Pledging My Love
| "Pledging My Love" | ||||
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| Single by Johnny Ace | ||||
| B-side | "No Money" | |||
| Released | December, 1954 | |||
| Format | 7", 10" | |||
| Genre | R&B, ballad | |||
| Length | 2:35 | |||
| Label | Duke | |||
| Writer(s) | Ferdinand Washington, Don Robey | |||
| Producer(s) | Johnny Otis | |||
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"Pledging My Love" is a blues ballad. It was written by Ferdinand Washington and Don Robey and published in 1954.
The song's theme is captured in the title and the opening lines:
The most popular recording of the song was done by Johnny Ace. It was released by Duke Records as catalog number 136 in December 1954, soon after Ace's death by an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound. Ace's version peaked on the Billboard chart at #17 and spent ten weeks at #1 on the R&B chart.
The recording was produced by Johnny Otis, who also played the vibraphone on the track and featured the Johnny Otis band.
In 1958 it was reissued with additional background vocals, using the same label number. This issue was backed by his Anymore, modified similarly.
Ace's "Pledging My Love" was used multiple times in the 1983 film Christine directed by John Carpenter and written by Stephen King about a 17-year-old boy in love with a possessed 1958 Plymouth Fury. It is briefly heard in Back to the Future (1985) when Lorraine Baines is in the car with her future son Marty McFly. The song is also played during the movie Bad Lieutenant and another Harvey Keitel movie, Mean Streets.
Paul Simon wrote a song called "The Late Great Johnny Ace" and released it on his Hearts and Bones album. In the early 2000s, Simon sang "Pledging my Love" live in concert, telling the audience that this record was the first one he ever bought.
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