Joseph Arrington, Jr. (August 8, 1933[1]– August 13, 1982), better known as Joe Tex, was an American singer and musician who gained success in the 1960s and 1970s with his brand of Southern soul, which mixed the styles of funk, country, gospel, and rhythm and blues.
His career started after he was signed to King Records in 1955 following four wins at the Apollo Theater. Between 1955 and 1964, he struggled to find hits, and by the time he finally recorded his first hit, "Hold What You've Got" in 1964, he had recorded 30 previous singles that were deemed failures on the charts. He went on to have four million-selling hits, "Hold What You've Got" (1965), "Skinny Legs and All" (1967),[4] "I Gotcha" (1972),[5] and "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)" (1977). Joe Tex was nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame five times, most recently in 2016.
The material that the late Joe Tex cut for the Dial label was almost as influential as the Southern Soul recorded at Stax. Skinny Legs And All collects 24 of the great early sides he recorded there. Starting with 1962's Meet Me In Church and finishing with '69s Chicken Crazy, this CD takes in such lasting hits as Show Me, S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song), Hold What You've Got, Skinny Legs And All and Men Are Gettin' Scarce, with the wryly delivered lines, ''Men are gettin' scarce / Scarcer than hen's teeth / And that's mighty scarce!''
His career started after he was signed to King Records in 1955 following four wins at the Apollo Theater. Between 1955 and 1964, he struggled to find hits, and by the time he finally recorded his first hit, "Hold What You've Got" in 1964, he had recorded 30 previous singles that were deemed failures on the charts. He went on to have four million-selling hits, "Hold What You've Got" (1965), "Skinny Legs and All" (1967),[4] "I Gotcha" (1972),[5] and "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)" (1977). Joe Tex was nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame five times, most recently in 2016.
The material that the late Joe Tex cut for the Dial label was almost as influential as the Southern Soul recorded at Stax. Skinny Legs And All collects 24 of the great early sides he recorded there. Starting with 1962's Meet Me In Church and finishing with '69s Chicken Crazy, this CD takes in such lasting hits as Show Me, S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song), Hold What You've Got, Skinny Legs And All and Men Are Gettin' Scarce, with the wryly delivered lines, ''Men are gettin' scarce / Scarcer than hen's teeth / And that's mighty scarce!''
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