Big Joe Turner - Most Famous Recordings

Most Famous Recordings

• "Roll 'Em Pete" (1938) (available in many versions over the years. Used for the million-dollar first scene in Spike Lee's film, Malcolm X)
• "Chains Of Love" (1951) † (this was Turner's first million seller. The song was written by 'Nugetre' (words) and Van "Piano Man" Walls (music), and the disc reached the million sales mark by 1954)
• "Honey Hush" (1953) † (Turner's second million-seller through the years, written by Turner it was credited to Lou Willie Turner)
• "Shake, Rattle and Roll" (1954)
• "Flip Flop and Fly" (1955) † (has sold a million through the years. The song was written by Charles Calhoun and Turner, although credited to the latter's wife, Lou Willie Turner)
• "Cherry Red" (1956)
• "Corrine, Corrina" (1956) † (his fourth million seller; with adaption by J. Mayo Williams, Mitchell Parish and Bo Chatmon in 1932. This disc reached No. 41, and spent 10 weeks in the Billboard record chart)
• "Wee Baby Blues" (1956) (a song Turner had been singing since his Kingfish Club days)
• "Love Roller Coaster" (1956), with new lyrics to the Kansas City classic, "Morning Glory".
• "Midnight Special" (1957)

Tracks marked as † were million selling discs.