Ace Records is proud to announce the purchase of the Shrine
label and Eddie Singleton’s independent productions.
To celebrate we have compiled an album of the very best
dance recordings the label made in 1965 and 1966, primarily in
Washington DC.
The business’s failure made this music incredibly hard to find
for record collectors and Shrine is rightly known as the rarest
soul label.
It is much more than that though. The music was made by
some one of the original founders of Motown, Raynoma Liles
Gordy and her Motown-schooled cousin Mike Ossman, New
York music business luminaries Eddie Singleton and Harry
Bass and the up-and-coming talents of Washington’s Keni St
Lewis and Maxx Kidd. The acts included the hugely respected
Ray Pollard and fellow New Yorker J.D. Bryant, talented and
established Washington and Baltimore acts Eddie Daye & The
4 Bars, Bobby Reed and the Enjoyables. Importantly, they
discovered and developed the local talent of the area in the
shape of the Cautions, Les Chansonettes, the Prophets and
Shirley Edwards.
