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The album cover for Horror Cult's The Texorcist depicts Big Tex on fire. The image of Big Tex and the statue's iconic stance is commonly used in regional advertising campaigns. Big Tex's image was featured prominently on a tour promotion poster for the Japanese J-Pop group " Puffy AmiYumi " on their three-city April 2017 USA "Not Lazy Concert ...
"Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)" is a song composed by Joe Tex and Buddy Killen, and released by Tex as a single in December 1976, bringing the musician back to the top 40 of the US pop and R&B charts simultaneously for the first time since 1972's "I Gotcha". Tex used his aunt Bennie Lee McGinty's name as composer for tax reasons.
Following this and another album, Tex announced his retirement from show business in September 1972 to pursue life as a minister for Islam. [1] Tex returned to his music career following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975, releasing the top-40 R&B hit, "Under Your Powerful Love". His last hit, "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman ...
Big Tex has greeted State Fair of Texas visitors for 70 years, but ten years ago a fire brought the North Texas icon down to its metal frame. PHOTOS: Big Tex caught fire 10 years ago today Skip to ...
The big winner of this night is Israel for the second time in a row. The winning song is " Hallelujah " sung by the group Milk and Honey , including Gali Atari . A few months after winning the song had been translated into more than 82 languages, and broke a new record by entering the Guinness Book of Records as the most translated song in the ...
Bumps & Bruises is an album by the American R&B musician Joe Tex, released in 1977 via Epic Records. [6] [7] The album peaked at No. 108 on the Billboard 200. [8] "Ain't Gonna Bump No More" was Tex's last major hit, making the top 10 on the R&B chart and the top 20 on the pop chart. [9] The song reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. [10]
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In 1985, Buck appeared on the album Trash, Twang And Thunder, which featured various artists known collectively as Big Guitars From Texas. The album track, "Guitar Army" ‒ featuring Buck, Frankie Camaro, Keith Ferguson, Denny Freeman, Evan Johns, and Jesse Taylor ‒ garnered a 1986 Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.