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Get Way Back: The 1950s Recordings
Joe Tex
Get Way Back: The 1950s Recordings
Genres: Pop, R&B
 
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Joe Tex finally hit the charts in 1965 with Hold What You've Got - but he'd already been trying to make it on record for a full decade.Get Way Back brings you - for the first time on one CD - the recordings that Joe made i...  more »

     
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All Artists: Joe Tex
Title: Get Way Back: The 1950s Recordings
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Ace Records UK
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 9/9/2008
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, R&B
Styles: Oldies, Classic R&B, Soul
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 029667034128, 0029667034128

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Joe Tex finally hit the charts in 1965 with Hold What You've Got - but he'd already been trying to make it on record for a full decade.Get Way Back brings you - for the first time on one CD - the recordings that Joe made in the first five years of his career, for King and the American Ace label.Here are 27 cuts that embrace New York rock 'n' roll and New Orleans R&B that point the way to the great soul singer that Joe would become in the 60s.All of the tracks used here are the original singles masters, unlike previous CD reissues of some of the songs, which have been presented as alternate takes. Many of the tracks have not been reissued on CD (or any other format) before.As well as some great music on the disc, the CD booklet contains several previously-unpublished photographs from Joe's first ever recording session in September 1955.Much of the humor of many of his later hits has its origins in these recordings. It's very easy to see and hear from these great tracks that Joe was eventually going to be a star when the time was right.