Editing Johnny Ace (section)

==Legacy==
Rock-and-roll historian [[Harry Hepcat]] noted that "Johnny Ace was a crooner who sounded like [[Johnny Mathis]] with soul... Soon after the death of Johnny Ace, [[Varetta Dillard]] recorded 'Johnny Has Gone' for [[Savoy Records]] in early 1955. She incorporated many of Ace's song titles in the lyrics. This was the first of the many teen tragedy records that were to follow in the later 50s and early 1960s."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.harryhepcat.com/history3.htm |title=History of Rock and Roll, Part III|author= Hepcat, Harry|publisher=Harryhepcat.com}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=Joel Martin Show|publisher="Death Rock", WBAB 102.3 FM, New York, with guest Harry Hepcat, May 23, 1982}}</ref>

In addition to Dillard's "Johnny Has Gone", at least four other tribute records to Ace were released in 1955: [[Frankie Ervin]]'s "Johnny Ace's Last Letter"; The Rovers' "Salute To Johnny Ace"; [[Linda Hayes (singer)|Linda Hayes]]' "Why, Johnny, Why?"; and The Five Wings’ "Johnny's Still Singing".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/aces-wild-mw0002390084|title=Ace's Wild - Johnny Ace &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits |website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=June 30, 2021}}</ref>

[[Bob Dylan]] and [[Joan Baez]] performed "Never Let Me Go" on tour with the [[Rolling Thunder Revue]] in 1975. [[Luther Vandross]] covered this song in 1993 as the title track to [[Never Let Me Go (Luther Vandross album)|his eighth studio album]]. [[Elvis Presley]] recorded "Pledging My Love" in his last studio session, in 1976; the song appeared on the album ''[[Moody Blue]]'' in 1977.

[[Paul Simon]] wrote and performed the song "[[The Late Great Johnny Ace]]" (1983), in which a boy, upon hearing of the death of Ace, orders a photograph of the deceased singer: "It came all the way from Texas/With a sad and simple face/And they signed it on the bottom/From the Late Great Johnny Ace." The song develops a touching counterpoint with the death of two other Johnnies – [[John Lennon]] and [[John F. Kennedy]].

[[David Allan Coe]] covered "Pledging My Love", introducing the song with his own recollections of hearing the news of Ace's death.

Ace is mentioned in "[[House Band in Hell]]", by [[Root Boy Slim]], and in the song "Johnny Ace", by [[Dash Rip Rock]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mp3lyrics.org/d/dash-rip-rock/johnny-ace/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719141408/http://www.mp3lyrics.org/d/dash-rip-rock/johnny-ace/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |title=Dash Rip Rock Lyrics |publisher=Mp3lyrics.org|access-date=September 6, 2015}}</ref>

"Pledging My Love" was used in the 1973 film ''[[Mean Streets]]'', directed by [[Martin Scorsese]]; the 1983 film ''[[Christine (1983 film)|Christine]]'', directed by [[John Carpenter]]; the 1985 film ''[[Back to the Future]]'', directed by [[Robert Zemeckis]]; and the 1992 film ''[[Bad Lieutenant]]'', directed by [[Abel Ferrara]].

[[The Teen Queens]]' song "Eddie My Love", originally entitled "Johnny My Love", was written in memory of Ace.

The Swiss singer [[Polo Hofer]] and the Schmetterband wrote the song "Johnny Ace" in 1985; it was released on the album ''Giggerig''.
[[Will Oldham]] noted Ace's death in the lyrics of his song "Let the Wires Ring", on his 2000 album ''[[Guarapero/Lost Blues 2]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/gezundheit-let-the-wires-ring-mw0001278580 |title=Gezundheit/Let the Wires Ring – AllMusic Review |author=Ankeny, Jason |publisher=AllMusic|access-date=September 6, 2015}}</ref>

[[Dave Alvin]]'s 2011 album ''[[Eleven Eleven (Dave Alvin album)|Eleven Eleven]]'', contains the song "Johnny Ace Is Dead", about Ace's death.

The [[Squirrel Nut Zippers]]' Christmas album, ''[[Christmas Caravan]]'' (1998), contains the song "A Johnny Ace Christmas", a love song about Ace killing himself on Christmas.