash your pretty face/And keep in mind that Johnny Ace/Was drunk, was fucked, was not on stage/When he made that silly move he made/And only after once dead we/Adore him more, adore that money/After when his corpse was cool/That ugly memorable fool/Who shot the Christmas spirit down/And lit a fame, that half-made clown."
(full lyrics: http://pry.com/pulpit/lyrics/wiresring.html)
His biggest song, the haunting
"The Night Johnny Ace Died," a short fiction by
Discography
* 1952 Remember I Love You (SUN, unissued)
* 1952 I Cried Last Night (SUN, unissued)
* 1952 My Song / Follow the Rule (Duke 102) - with
* 1953 Cross my Heart / Angel (Duke 107) - with Beale Streeters
* 1953 The Clock / Aces Wild (Duke 112) - Ace playing piano
* 1954 Midnight Hours Journey / Trouble And Me (Earl Forrest) (rerelease of 1951 Flair 1015)
* 1954 Saving my Love for You / Yes, Yes, Baby (Duke 118)
* 1954 Please Forgive Me / You've Been Gone So Long (Duke 128)
* 1954 Never Let Me Go / Burley Cutie (Duke 132)
* 1954 Pledging My Love / No Money (Duke 136) (posthumous release, 12 Feb 1955) - #1 on R&B charts for 10 weeks, US pop charts #17.
* 1955 Anymore / How Can You Be So Mean (Duke 144) - 10" 78rpm
* 1956 So Lonely/ I'm Crazy Baby (Duke 148)
* 1956 Don't You Know / I Still Love You So (Duke 154)
* 1955 Johnny Ace Memorial Album (Duke LP-70) - 10" EP
* 1974 Johnny Ace Memorial Album (ABC/Duke DLPX71)
Sources
* Rolling Stone, "Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll". New York: 1995. ISBN 0-684-81044-1
* Dafydd Rees and Luke Crampton. "Rock Movers and Shakers". Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1991. ISBN 0-87436-661-5
* ROCK ON: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock n' Roll: The Solid Gold Years: 1974, 1982: [Thomas Y. Crowell Company,
External links
* [http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_artists-bio/Johnny-Ace.html Johnny Ace Tribute]
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7132860 Johnny Ace's Photo & Gravesite]
* [http://www.hip-oselect.com/scr.public.productdetails.asp?product_id=df341a6b-25d7-6418-4abf-950fe1f3b13d HIPO's Johnny Ace bio]
* [http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/jace.html Johnny Ace Remembered]
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