(2010 UK issue 22-track CD album - Shout! Records presents the first CD series collating the single recordings by Joe Tex from his hit years on the Dial label, chronologically sequenced, and featuring the A-side and B-side of each 45, with 'Volume 1' covering the years 1964 to 1966. Joe was already a veteran of a decade of recordings on King, Ace and earlier Dial releases, when producer Buddy Killen took him to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in October 1964 to record 'Hold What You’ve Got'. The disc was a crossover smash hit, and the rest is history. Each of the 11 A-sides in this collection reached the R&B top 20 and the US national Hot 100, providing a lasting impression of infectious mix of humor and soul philosophy that graced the music of Joe Tex)

Release date, April 27, 2010.

1. Hold What You've Got
2. Fresh Out Of Tears
3. You Better Get It
4. You Got What It Takes
5. A Woman Can Change A Man
6. Don't Let Your Left Hand Know
7. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
8. Build Your Love On A Solid Foundation
9. I Want To (Do Everything For You)
10. Funny Bone
11. A Sweet Woman Like You
12. Close The Door
13. The Love You Save (May Be Your Own)
14. If Sugar Was As Sweet As You
15. S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (Letter Song)
16. I'm A Man
17. I Believe I'm Gonna Make It
18. You Better Believe It, Baby
19. I’ve Got To Do A Little Bit Better
20. What In The World
21. Papa Was Too
22. The Truest Woman In The World

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Nice set.




...One of my Mom's favorites.



Music for adventurous listeners


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They released his previous material before he hit big with Hold What You've Got.

You know what's weird is I always meant to look this up and just did so after reading this thread.

There's a James Brown song, (I believe it's Funky Side of Town from Get On The Good Foot) where James and a couple of other guys are giving shout outs to various singers/bands that they found inspriational during the vamp of the tune.

At one point, one of them yells, "Joe Tex" and James Brown replies, "Who"?

This always confused me because one of James' earlier songs was Baby You're Right, written by Joe Tex.

I just looked him up on Wiki and it appears they had a feud over Joe's wife amongst other things. I'm guessing that I'm riding the pony express on this news wagon, but I never knew about this before.

Totally makes sense now.

In any event, I'll have to give this album a shot. I've always been curious about him.

They say if you listen very, very, very, very carefully to 'You Keep Her', you can hear James bust a couple of caps @ the end.


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Meanwhile , I'mma' groove to this.

~ Give The Baby Anything The Baby Wants ~

Fenwick said:

Heated rivals. They went from friends, label mates, tour mates, to gun slinging fights and wife stealing and move stealing among other things.

I'd like to hear Little Richard speak on them. They both toured with Richard in 56/57 before Richard found the light or whatever.

theAudience said:

Bruce Springsteen used to reference this song back in the early days. The Boss is a whole lot funkier than people know!

Also, what is that mic set-up? It looks like a one-piece deal with the mic actually a part of the stand, not held with a clip. And where is the cord? Is it fed through the stand? Or is this just a prop for a lip-synched performance?

Either way, it looks cool to me.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Cool. Learn something new every day.

Thanks