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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 Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." His greatest fame was due to his rock-and-roll recordings in the 1950s, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", but his career as a performer endured from the 1920s into the 1980s He was known as The Boss of the Blues and Big Joe Turner. He was 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighed over 300 pounds.
Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, with the Hall lauding him as "the brawny voiced 'Boss of the Blues'".
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Albums
The Midnight Special
Flip, Flop & Fly
Shake, Rattle and Roll / You Know I Love You Single
It's a Low Down Dirty Shame / Nobody in Mind Single
It's the Same Old Story / Rebecca Single
Cherry Red / Baby Look at You Single
Roll 'em Pete / Goin' Away Blues Single
Popular Songs
- Hey Little Girl
- How Long, How Long Blues
- Too Late, Too Late
- Things That I Used to Do
- Juke Joint Blues
- J.T. Blues
- Tell My Pretty Baby
- Still in the Dark
- New Oo-Wee Baby Blues
- Sally Zu-Zazz-Blues
- Jumpin' at the Jubilee
- I'm a Lovin' Man
- My Gal's a Jockey
- Blues on Central Avenue
- Sun Risin' Blues
- Careless Love
- It's All Right Baby
- Every Day I Have the Blues
- TV Mamma
- Goin' to Chicago Blues: 1941-09-08, Los Angeles
- Watch That Jive: 1945-02-02, New York
- Doggin' the Blues (Low-Down Dog): 1945-05-10, Chicago
- I Got My Discharge Papers: 1946-01-23, Los Angeles
- I Got a Gal
- Howlin' Winds: 1945-05-10, Chicago
- S. K. Blues (part 2): 1945-02-02, New York
- Little Bitty Gal's Blues: 1944-10-30, Chicago
- John & Turner Blues: 1945-02-02, New York
- It's the Same Old Story: 1944-10-30, Chicago
- Blues in the Night: 1942-01-28, Los Angeles
