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Big Joe Turner. Joseph Vernon " Big Joe " Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. [3] According to songwriter Doc Pomus, " Rock and roll would have never happened without him". Turner's greatest fame was due to his rock and roll recordings in the 1950s, particularly "Shake ...
Big Joe Turner (born May 18, 1911, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.—died November 24, 1985, Inglewood, California) was an American blues singer, or “shouter,” whose music included jazz, rhythm and blues, and boogie-woogie. He has been credited as a progenitor of jump blues and of early rock and roll. Singing in his youth in church choirs and ...
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Sep 14, 2013 · This is part of a series of live performance for the short lived 1950's variety series Show Time at The Apollo which were later re-cut into the theatrical re...
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Oct 16, 2014 · Music video by Big Joe Turner performing Shake, Rattle, & Roll (Live).
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HALL OF FAMEESSAY. “Rock and roll would have never happened without him,” songwriter Doc Pomus remarked in Rolling Stone magazine on the occasion of Big Joe Turner’s death in 1985 at the age of seventy-four. Turner, a Kansas City born-and-bred blues shouter, had already more than earned the appellation the Boss of the Blues when he found ...
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American vocalist Joseph Vernon “Big Joe” Turner Jr. was from Kansas City, Missouri. Rock and roll “would have never happened without him,” says songwriter Doc Pomus. His rock-and-roll recordings from the 1950s, especially “Shake, Rattle, and Roll,” brought him the most renown, but his career as a performer lasted from the 1920s ...
Nov 24, 2010 · Joseph Vernon Turner Jr. went by many names during his lifetime: the Singing Barman, the Boss of the Blues, and most famously, owing to his outsized 6-foot-2-inch 300-pound physique, Big Joe. He ...
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