Big Beat Records is a British record label and import distributor owned by Ace Records, specialising in garage rock.Colin Larkin The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music 1561591769 - - Volume 1 1995- Page 52 Ace Records Ted Carroll and Roger Armstrong, co-owners of London collectors' shop Rock On, established the Ace label in ... A subsidiary, Big Beat, was set up the following decade as an outlet for garageband and psychedelic material.David Stubbs, Rob Young Ace Records: Labels Unlimited 2008 Page 87 Another example of the type of group Big Beat worked with was The Stingrays. As Alec Palao, the American-based English expat, one time member of the band and subsequent Ace consultant, recalls: "The band was an amalgam of everything we were into, be it rockabilly, garage punk, 1970s punk, surf, northern soul, folk-rock; we were omnivores." The Stingrays were the classic example of a band who had supersized on Ace's ever-increasing and eclectic output of lost music.
Roster Releases include:
The Ace of Cups Big Star Dean Carter The Chocolate Watchband Count Five Creedence Clearwater Revival The Cramps The Damned Fifty Foot Hose The Flaming Stars Frumious Bandersnatch The Fugs Guana Batz Dan Hicks Bert Jansch Janie Jones & the Lash Larry and the Blue Notes Mahogany Rush Mighty Baby Thee Mighty Caesars Motörhead The Music Machine The Nightcrawlers The Rationals John Renbourn The Screaming Blue Messiahs She The Sonics The Sting-rays Strawberry Alarm Clock Sharon Tandy The Zombies
See also Lists of record labels
References
External links Official page, Acerecords.co.uk