#JCKaelin: Often cited as the #FirstRockAndRollSong!
#OTD #TDIH #June14, 1969: #DOTD: #RIP #WynonieHarris. #PioneersOfRockAndRoll #Singers #BluesShouters #Blues #JumpBlues #RAndB #RNB #RhythmNBlues #RockAndRoll #RockNRoll #OriginsOfRockAndRoll #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDIH #June8, 1972 #RIP #JimmyRushing. #MrFiveByFive #BluesShouters #BluesSingers #JazzSingers #SwingSingers #Pianists #CountBasie #OklahomaCity #Blues #Swing #SwingMusic #Jazz #Music #AmericanMusic #GreatSingers #JazzSky #BluesSky #MusicSky
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#OTD #TDIH #May18, 1911 #HBD #BigJoeTurner! #JoeTurner #BossOfTheBlues #PioneersOfRockAndRoll #BluesShouters #Jazz #Blues #JumpBlues #RAndB #RNB #RockAndRoll #RockNRoll #OriginsOfRockAndRoll #KansasCitySound #PeteJohnson #MusicSky
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The song that turned my dad into a rock & roller!
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Joe Turner was the father figure for all of the 1940s and 1950s rhythm & blues shouters. He honed his craft in the bars and night clubs of Kansas City during the late 1920s and 1930s, and by the the time he appeared in the 1938 "From Spirituals to Swing" concert at Carnegie Hall and made his […]

#OTD #TDIH #November24, 1985 #DOTD: #RIP #BigJoeTurner. #JoeTurner #BossOfTheBlues #PioneersOfRockAndRoll #BluesShouters #Jazz #Blues #JumpBlues #RAndB #RNB #RockAndRoll #RockNRoll #OriginsOfRockAndRoll #KansasCitySound #PeteJohnson
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#OTD #TDIH #November24, 1985 #DOTD: #RIP #BigJoeTurner. #JoeTurner #BossOfTheBlues #PioneersOfRockAndRoll #BluesShouters #Jazz #Blues #JumpBlues #RAndB #RNB #RockAndRoll #RockNRoll #OriginsOfRockAndRoll #KansasCitySound #ShakeRattleAndRoll
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