Big Joe Turner
#136,982
Most Influential Person
American blues shouter
Why Is Big Joe Turner Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. was an American singer from Kansas City, Missouri. According to songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." His greatest fame was due to his rock-and-roll recordings in the 1950s, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", but his career as a performer endured from the 1920s into the 1980s.
