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Johnny Ace

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John Marshall Alexander Jr. (June 9, 1929 – December 25, 1954), known by the stage name Johnny Ace, was an American rhythm-and-blues singer. [1]

64 relations: ABC-CLIO, Abel Ferrara, African Methodist Episcopal Church, AllMusic, Aretha Franklin, B.B. King, Back to the Future, Bad Lieutenant, Big Mama Thornton, Bob Dylan, Bobby Bland, Cashbox (magazine), Charles Scribner's Sons, Christine (1983 film), Christmas, Christmas Caravan, Cover version, Dash Rip Rock, Dave Alvin, David Allan Coe, Duke Records, Eleven Eleven, Elvis Presley, Flair Records, Guarapero/Lost Blues 2, Hank Williams, Harper (publisher), Harry Hepcat, Houston, Joan Baez, John Carpenter, John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, Johnny Mathis, Kensington Books, Korean War, LeMoyne–Owen College, Los Angeles, Luther Vandross, Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets, Memphis, Tennessee, Moody Blue, My Song (Johnny Ace song), Never Let Me Go (Johnny Ace song), Never Let Me Go (Luther Vandross album), Nick Tosches, Oldsmobile, Paul Simon, Pledging My Love, ..., Polo Hofer, Rhythm and blues, Robert Zemeckis, Root Boy Slim, Russian roulette, Savoy Records, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Texas, The Late Great Johnny Ace, United States, University of Illinois Press, Varetta Dillard, WDIA, Will Oldham. Expand index (14 more) »

ABC-CLIO

ABC-CLIO, LLC is a publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.

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Abel Ferrara

Abel Ferrara (born July 19, 1951) is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content in his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings.

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African Methodist Episcopal Church

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the A.M.E. Church or AME, is a predominantly African-American Methodist denomination based in the United States.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and songwriter.

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Back to the Future

Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale.

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Bad Lieutenant

Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 American neo-noir crime drama film directed by Abel Ferrara.

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Big Mama Thornton

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bobby Bland

Robert Calvin Bland (né Robert Calvin Brooks; January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cash Box is a music industry trade magazine iconic brand.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

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Christine (1983 film)

Christine (also called John Carpenter's Christine) is a 1983 American psychological horror film directed by John Carpenter and starring Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, and Harry Dean Stanton.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

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Christmas Caravan

Christmas Caravan is a Christmas album by the swing revival band Squirrel Nut Zippers that was released in 1998 by Mammoth Records.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Dash Rip Rock

Dash Rip Rock is an American musical trio known for their high-octane roots rock.

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Dave Alvin

David Albert Alvin (born November 11, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, music producer and poet.

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David Allan Coe

David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who was popular in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Duke Records

Duke Records was an American record label, started in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1952 by David James Mattis (WDIA program director and DJ) and Bill Fitzgerald, owners of Tri-State Recording Company.

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Eleven Eleven

Eleven Eleven is the eleventh studio album by folk rock musician Dave Alvin.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Flair Records

Flair Records was an American record label owned by the Bihari brothers, launched in the early 1950s.

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Guarapero/Lost Blues 2

Guarapero/Lost Blues 2 is the title of a 2000 album by Will Oldham.

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Hank Williams

Hiram "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, currently the flagship imprint of global publisher HarperCollins.

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Harry Hepcat

Harry Hepcat is a first-generation rock and roll artist, performing rock, blues, doo-wop and rockabilly over seven decades.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice.

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John Carpenter

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer, musician, editor and composer.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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Johnny Mathis

John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music.

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Kensington Books

Kensington Publishing Corp. is a New York-based publishing house founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius (1923–2011)Grimes, William.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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LeMoyne–Owen College

LeMoyne–Owen College (LOC or simply "LeMoyne") is a fully accredited, four-year private historically black college located in Memphis, Tennessee, affiliated with the United Church of Christ.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Luther Vandross

Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr. (April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Charles Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film historian, whose career spans more than 50 years.

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Mean Streets

Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and co-written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Moody Blue

Moody Blue is the twenty fourth and final studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Records the month before his death in August 1977.

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My Song (Johnny Ace song)

"My Song" is the 1952 debut single by Johnny Ace.

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Never Let Me Go (Johnny Ace song)

"Never Let Me Go" is a blues ballad song by American R&B/blues singer Johnny Ace, written by Joseph Scott and released in 1954 under Duke Records.

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Never Let Me Go (Luther Vandross album)

Never Let Me Go is the eighth studio album (ninth overall) by American R&B recording artist Luther Vandross, released on May 26, 1993 in North America by Epic.

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Nick Tosches

Nick Tosches (born October 17 or 23, 1949) is an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet.

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Oldsmobile

Oldsmobile was a brand of American automobiles produced for most of its existence by General Motors.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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Pledging My Love

"Pledging My Love" is a blues ballad.

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Polo Hofer

Urs Alfred "Polo" Hofer (16 March 1945 – 22 July 2017) was a Swiss musician known for his work in the field of Swiss German pop and rock music.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Robert Zemeckis

Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American screenwriter and filmmaker frequently credited as an innovator in visual effects.

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Root Boy Slim

Root Boy Slim (July 9, 1944 – June 8, 1993) was the stage name assumed by American musician, Foster MacKenzie III.

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Russian roulette

Russian Roulette (русская рулетка, russkaya ruletka) is a potentially lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against his or her head, and pulls the trigger.

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Savoy Records

Savoy Records is an American record company and label established by Herman Lubinsky in 1942 in Newark, New Jersey.

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Squirrel Nut Zippers

Squirrel Nut Zippers is an American jazz band formed in 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by James "Jimbo" Mathus (vocals and guitar), Tom Maxwell (vocals and guitar), Katharine Whalen (vocals, banjo, ukulele), Chris Phillips (drums), Don Raleigh (bass guitar), and Ken Mosher.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Late Great Johnny Ace

"The Late Great Johnny Ace" is a song by Paul Simon, which appears on his 1983 Hearts and Bones album.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Illinois Press

The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is a major American university press and is part of the University of Illinois system.

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Varetta Dillard

Varetta Dillard (3 February 1933 – 4 October 1993) was an American rhythm and blues singer in the 1950s whose biggest hit was "Mercy, Mr.

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WDIA

WDIA is a radio station based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Will Oldham

Will Oldham (born December 24, 1970), better known by the stage name Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, is an American singer-songwriter and actor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Ace

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