ACE RECORDS
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ACE was first local label of note in New Orleans , even thought it was operated out of
Jackson Mississippi , 196 miles away .
ACE was formed by Johnny Vincent in August 1955 . Vincent was previously a salesman ,
then a producer for Specialty Records. Almost all of the Ace recordings were made
at Cosimo Matassa's studio in New Orleans.
LP 1001 JIMMY CLANTON JUST A DREAM 1959
Just A Dream / Take Her Back / No Greater Love / Part Of Me / It's All Over Now /
Land of tomorrow // Letter To An Angel/ It Takes A Long Long Time/ My Love Is Strong
/ Losing The One I Love / Angel Face / Ship On A Stormy Sea
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LP 1002 JOE BURTON TRIO JOE BURTON PLAYS 1959
(Note : possibly not issued)
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LP 1003 PROFESSOR HUGS HONKY TONK PIANO 1959
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LP 1004 HUEY "PIANO" SMITH & THE CLOWNS : HAVIN' A GOOD TIME 1959
Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu / Little Chickee Wah Wah / Little Liza
Jane / Just A Lonely Clown / Hush Your Mouth / Don't You Know Yockomo // Havin' A
Good Time / Don't You Just Know It / Well I'll Be John Brown / Everybody's Whalin'
/ High Blood Pressure / We Like Birdland
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LP 1005 FRANKIE FORD ON A SEA CRUISE 1959
Sea Cruise / Alimony / Danny Boy / It Must Be Jelly / Watchdog / What's Going On //
Roberta / Can't Tell My Heart / Your Game Is Over / I'm Worried Over You / Hour Of
Need / Cheatin' Woman
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LP 1006 ALVIN "RED" TYLER ROCKIN' AND ROLLIN' 1960
Junk Village / Tonking / Classy Lassie / Lonely For You / Double Whammy / Shake Eyes
/ Happy Sax / Dippy / Drag Race / Long Ride / Peanut Vendor / Walk On
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LP 1007 JIMMY CLANTON JIMMY'S HAPPY 1960
You're Just In Love / A Kiss To Build A Dream On / Jimmy's Tune / That Old Feeling /
Linda / I'm Sitting On The Top Of The World // Sleepy Time Gal / I'm Beginning To
See The Light / Beg Your Pardon / Over The Rainbow / You're An Old Smoothie / I'm
Always Chasing Rainbows
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LP 1008 JIMMY CLANTON JIMMY'S BLUE 1960
I Feel Those Tears Comin' On / Somebody Please Help Me / You'll Never Know / Don't
Look At Me / Nothing Left For Me / I'm Gonna Try // Another Sleepless Night / You
Better Settle Down / You Kissed A Fool Goodbye / Love Me Tonight / Highway Bound /
I Wanna Go Home
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LP 1009 FIFI BARTON ONE IS A LONELY NUMBER 1960
One Is A Lonely Number / Don't Get Around Much Anymore / Rainy Day / But Not For Me
/ Jelly Jelly Blues / When Your Lover Has Gone // Who's Sorry Now / Don't Take Your
Love From Me / If I Had You / Smoking My Sad Cigarette / That Old Feeling / One For
My Baby (One More For The Road)
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LP 1010 RHYTHM MASTERS RELIGIOUS HYMNS 1961
Pass Me Not / Take My Hand Precious Lord / I'm Gonna Move To The Sky / Teach Me Lord
To Waits / Just For Today/ God Made A Way // Amazing Grace / Just A Closer Walk With
Thee / Bend Away Down Low / The Devil And His Old Suitcase / I'll Follow Jesus /
Holding My Savior's Hand
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LP 1011 JIMMY CLANTON MY BEST TO YOU 1961
Just A Dream / Another Sleeples Night / Go Jimmy Go / My Old True Love / Come Back /
Wait / What Am I Gonna Do / If I / Little Boy In Love / I Trusted You / I'm Gonna
Try / A Letter To An Angel
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LP 1012 V / A THE GREATEST 15 HITS ON ACE 1961
JIMMY CLANTON Just A Dream
FRANKIE FORD Sea Cruise
SCOTTY MCKAY Let The Good Times Roll
JO & ANN Gee Baby
HUEY "PIANO" SMITH Don't You Just Know It
THE CLOWNS High Blood Pressure
BIG BOY MYLES New Orleans
EARL KING Those Lonely Lonely Nights
BOBBY MARCHAN We Like Birdland
ALVIN "RED" TYLER Happy Sax
LITTLE "GONZO" BOOKER Teen Age Rock
EDDIE BO I'll Keep On Trying
CHARLES BROWN/AMOS MILBURN I Wanna Go Home
LLOYD PRICE Such A Mess
HUEY & JERRY Little Chick Wah Wah
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LP 1013 C.Z.BREAUX MORE LAUGHS WITH THE CAJUN 1961
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LP 1014 JIMMY CLANTON TEENAGE MILLIONAIRE
Teenage Millionaire / Possibility / Smokey / Yogi / Kissin' Game / Somebody Nobody
Wants / Back To School Blues / Hello Mister Dream/ Green Light / Happy Times / Let's
Twist Again / The Jet / The Way I Am / Lonely Life / Show Me / Oh Mary / I Wait
(Note : soundtrack)
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LP 1015 HUEY "PIANO" SMITH & THE CLOWNS : FOR DANCING 1961
She Got Low Down / Somewhere / Rockin' Behind The Iron Curtain / Somebody Put A Tack
(In My Cotton Pickin' Chair) / Doin' The Beatnik Twist / We Want Him Under Alimony
// Scald Dog / Susie Q / Free Single And Disengaged / Tuber-culucas And The Sirup
Flu / I Tried / Mean Mean Man
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LP 1016 V / A WORLD'S FUNNIEST CAJUN HUMOR 1961
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LP 1017 SCOTTY MCKAY TONIGHT IN PERSON 1961
Sea Cruise / Roberta / Lonely Lonely Nights / I Got My Eyes On You / Shattered
Dreams / Olive Learned To Pop-Eye // Cry Me A River / Little LIza Jane / Let The
Good Times Roll / Brown Eyed Handsome Man / You're So Square / Shame
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LP 1018 ROLAND STONE JUST A MOMENT 1961
Just A Moment (Of Your Time) / Something Special / Because I Do / Desert Winds /
I Can't Help It / Preacher's Daughter // I Was A Fool / Everybody's Lonesome /
Remember Me / Down The Road / I Wann / Symphony Two
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LP 1019 V / A : THE POP - EYE : LET'S HAVE A DANCE PARTY 1961
HUEY SMITH & THE CLOWNS The Pop-Eye
THE CLOWNS Charleston In The USA
THE CLOWNS Come On Let's Hully Gully
THE CLOWNS Stomping Everywhere
THE CLOWNS Strollin' My Baby Back Home
THE CLOWNS Do The Slop
THE MARVELS Crazy 'Bout The U.T.
THE MARVELS The Continental Twist
THE MARVELS Doin' Everything
THE MARVELS Don't Pony With Tony
CLIFF THOMAS Gonna Do The Fish
JIMMY CLANTON Twist On Little Girl
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LP 1020 V / A FOR TWISTER'SONLY 1962
HUEY "PIANO" SMITH Everybody's Twistin'
SCOTTY MCKAY Little Liza Jane Twist
ROLAND STONE Something Special Twist
BILL ROBIN & HIS COMBO Boll Weevil Twist
BILL ROBIN & HIS COMBO Near You Twist
ROLAND STONE Because I Do Twist
THE CLOWNS Scald Dog Twist
FRANKIE FORD Roberta Twist
JAMES BOOKER Teenage Twist
LARRY BIRDSONG Who Do You Love Twist
JON KENNEDY Big Bad Jon The Twister
JIMMY CLANTON Happy Time Twist
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LP 1021 ALVIN "RED" TYLER TWISTIN' WITH MR.SAX 1962
(Note : identical record to LP 1006 except the word "Twist" is added to every title)
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LP 1022 HOLLY LOVE & THE TEDDY SIMMS DREAMY FIVE : MY LOVE CONFESSIONS 1962
I Fell In Love With An Astronaut (What A Big Astronaut He Turned Out To Be) / Who
Took Me Home (After The Office Party) / I'm Just A Hip Musicians Wife (My Husband
Loved To Blow) / Last Season I Made My Debut (Little Did They Know I Was Expecting)
/ I Married An Oil Man Of 75 (But His Pumping Days Are Over) // I Caught My Husband
In Another Man's Arms (Do You Think He Is A Little Queer) / I Was A Teenege Stripper
(I Just Loved To Bump And Grind) / A Farm Boy Taught Me "How" (At Least He Thinks He
Did) / I Made A Pass At A Football Player (And-Oh!-Did He Tackle Me) / I Was A Nurse
At City Hospital (All Of My Patients Were Men)
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LP 1023 JIMMY REED COMBO TIME TO DANCE 1962
See You In September / Yesterdays / Third Man Theme / Take The "A" Train / My Funny
Valentine / Drume Negrita / Mambo Jumbo // Big Noise From Winnetka / Nightingale /
What Is This Called Love / Cornsville Medley / Bie Dir War Es Immer So Schon
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LP 1024 GIL PETERSON SINGS OUR LAST GOODBYE 1962
Cottage For Sale / Somewhere Along The Way / I Get Along Without You Very Well / In
The Wee Small Hours / It Won't Be The Same Without You // I'll Bee Seeing You /
February Brings Rain / The Night We Called It A Day / Our Last Goodbye / When Your
Lover Has Gone
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LP 1025 DAVID FISHER PETITE CHOSE 1962
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LP 1026 JIMMY CLANTON VENUS IN BLUE JEANS 1962
Darkest Street In Town / Molly Darling / Dreams Of A Fool / Walk With Me / Not Like
A Brother / Just A Moment // Venus In Blue Jeans / Because I Do / Lucky On Love
(With You) / I Just Wanna Meke Love / Twist On Little Girl / Wayward Love
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LP 1027 HUEY "PIANO" SMITH & THE CLOWNS : 'TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS 1962
'Twas The Night Before Christmas / White Christmas Blue / Happy New Year / All I
Want For Christmas / Silent Night // I Wrote To Santa Claus / Almost Time For Santa
/ Rock'n'Roll Santa Claus / Jingle Bells / Doing The Santa Claus
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Note : titles under the numbers 1023,1024,1025,1026 ixist in stereo format too.
DLP 100 JIMMY CLANTON JIMMY'S HAPPY , JIMMY'S BLUE 1960
(Note : double LP came in a gatefold cover that combined LP 1007 & LP 1008)
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