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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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In 1999, "Turn On Your Love Light" received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame list of the "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll". - Wikipedia

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

Michael Corcoran Ghost Notes: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music (TCU Press)

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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.

Duke’s mascots are twin unicorns holding a crowned company crest and the sleeves strikes a heavy resemblence to the Marlboro logo. Also note the address “Houston 26″. During the Fifties, it was common for U.S. cities to be numbered at the same time phone numbers were alphabetized.

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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

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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

Released: September, 1956 Peacock Records

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Don Robey, Duke-Peacock Records, Houston, Texas

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Morty Marker for Back Beat Records, 1958, (Don Robey production). Houston, Texas