† REMEMBERING - NOV 24 1985 – Big Joe Turner, American singer (b. 1911) Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr., May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri, United States. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, Rock and roll would have never happened without him. While he had his greatest fame during the 1950s with his rock and roll recordings, particularly Shake, Rattle and Roll, Turners career as a performer endured from the 1920s into the 1980s. 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. Known variously as The Boss of the Blues, and Big Joe Turner (due to his 62, 300+ lbs stature), Turner was born in Kansas City. His father was killed in a train accident when Joe was only four years old. He first discovered a love of music in his involvement at church. He began singing on street corners for money, quitting school at age fourteen to work in Kansas Citys nightclubs, first as a cook, and later as a singing bartender. He became known eventually as The Singing Barman, and worked in such venues as The Kingfish Club and The Sunset, where he and his piano playing partner Pete Johnson became resident performers. In 1951, while performing with the Count Basie Orchestra at Harlems Apollo Theater as a replacement for Jimmy Rushing, he was spotted by Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegün, who contracted him to their new recording company, Atlantic Records. Turner recorded a number of successes for them, including the blues standards, Chains of Love[6] and Sweet Sixteen. Turner had a great success during 1954 with Shake, Rattle and Roll, which seriously enhanced his career, turning him into a teenage favorite, and also helped to transform popular music. During the song, Turner yells at his woman to get outa that bed, wash yo face an hands and comments that shes wearin those dresses, the sun comes shinin through!, I cant believe my eyes, all that mess belongs to you. He died in Inglewood, California in November 1985, at the age of 74 of heart failure, having suffered the earlier effects of arthritis, a stroke and diabetes......... O:) 8-) The STUDIO version of Shake, Rattle, & Roll........ ;) https://youtube/watch?v=k7Y5tCZerCs
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:56:34 +0000
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