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Yusuf Hazziez (born Joseph Arrington Jr.; August 8, 1935 [1] – August 13, 1982), known professionally as Joe Tex, was an American singer and musician who gained success in the 1960s and 1970s with his brand of Southern soul, which mixed the styles of funk, country, gospel, and rhythm and blues.
2002 Testifyin': The Essential Joe Tex (Castle Select) 2003 Classic Masters [28] 2004 This Is Gold (Disky) 2006 The Very Best of, Volume 1 ; 2006 The Very Best of, Volume 2 (Sony) 2006 Yum Yum Yum (HHO Licensing) 2006 The Best of Joe Tex (Platinum Disc) 2006 Golden Soul Hits (CBujEnt.) 2006 Nothing But a Joe Tex Party
Miss Country Soul is a studio album by Australian singer Diana Trask. It was released in February 1969 by Dot Records and consisted of 12 tracks written entirely by American soul artist Joe Tex. The album was marketed as a country recording and reached the top 40 of the US country chart.
The Soul Clan was a collective of American soul musicians led by Solomon Burke, which started in 1966 as started by Burke, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Don Covay and Joe Tex. Later, both Pickett and Redding left the collective and were replaced by fellow Atlantic artists such as Arthur Conley (a protege of Redding's) and Ben E. King. After the ...
Dial Records was formed specifically so Buddy Killen could record perhaps his best-known discovery, soul singer Joe Tex. [4] After a few tries and misses, Tex came up with a song called "Hold What You've Got", a 1964 ballad that bridged traditional rhythm and blues with the emerging Southern soul style and also pointed toward a future of rap thanks to Tex's spoken, almost testifying homily ...
"Skinny Legs and All" is a song composed and recorded by soul singer Joe Tex and released in 1967 on the Dial label in 1967. [1] The single was later featured on Tex's "live" album, Live and Lively a year later in 1968.
The song was covered by Joe Tex on his 1968 album Soul Country, by The Kentucky Headhunters on their 1989 debut album Pickin' on Nashville, by George Jones on his final album Hits I Missed... And One I Didn't, [4] and by Charley Crockett on his 2021 album, Music City USA.
"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.