Get Way Back: The 1950s Recordings [Import]

Joe Tex | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Ace Records UK
• ASIN: B001CDF03G
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #384,242 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Davy You Upset My Home

2. Come In This House

3. Another Man's Woman

4. My Biggest Mistake

5. Right Back To My Arms

6. I Had To Come Back To You

7. She's Mine

8. Get Way Back

9. Pneumonia

10. I Want To Have A Talk With You

11. Ain't Nobody's Business

12. Cut It Out

13. Put Your Confidence In Me

14. Open The Door

15. Just For You And Me

16. You Little Baby Face Thing

17. Mother's Advice

18. Charlie Brown Got Expelled

19. Blessed Are These Tears

20. Yum, Yum, Yum

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Joe Tex finally hit the charts in 1965 with Hold What You've Got - but he'd already been trying to make it on record for a full decade.

Get Way Back brings you - for the first time on one CD - the recordings that Joe made in the first five years of his career, for King and the American Ace label.

Here are 27 cuts that embrace New York rock 'n' roll and New Orleans R&B that point the way to the great soul singer that Joe would become in the 60s.

All of the tracks used here are the original singles masters, unlike previous CD reissues of some of the songs, which have been presented as alternate takes. Many of the tracks have not been reissued on CD (or any other format) before.

As well as some great music on the disc, the CD booklet contains several previously-unpublished photographs from Joe's first ever recording session in September 1955.

Much of the humor of many of his later hits has its origins in these recordings. It's very easy to see and hear from these great tracks that Joe was eventually going to be a star when the time was right.