Big Joe Turner - The Very Best of Big Joe Turner

Title: The Very Best of Big Joe Turner Artist: Big Joe Turner Release Date: 1951 Re-Released On: 2/3/1998 Label: Atlantic, Rhino, Rhino Flashback Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 081227296827, 081227985257, 081227994518 Genre: Rhythm & Blues Styles: Early R&B, Rock & Roll, Urban Blues, Jump Blues Moods: Boisterous, Joyous, Amiable/Good-Natured, Freewheeling, Party/Celebratory, Passionate, Fun, Sophisticated, Happy, Cheerful, Earthy, Exuberant, Rollicking Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Chains of Love
2. Sweet Sixteen
3. Honey Hush
4. TV Mama
5. Oke-She-Moke-She-Pop
6. Shake, Rattle and Roll
7. Well All Right
8. Flip Flop and Fly
9. Hide and Seek
10. Midnight Cannonball
11. The Chicken and the Hawk (Up, Up and Away)
12. Boogie Woogie Country Girl
13. Corrine Corrina
14. You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?)
15. Midnight Special Train
16. Tomorrow Night

Year Type Label Catalog # 2009 CD Rhino Flashback 72968 2008 CD Atlantic 397628 1998 CD Rhino 72968

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After Rhino Records began their series of reissues of classic blues and r&b material from the Atlantic Records vaults, they did a snappy edit, shuffle, and augmentation of Atlantic's fine Big Joe Turner's Greatest Hits, and the result was the equally superb The Very Best of Big Joe Turner. The Very Best of Big Joe Turner features 12 of the tunes which appeared on the earlier album, while adding another four (mostly leaning toward the more rollicking side of Turner's musical personality, including the gloriously lascivious "TV Mama"). While Big Joe Turner's Greatest Hits covered a bit more ground, The Very Best of Big Joe Turner is even more consistent and offers one of the great pioneering shouters of hard-rockin' r&b at his wild and raving best. Sounding at once loose and thoroughly committed, this collection is a glorious summation of what Turner did best, and these 16 recordings are the soundtrack for a memorable after-hours party just waiting to happen. If you don't already have "Shake, Rattle and Roll," "Flip, Flop and Fly," or "Honey Hush" in your collection, than The Very Best of Big Joe Turner is one disc you need to add to your library posthaste, and the typically excellent remastering and packaging from Rhino only add to the value of this disc. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide

Name Credits Ahmet Ertegun Producer Alan Swyer Author Big Joe Turner Producer Bill Inglot Producer Billy Vera Compilation, Liner Notes, Compilation Producer Dan Hersch Remastering Daniel Goldmark Editorial Research Elizabeth Pavone A&R Greg Allen Design Harry Van Walls Performer Herb Abramson Producer Hugh Brown Art Direction James Austin Project Supervisor Jennifer Mandel Project Assistant Jerry Leiber Producer Jerry Wexler Producer Lori Carfora Project Assistant Mike Stoller Producer Nesuhi Ertegun Producer Steven Chean Editorial Supervision Ted Myers A&R Thane Tierney Project Assistant