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. Its records were distributed since 1962 by 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.^[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... See also: 1954 in music, other events of 1955, 1956 in music, 1950s in music and the list of years in music // January 1 - RCA victor announces a marketing plan called Operation TNT. The label drops the list price on LPs from $5. ... Johnny Vincent (1927 - February 2000), born John Vincent Imbragulio, was an American record producer for Art Rupe at Specialty Records, founded Ace Records in 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi, 165 miles away from New Orleans. ... Teem Records was the budget sub-label of Ace Records See also List of record labels Categories: Record labels | Stub ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Vee-Jay Records was a record label, specializing in blues, rhythm and blues and rock and roll. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... After Jake Rivera previously started Stiff Records, Radar Records and F-Beat Records, he founded Demon Records with Andrew Lauder and Elvis Costello in 1980. ...

Ace recorded such artists as Earl King, Frankie Ford, Jimmy Clanton, Huey "Piano" Smith, Joe Tex and Bobby Marchan.^[2] Earl King (February 7, 1934 - April 17, 2003) was a singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most active in rhythm & blues music. ... Frankie Ford (born date?) is a rock & roll and rhythm & blues singer. ... Jimmy Clanton, known as the swamp pop R&B teenage idol[1], and his band recorded a hit song Just A Dream which Clanton had written in 1958 for the Ace Records label. ... Huey Piano Smith (born 26 January 1934 in New Orleans) is an American rhythm and blues pianist whose sound was influential in rock n roll. ... Joe Tex (born Joseph Arrington Jnr, in Baytown, Texas, on 8 August 1933; died in Navasota, Texas, on 13 August 1982) was an American soul singer most popular during the 1960s and 1970s. ... Bobby Marchan (born Oscar James Gibson, 30 April 1930 in Youngstown Ohio — died 5 December 1999) was a well-respected American rhythm and blues bandleader, MC, singer-performer, recording artist, and female impersonator, who initially began performing in New Orleans nightclubs, specifically the Dew Drop Inn and the Club Tiajuana...

See also

• List of record labels

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Notes

1. ^ Remembering Johnny Vincent 1927 2000. bluesworld. Retrieved on 2006-11-24.
2. ^ Gillett, Charlie (1996). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll, (2nd Ed.), New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press, p. 95. ISBN 0-306-80683-5. 

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External links

• Album discography
• Singles discography
• Art label design at www.collectable-records.ru
• Johnny Vincent