Ace Records (US)

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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. 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]

Ace recorded such artists as Earl King, Frankie Ford, Jimmy Clanton, Huey "Piano" Smith, Joe Tex and Bobby Marchan.[2]

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  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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