Joe Turner

For the ice hockey player see Joe Turner

Big Joe Turner (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues singer from Kansas City, Missouri. Although he came to his greatest fame in the 1950s with his

For the ice hockey player see Joe Turner

Big Joe Turner (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American blues singer from Kansas City, Missouri. Although he came to his greatest fame in the 1950s with his pioneering rock and roll recordings, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", Turner's career as a performer stretched from the 1930s into the 1980s.