Ace of Clubs was owned by Decca Records in the UK, and was used to reissue classical music in LP form from their back catalogue at a reduced price. Decca also owned Ace of Hearts Records which did exactly the same job but with US material.
Ace of Clubs may refer to:
Matthias Paul, better known by his stage name Paul van Dyk (born (1971-12-16)16 December 1971) is a German Grammy Award-winning Electronic Dance Music DJ, musician and record producer. One of the first true Superstar DJs, Paul van Dyk was one of the first artists to receive a Grammy nomination in the newly added category of Best Dance/Electronic album for his 2004 release Reflections. He was named the World's No. 1 DJ in both 2005 and 2006, something less than a handful of DJs have ever achieved. Paul van Dyk is the only DJ to hold a spot in the World's Top 10 DJs since 1998. He is also the first DJ to be named No. 1 by Mixmag in 2005. As of 2007, he has sold over 4.5 million albums worldwide.
A trance producer starting in the early 1990s, Paul quickly achieved popularity with his remix of "Love Stimulation" by Humate under the record label MFS in 1993, and with his hit single, "For an Angel", but in recent times he no longer likes to describe his music as trance, but rather simply as electronic dance music.
Luke Vibert is a British recording artist and producer known for his work in many subgenres of electronic music. Vibert began his musical career as a member of the Hate Brothers, only later branching out into his own compositions. Vibert has recorded under several different aliases, most notably Plug and Wagon Christ.
Vibert's first musical output was in a variety of bands, including a punk act called Five Minute Fashion and later a Beastie Boys-esque group called the Hate Brothers, but he quickly moved into the low-cost environment of solo electronic composition. Although Vibert originally had no intention of ever releasing any of the work, his reputation as a creative young voice in his field has created a demand for his work.
Vibert originally became involved in electronic music through his interest for hip-hop as well as the environment of bedroom experimentalism associated with the swelling late-'80s UK dance scene. Luke and a friend, Jeremy Simmonds, released an album through the Rephlex label under the name of Vibert/Simmonds which caught the ear of Caspar Pound's Rising High music label. As a result of the popularity of the style in the early 90's, the label commissioned an ambient music album from Vibert, who delivered the well-received Phat Lab Nightmare under the alias Wagon Christ in 1993.
Eden Kane (born Richard Graham Sarstedt, 29 March 1941, Delhi, India) is an early 1960s British pop singer.
Like Cliff Richard, Pete Best, and Engelbert Humperdinck, Eden Kane was born in India, but returned to Britain as a child. He first created some interest for his talent with an advertising jingle for Cadbury's, called "Hot Chocolate Crazy", issued as a single by Pye Records. This was played almost as often as Horace Batchelor's football pools advertisement on Radio Luxembourg.
This was quickly followed in 1961 by his only number one hit in the UK Singles Chart, "Well I Ask You", on Decca. The song was written by Les Vandyke and arranged by John Keating. Vandyke had earlier worked on two chart-topping singles for Adam Faith, ("What Do You Want" and "Poor Me"). The further quirky connection is that both artist's stage names owed more than a little of their originality to Genesis, Chapter One.
Success continued with three further Top10 hits during the next twelve months. However, a couple of flops, financial problems, and a change in label to Philips subsidiary Fontana marked a decline similar to that experienced by most of the pre-Beatles UK stars. Like many of his teen idol peers, Kane sought to stave off chart oblivion by hitching a ride onto the beat boom bandwagon, teaming with a group with real Liverpool pedigree - Fontana labelmates Earl Preston and the TT's. This energetic attempt, originally titled "Do You Love Me" (c/w "Comeback") was reissued with a new title "Like I Love You", to avoid confusion with the UK hit covers by Brian Poole & the Tremeloes and the Dave Clark Five of The Contours' U.S. hit of the same name, and some momentum was lost.
Beneath the chandeliers
Upon the Persian rugs
Carousers take their stand
Fine whiskey in their hands
The rakes are in the halls
The dugs are in t' the yards
As Fortune's lost and won
Upon a deck o cards
Haloo the horse and hounds
The fox and cubs
The gamblers and the rakes
The sporting bloods
Adieu the decks o cards
The dice and dugs
Adieu my luves
And on yer grave
The Ace of clubs
The Earl o Carrick's son
Has penniless become
The whisper's in the hall
Prestonfield must fa
Up Sir William stands
The deck is in his hands
'I stake my house and lands
Upon a single card! '
The portraits on the wall
The ghosties in the hall
The ancestors appalled
Prestonfield will fa
The nobles and the lords,
Auld reekies big and sma
The baronets a craw
Prestonfield will fa
The count picks up the cards
'The word of peers is law
Should I tup your card
Prestonfield will fall'
And with a deadly grin
He cuts the King of Spades
And as Sir William prays
He draws the Ace Of Clubs
Farewell the rakes and bloods
The whooring and the chase
My drinking days are gone
My gambling nights erased
I'll idle in the grounds
Mak follies in the yards
And never will again