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echo: 60s_70s_progrock
to: KYLE YOKSH
from: MARTIN RIDGLEY
date: 1997-10-11 08:33:00
subject: Ace

 =-> Quoting Kyle Yoksh to All re: Ace:
 KY> I'm looking for an album by 'ACE'. Does anyone know if it's still
 KY> available? I forget the name of the album, but it's supposed to be an
 KY> import, and the song I most want is "How Long".
 KY> Any help would be appreciated.. Thanks, Kyle
   This is kind of off-topic for this echo, but anyway... I would think
 that your best bet for finding the song, "How Long" would be to look at
 compilations of 1970s hits.  I'm not sure if the original album has ever
 been re-issued on CD and vinyl copies may be a bit hard to find now.
   "How Long" originally appeared on the Ace album called, _Five a Side_,
 released on Anchor Records in 1974.  The song didn't become a hit in
 North America until 1975, IIRC though.  Anyhow, Ace released two more
 albums, _Time For Another_ (1975), and _No Strings_ (1976) before folding
 in the late 1970s.
   Group leader Paul Carrack, who wrote and sang, "How Long" went on to
 further successes with Squeeze and with, Mike & the Mechanics (which
 brings this thread a tad closer to the realm of topicality, since the
 latter were a side project of Mike Rutherford from the former Prog-Rock
 group, Genesis).  ;-)
   Hope this helps a bit....
      Cheers,
               Martin
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