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Joe Tex made the first Southern soul record that also hit on the pop
charts ("Hold What You've Got," in 1965, made number five in
Billboard). His raspy-voiced, jackleg preacher style also laid some of
the most important parts of rap's foundation. He is, arguably, the
most underrated of all the '60s soul performers associated with
Atlantic Records, although his records were more likely than those of
most soul stars to become crossover hits.
Tex was born Joseph Arrington in Rogers, TX, in 1933, and displayed
his vocal talent quickly, first in gospel, then in R&B. By 1954, he'd
won a local talent contest and come to New York, where he recorded a
variety of derivative (and endlessly repackaged) singles for King,
some as a ballad singer, some as a Little Richard-style rocker.
Tex's career didn't take off until he began his association with
Nashville song publisher Buddy Killen, after Tex wrote James Brown's
1961 song "Baby You're Right." In 1965, Killen took him to Muscle
Shoals, not yet a fashionable recording center, and they came up with
"Hold What You've Got," which is about as close to a straight R&B
ballad as Tex ever came. It was followed by a herd more, most of which
made the R&B charts, a few cracking the pop Top 40.
Tex made his mark by preaching over tough hard soul tracks, clowning
at some points, swooping into a croon at others. He was perhaps the
most rustic and back-country of the soul stars, a role he played to
the hilt by using turns of phrase that might have been heard on any
ghetto street corner, "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show" the prototype.
In 1966, his "I Believe I'm Gonna Make It," an imaginary letter home
from Vietnam, became the first big hit directly associated with that
war. His biggest hit was "Skinny Legs and All," from a 1967 live
album, his rapping pure hokum over deeply funky riffs. "Skinny Legs"
might have served as a template for all the raucous, ribald hip-hop
hits of pop's future.
After "Skinny Legs," Tex had nothing but minor hits for five years
until "I Gotcha" took off, a grittier twist on the funk that was
becoming disco. He was too down-home for the slickness of the disco
era, or so it would have seemed, yet in 1977, he adapted a dance
craze, the Bump, and came up with the hilarious "Ain't Gonna Bump No
More (With No Big Fat Woman)," his last Top Ten R&B hit, which also
crossed over to number 12 on the pop chart.
In the early '70s, Tex converted to Islam and in 1972 changed his
offstage name to Joseph Hazziez. He spent much of the time after
"Ain't Gonna Bump" on his Texas farm, although he did join together
with Wilson Pickett, Ben E. King, and Don Covay for a reformed version
of the Soul Clan in 1980. He died of a heart attack in 1982, only 49
years old. Killen, King, Covay, Pickett, and the great songwriter
Percy Mayfield served as pallbearers.
Tracks:
01. Hold What You've Got (3:06)
02. A Woman (Can Change A Man) (2:39)
03. A Sweet Woman Like You (2:35)
04. I Want To (Do Everything For You) (2:10)
05. Don't Make Your Children Pay (For Your Mistakes) (3:00)
06. The Love You Save (May Be Your Own) (2:57)
07. I Believe I'm Gonna Make It (3:01)
08. S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song) (2:47)
09. Papa Was Too (2:40)
10. Show Me (2:55)
11. Woman Like That, Yeah (3:11)
12. A Woman's Hands (3:26)
13. Skinny Legs And All (3:14)
14. Men Are Gettin' Scarce (3:14)
15. I'll Never Do You Wrong (3:06)
16. You Need Me, Baby (3:20)
17. Buying A Book (3:25)
18. You're Righ, Ray Charles (3:36)
19. Takin' A Chance (3:30)
20. I Gotcha (2:15)
21. You Said A Bad Word (2:32)
22. Have You Ever? (Alternate Mix) (3:07)
23. Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman) (3:28)
24. The Same Things It Took To Get Me (2:43)
25. She Said Yeah (3:27)
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