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Ace Records (United States)

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Founder
  
Johnny Vincent

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Albums
  
My Kind of Blues, California Mudslide (And Earthquake)

Artists
  
Huey "Piano" Smith, Frankie Ford, Jimmy Clanton, Earl King, Bobby Marchan

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 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 went broke. 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.

Hits

  • "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)
  • "Pop-Eye" by Huey "Piano" Smith and The Clowns (1962)
  • "Venus in Blue Jeans" by Jimmy Clanton (1962)

    • References

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