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Roy Ames
Roy Clifton Ames (April 8, 1937 – August 14, 2003) was an American record producer in the Texas blues scene, most famous for signing musician Johnny Winter in the mid-1960s. Between 1964 and 1986, Ames was arrested multiple times for producing and distributing child pornography involving young boys in Texas. Ames also had alleged ties to American serial killer Dean Corll and some of his victims. Early life Ames was born on April 8, 1937, to Raymond and Valorie Ames in Beaumont, Texas. He graduated from Beaumont High School in 1955 and later worked at his father's car dealership. Music career In 1959, Ames entered the music world. He claimed his first job was with King Records as the Texas sales manager, then moving on to Motown. A few years later, he would become a promoter and distributor for Duke/Peacock Records. Sometime in the early-to-mid 1960s, Ames founded his own label, Aura Records. The names of his record labels changed throughout the latter half of the decade, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, Jefferson County, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, located in Southeast Texas on the Neches River about east of Houston (city center to city center). With a population of 115,282 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Beaumont is the largest municipality by population near the Louisiana border. Its metropolitan area was the List of Texas metropolitan areas, 10th largest in Texas in 2020, and List of metropolitan statistical areas, 130th in the United States. The city of Beaumont was founded in 1838. The pioneer settlement had an economy based on the development of lumber, farming, and port industries. In 1892, Joseph Eloi Broussard opened the first commercially successful rice mill in Texas, stimulating development of rice farming in the area; he also started an irrigation company (since 1933, established as the Lower Neches Valley Authority) to support r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
