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November 4, 2020 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Helen Shapiro Face the Music Complete Singles

Welcome to today's first installment of our Ace Records Round-Up featuring a number of the label's latest titles! Helen Shapiro sang her way into the hearts of Britons as a teenager.  Inspired by the success of Alma Cogan, Helen was just 14 when she scored a No. 3 hit on the U.K. Singles Chart with "Don't Treat Me Like a Child."  The same year of 1961, she charted not one but two No. 1 singles, "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness."  Soon, she was appearing in films and appearing

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Helen Shapiro

February 21, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

On the Detroit Beat

Ace Records has released a number of splendid Motown collections in recent years, but now the label is taking a different approach to the music of Hitsville, USA.  As Motown celebrates its landmark 60th anniversary, On the Detroit Beat: Motor City Soul - U.K. Style 1963-1967 brings together 24 diverse British interpretations of Motown classics, making for a potent reminder that the Sound of Young America was, truly, international. Compiler Tony Rounce helpfully points out in his liner notes

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Helen Shapiro, Small Faces, The Birds, The Hollies, The Spencer Davis Group, Various Artists

August 29, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Marylebone Beat Girls

Around this time last summer, we filled you in on two volumes of Ace's Beat Girls series focusing on sixties starlets from the Pye and Decca labels.  Now, Ace has recently released another volume in the series.  Marylebone Beat Girls looks at the big-city acts recording out of London's Marylebone district, home of EMI's headquarters and its labels like Parlophone, His Master's Voice, and Columbia.  This 25-track collection of uptempo nuggets brings the Swingin' London fusion of pop, rock, and

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Alma Cogan, Beryl Marsden, Billie Davis, Cilla Black, Helen Shapiro, Julie Driscoll, Various Artists

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