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Bobby Bland - Turn On Your Love Light (Stereo) (1961) Joe Scott (Joseph Wade Scott) / Deadric Malone (Don Robey) from: "Turn On Your Love Light" / "You're the One (That I Need)" (Single)

R&B

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Personnel: Bobby "Blue" Bland: Vocals Wayne Bennett: Guitar Joe Scott: Trumpet Melvin Jackson: Trumpet Pluma Davis: Trombone Bobby Forte: Tenor Saxophone (Soloist) Johnny Board: Tenor Saxophone Jimmy Beck: Tenor Saxophone Rayfield Devers: Baritone Saxophone Teddy Reynolds: Piano Hamp Simmons: Bass John "Jabo" Starks: Drums Joe Scott: Band Leader Horns Arranged by Joe Scott Produced by Don Robey (owner of Duke Records) Recorded: @ The ACA Studios in Houston, Texas USA during 1961 Released: November, 1961 Duke Records

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“Robey did have a heart, it turned out. . . It stopped beating in 1975.”

Duke label 7″ sleeve (Memphis, Houston)

R&B and gospel label originating in Memphis 1952 by WDIA dee-jay and program director David James Mattis and Bill Fitzgerald, both co-owners of Tri-State Recording Company. Duke then merged with Don Robey’s Peacock label who later took it all to Houston.

Johnny Ace with Johnny Board's Orchestra - Pledging My Love (1955) Ferdinand Washington / Don Robey from: "Pledging My Love" / "No Money" (Single)

(Johnny Board's Orchestar = The Johnny Otis Orchestra)

Rhythm and Blues | Ballad

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Personnel: Johnny Ace: Vocals | Piano Johnny Otis: Vibraphone James Von Streeter: Tenor Saxophone Pete Lewis: Guitar Albert Winston: Bass Leard Bell: Drums

Produced by Johnny Otis

Recorded: @ ACA Studios (Audio Company of America) in Houston, Texas USA on January 25, 1954

Released: on February 12, 1955 Duke Records

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Released Posthumously: Johnny Ace died on December 25, 1954, at the age of 25, from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound backstage during a concert intermission in Houston, Texas.

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While Johnny Ace's "Pledging My Love" is historically classified as a blues ballad and a foundational R&B hit, it possesses several atmospheric and sonic qualities that lead listeners and critics to view it as a distant ancestor to the "dreamy" aesthetic later formalized as dream pop. - Google AI

Big Walter and His Thunderbirds - Pack Fair and Square (1956) Walter Price from: "Pack Fair and Square" / "Hello Maria"

Jump Blues | Barrelhouse Piano

"… inspired by Big Joe Turner's hit "Flip Flop and Fly"

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Personnel (speculative): "Big" Walter Price: Vocals / Piano Vernon "Spot" Barnett: Saxophone Grady Gaines: Saxophone Clifford Burks: Saxophone Nat "Buster" Douglas: Guitar Junior Moore: Guitar Olsie "Bassy" Robinson: Bass Charles "Chuck" Connor: Drums

Produced by Don Robey

Recorded: @ Peacock Records Studios in Houston, Texas USA July, 1956