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    Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to songwriter...
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  • Joe Turner is the name of: Big Joe Turner (1911–1985), blues singer Joe Turner (jazz pianist) (1907–1990), jazz/stride pianist Joe Lynn Turner (born 1951)...
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  • Pinkney's Original Drifters and The Coasters. After touring Europe with Big Joe Turner, Walker appeared at the Bishopstock Blues Festival, before forming his...
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  • Shake, Rattle and Roll (category Big Joe Turner songs)
    "Charles Calhoun", his songwriting name) and first recorded that year by Big Joe Turner, whose version ranked No. 127 on the Rolling Stone magazine list of...
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    Joe Lynn Turner (born Joseph Arthur Mark Linquito, August 2, 1951) is an American singer known for his work in the hard rock bands Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen...
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  • Flip, Flop and Fly (category Big Joe Turner songs)
    "Flip, Flop and Fly" is a song recorded by Big Joe Turner in 1955. Called a "prototypical rocker", it was recorded by several early rock and roll performers...
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  • Honey Hush (category Big Joe Turner songs)
    Hush", is a blues song, written by Big Joe Turner (although he assigned the copyright to his wife, Lou Willie Turner), recorded in May 1953 in New Orleans...
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    Moody, Joe Morris, Art Pepper, Django Reinhardt, Pete Rugolo, Pee Wee Russell, Bobby Short, Sylvia Syms, Billy Taylor, Sonny Terry, Big Joe Turner, Jimmy...
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  • but with new lyrics), Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, Burl Ives, Big Joe Turner, Bobby Darin, Cisco Houston, Jimmy Smith, Mungo Jerry, Van Morrison...
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  • ISBN 978-0-89820-068-3. Swyner, Alan (1998). Liner notes to The Very Best of Big Joe Turner. Rhino CD 72968. "Elmore James". Mississippi Blues Trail. "Featured...
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    including Joe Turner's big band, Louis Jordan's Tympany Five, James Brown and LaVern Baker. In fact, this source states that "Louis Jordan joined Turner in laying...
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  • music" ("Hambone" by Red Saunders), "rhythm and blues" ("Honey Hush" by Big Joe Turner), "R&B" (the abbreviation of "rhythm and blues" and the name given to...
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  • Pennies from Heaven (song) (category Big Joe Turner songs)
    performed by Doris Day, Tony Bennett, Dinah Washington, Clark Terry, Big Joe Turner, Lester Young, Dean Martin, Gene Ammons,Legion of Mary, Guy Mitchell...
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  • Basie. Big Joe Turner – his style hardly changed at all between 1938's "Roll 'Em Pete", and 1954's "Shake, Rattle and Roll". AllMusic called Turner "the...
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  • Mafia crime boss Big Joe Turner (1911–1985), American blues shouter Joe Vagana (born 1975), New Zealand former rugby league footballer Joe van Niekerk (born...
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  • ". All compositions by Joe Turner except where noted "Well Oh Well" − 3:21 "Joe's Blues" − 5:16 "Bluer Than Blue" − 2:48 "Big Wheel" − 2:44 "Poor House"...
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    James Turner Jay Turner Jim Turner Jimmy Turner Joe Turner Joel Turner John Turner Kyle Turner Lynn Turner Max Turner Mark Turner Matt Turner Michael...
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    Roll 'Em Pete (category Songs written by Big Joe Turner)
    Pete" is a boogie-woogie song, originally recorded in December 1938 by Big Joe Turner and pianist Pete Johnson. The recording is regarded as one of the most...
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    partners. Hit artists that recorded on Atlantic included Ruth Brown, Big Joe Turner, The Clovers, The Drifters, The Coasters and Ray Charles. Like the Erteguns...
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  • 2021. Palmer, p. 134. Palmer, p. 146. "Big Joe Turner". Blues.org. Retrieved 23 February 2021. "Roll Over, Ike Turner". Texas Monthly. December 1, 2014. Retrieved...
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    James, Charlie Christian, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Big Joe Turner, Pete Seeger, Babatunde Olatunji, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Freddie...
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    with Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Stuff Smith, Charlie Christian, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Nat King Cole and Roy Milton. Following his rediscovery...
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    musicians would build their careers. African-American performers such as Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris and Fats Domino came to national prominence after Presley's...
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  • highlight black musical styles. It featured pianist Pete Johnson and singer Big Joe Turner, whose recording of "Roll 'Em Pete" helped spark a craze across American...
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  • The Boss of the Blues (category Big Joe Turner albums)
    The Boss of the Blues is a 1956 album by the American singer Big Joe Turner. Originally released on the Atlantic label, the album has been reissued many...
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  • Super Black Blues (category Big Joe Turner albums)
    Blues is an album by the Super Black Blues Band featuring Otis Spann, Joe Turner and T-Bone Walker recorded in Los Angeles in 1969 and originally released...
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    Man, Crazy" in 1953, and in 1954, "Shake, Rattle and Roll" sung by Big Joe Turner reached No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart. Haley's recording became an...
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  • Rodgers, the "blue yodeler", and Big Joe Turner, "the Boss of the Blues" compiled virtual encyclopedias of lyrics. Turner reputedly could sing the blues...
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  • Pint" Jaxon (1929), Walter Davis (1939), Johnny Temple (1940), and Big Joe Turner (1941). Veteran blues artists recorded for the revival market include...
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  • The concerts included performances by Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson, Helen Humes, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, Mitchell's...
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