JOHNNY ACE -

"Pledging My Love" - Iyrics

Forever my darling our love will be true
Always and forever I'll love just you
Just promise me darling your love in return
May this fire in my soul dear forever burn

My heart's at your command dear
To keep love and to hold
Making you happy is my desire dear
Keeping you is my goal

I'll forever love you
For the rest of my days
I'll never part from you
and your loving ways

My heart's at your command dear
To keep love and to hold
Making you happy is my desire dear
Loving you is my goal

I'll forever love you
For the rest of my days
I'll never part from you
and your loving ways.

Single Released Posthumously

The most popular recording of the song was done by Johnny Ace. It was released by Duke Records as catalog number 136 in 1955 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.

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.