Johnny Ace, Memorial Album - 35m 9s

Tracks & Durations

1. Pledging My Love	2:31
2. Don't You Know	2:46
3. Never Let Me Go	2:53
4. So Lonely	2:31
5. I'm Crazy Baby	2:18
6. My Song	3:01
7. Saving My Love For You	2:38
8. The Clock	2:59
9. How Can You Be So Mean	2:30
10. Still Love You So	2:44
11. Cross My Heart	2:44
12. Anymore	2:58
13. Pledging My Love	2:29

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Review

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 prototypes for the posthumously-released "Pledging My Love," and the lugubrious "Anymore" was its identical follow-up. --Barney Hoskyns

Other Versions

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Memorial Album

Tracks: 12 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 32m 29s (-3m 20s)

Memorial Album

Tracks: 20 (+7 tracks), Disk length: 54m 2s (+18m 53s)

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