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Johnny Ace is a Rhythm and blues act. Their sound grew out of Bobby Bland, Junior Parker, Charles Brown, Rufus Thomas and B.B. King. Those roots explain a lot about how Johnny Ace arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Fats Domino, Big Joe Turner, Bo Diddley, Ivory Joe Hunter and Chuck Willis, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bobby Bland, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Luther Vandross and Elvis Presley, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Johnny Ace, reaching back through Bobby Bland and forward to Bobby Bland. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
John Marshall Alexander Jr., known by the stage name Johnny Ace, was an American rhythm-and-blues singer. He had a string of hit singles in the mid-1950s. He emerged as a prominent figure in postwar R&B and gained fame with hits such as "My Song", "Cross My Heart", and "Pledging My Love". Ace's smooth vocal style and romantic ballads made him a popular artist, particularly on R&B radio stations and jukeboxes. At the height of his career, he toured extensively and was regarded as one of the most promising young stars in the genre.
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Johnny Ace grew out of Bobby Bland, Junior Parker, Charles Brown and Rufus Thomas, shares an orbit with Fats Domino, Big Joe Turner, Bo Diddley and Ivory Joe Hunter, went on to shape Bobby Bland, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Luther Vandross. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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