LoginMemorial Album
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Johnny Ace's greatest hit, the dirge-like blues ballad "Pledging My Love," will forever be entwined with the shocking story of his death during a game of Russian roulette in Houston on Christmas Eve, 1954. The opening track on Duke's Memorial Album, it sounds--with its stark beat, chiming vibes, and Western-saloon piano--as if it had been sung by a ghost. An original member of Memphis's Beale Streeters, piano man Ace could also do rollicking R&B ("Don't You Know"), but Memorial Album is top-heavy with all things slow and mournful: "The Clock" and "Never Let Me Go" were essentially prot
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Manufacturer: Mca
Release date: 25 October 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0076731118321 UPC: 076731118321
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Release date: 25 October 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0076731118321 UPC: 076731118321
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