Big Joe Turner

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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.

"Rock and roll would have never happened without him," songwriter Doc Pomus says. His greatest success came from his 1950s rock-and-roll recordings, especially "Shake, Rattle, and Roll," but Turner's career as a performer spanned the 1980s, with the Hall lauding him as "the brawny voiced "Boss of the Blues."

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Career

Turner was born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, on May 18, 1911. When Turner was four years old, his father was killed in a train accident. He performed in his church and sold money on street corners. He left school at the age of fourteen to work in Kansas City's nightclubs, first as a cook and then as a singing bartender. He became known as "The Singing Barman" and appeared in such venues as the Kingfish Club and the Sunset, where he and his partner, boogie-woogie pianist Pete Johnson, became resident performers. Piney Brown oversaw the Sunset. It featured "separate but equal" facilities for white patrons. In his honour, Turner wrote "Piney Brown Blues" and performed it regularly throughout his career.

"The Boss man would have his bondsmen down at the police station before we arrived," Turner said. We'd walk in, sign our names, and then walked straight out. We will not have cabaret until morning, so we will not have to worry until the morning."

His relationship with Johnson was fruitful. Both of them went to New York City in 1936, where they appeared on a playbill with Benny Goodman, but "We didn't feel ready for us yet," Turner said, but "We weren't ready for us." They were finally seen by talent scout John Hammond in 1938, who invited them back to New York to perform in one of their From Spirituals to Swing concerts, which were instrumental in bringing jazz and blues to a wider audience in the United States.

Turner and Johnson had a big success with their single "Roll 'Em Pete," which was in part due to their appearance at Carnegie Hall. The album was essentially a collection of traditional blues lyrics. Over the years, Turner recorded it several times with various artists.

Turner and Johnson, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis, joined Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis in 1939, a nightclub in New York City, where they appeared on the same stage as Billie Holiday and Frankie Newton's band. "Cherry Red," "I Want a Little Girl," and "Wee Baby Blues" are among Turner's best-known songs from this period, besides "Roll 'Em, Pete." In 1939, "Cherry Red" was released on the Vocalion label, with Hot Lips Page on trumpet and a full band in attendance. Turner joined Decca in 2006 and released "Piney Brown Blues" with Johnson on piano.

In 1941, he went to Los Angeles and appeared in Duke Ellington's revue Jump for Joy in Hollywood. In a comedy sketch, he appeared as a singing policeman. "He's on the Beat" says the actor. Los Angeles was his home for a time, and he appeared in Meade Lux Lewis's Soundtrack musical films in 1944. He appeared on the soundtrack but was unable to film, and comedian Dudley Dickerson had his vocals mouthed for the camera, and comedian Dudley Dickerson had starred on the video. The Blue Moon Club, a Los Angeles bar, was founded by Turner and Pete Johnson in 1945.

He also signed a recording deal with National Records in 1945, for which he appeared under Herb Abramson's direction. His first hit single was a recreation of Saunders King's "S.K.." "The Blues" are a film from 1945. He recorded "My Gal's a Jockey" and the risqué "Around the Clock" the same year, and Aladdin Records released "Battle of the Blues," a duet with Wynonie Harris. Turner remained with National until 1947, but none of his albums were huge success. He recorded the song "Still in the Dark" in 1950, which was released by Freedom Records. Joe Turner appeared at the Cavalcades of Jazz concert in Los Angeles, which was also produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. on September 23, 1945 to a crowd of 15,000. Count Basie, the Honeydrippers, The Peters Sisters, Slim and Bam and Valaida Snow were among the featured artists. Turner appeared alongside Dizzy Gillespie at the fourth annual Cavalcade of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles on September 12. Frankie Laine, The Sweethearts of Rhythm, The Honeydrippers, Little Miss Cornshucks, Jimmy Witherspoon, The Blenders, and The Sensations were among the day's programs.

Turner recorded many albums with Johnson, Art Tatum, Sammy Price, and other jazz bands. He has worked with many recording companies. He has also appeared with the Count Basie Orchestra. Turner was a member of the transition from big bands to rhythm and blues to rock and roll during his career. He was a master of traditional blues poems, and at the Kansas City jam sessions, he could switch choruses with instrumental soloists for hours.

He was seen by Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun, who rented him to their new recording company, Atlantic Records, in 1951, while performing with the Count Basie Orchestra at Harlem's Apollo Theatre as a replacement for Jimmy Rushing. Turner's golds, "Chains of Love," and "Sweet Sixteen" were all big hits for them. In "Boogie Woogie Country Girl" ("That's a good rockin' band!" Many of his vocals are punctuated with yelps to the band members.

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"Hi-yo, Silver!" and "Honey Hush" will be a theme in his songs) and "Honey Hush" is always on display. (To his horse named Silver, a common command used by Lone Ranger on his popular radio show." Turner's records have risen to the top of the rhythm-and-blues charts. Some of his songs were so risqué that some radio stations refused to air them, but they did get a lot of attention on jukeboxes and records.

Turner's "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" (1954), which dramatically contributed to his fame, making him a teenager favorite, and also helped to change popular music, had a huge following. Turner yells at his lady to "get out of the bed," wash yo' face an' hands, and boasts that she is "wearin' those dresses" throughout the performance. All the chaos belongs to you, I can't believe my eyes." Rhythm and Blues Revue, a 1955 theatrical film, had him on film.

Although Bill Haley & His Comets' version, which had the risqué lyrics partially removed, was a greater sales hit, many listeners sought out Turner's version and were introduced thereby to rhythm and blues. "Shake, Rattle and Roll" by Elvis Presley mixed Turner's lyrics with Haley's arrangement, but it was not a commercial hit.

"The Chicken and the Hawk," "Flip, Flop, and Fly," "Hide and Seek," "Morning, Noon and Night," and "Well All Right" were all hits from this period. In the film Shake Rattle & Rock, he appeared on the television showtime at the Apollo and in the film Shake Rattle & Rock. (1956): A tyrant in the United States.

During 1956, the song "Corrine, Corrina" became a big hit. He released Boss of the Blues, a compilation of rock music, in addition to the rock music albums. On May 26, 1958, his last hit, "I'm Gonna") Jump for Joy," appeared in the US R&B's biggest chart.

With Bill Haley, the Comets, LaVern Baker, and the Bellboys, he toured Australia in 1957.

Turner resisted popular music and returned to small jazz combos, selling several albums in that vein in the 1960s and 1970s. Bill Haley, a 1966 collector, helped revive Turner's career by loaning him the Comets on a number of popular Orfeón recordings in Mexico. In 1977, he released "The Things That I Used to Do" as a cover of Guitar Slim's album "The Things That I Used to Do."

He revived jazz and blues music in the 1960s and 1970s, appearing at numerous music festivals and recording for Norman Granz's Pablo Records. He has also worked with Axel Zwingenberger. Turner co-starred in a "Battle of the Blues" with Wynonie Harris and T-Bone Walker.

With trumpeter Buck Clayton and trombonist Vic Dickenson, he toured in England in 1965, joined by Humphrey Lyttelton and his band. The BBC televised part of a studio performance, which was then released on DVD. A sound recording of a club appearance made during this tour is not expected to support a commercial issue. With Count Basie and his orchestra, he also toured Europe.

In 1945, he received the Esquire magazine award for best "new" vocalist of 1954, and the British Jazz Journal award as the best male vocalist of 1965. Turner's 1977 album "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" for Spivey Records, with Lloyd Glenn on piano. Turner's career spanned Kansas City's barrooms (1920s to 1980s European jazz festivals (when he appeared with a pencilled moustache and his father's hat) until the 1980s (when he was in the 1920s when he first appeared in a barroom with a pencilled moustache and his father's hat).

Turner was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1983, two years before his death. Mute Records' album Blues Train was released in the same year; Turner appeared on the album in the band Roomful of Blues; In the Kansas City jazz reunion film The Last of the Blue Devils (1979), which starred Jay McShann, Jimmy Forrest, and other city stars, Turner received top billing with Count Basie.

Turner died of heart disease in Inglewood, California, at the age of 74. Etta James and Barbara Morrison's funeral included musical tributes. He was buried in Gardena, California, at Roosevelt Memorial Park.

In 1987, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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