The Rhythm Aces

R&B tranquility group the Tempo Aces formed in 1950 comprising initial tenor Billy Steward, second tenor Chuck Rowan, baritone Clyde Rhymes, and bass Vince Home; all were users from the U.S. Army’s Particular Services department stationed in Germany during the quartet’s development, ultimately earning the “All-Army Soldier Performing Competition” and getting an appearance around the Ed Sullivan Display because of this. Pursuing their 1954 release, the Tempo Aces returned towards the U.S. and installed a tour from the Midwest — their overall performance at Chicago’s Crown Propeller Lounge demonstrated such popular that the golf club called the group its regular headline take action, firing previous marquee take action the Moonglows along the way. Vee-Jay Information exec Ewart Abner quickly captured the Rhythm Aces’ take action and organized an audition with label owners Vivian and Jimmy Carter, who instantly extended a agreement present. Their debut solitary “I Question Why” adopted in past due 1954, however the group’s razor-sharp, sophisticated harmonies produced few inroads at radio or retail. Vee-Jay released the Tempo Aces’ luminous sophomore work “Whisper if you ask me” within the springtime of 1955, nonetheless it too didn’t attract much interest, and when an identical destiny befell their third solitary, “That’s My Sugars,” the label terminated the group’s agreement. After adding guitarist Sam Alexander and setting up Rowan on piano, the Tempo Aces toured Canada in past due 1955, but throughout a break from the street Rhymes wed while Steward and Alexander spent the holiday season in their indigenous Detroit, when just Rowan and Home turned up for any planned gig in NEW YORK, the group dissolved. Home afterwards led the Rockets (aka the Rocketeers), and beneath the alias “Vince Howard” released a solo work, “IF YOU WERE TO THINK, IF YOU WERE TO THINK,” in the Period label in 1957.