Very Best of

Joe Tex | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 19, 1996)
• Original Release Date: November 19, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000033WF
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,964 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hold What You've Got

2. You Got What It Takes

3. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show

4. I Want To (Do Everything for You)

5. A Sweet Woman Like You

6. The Love You Save (May Be Your Own)

7. S.Y.S.L.J.F.M. (The Letter Song)

8. I Believe I'm Gonna Make It

9. Papa Was Too

10. Show Me

11. Skinny Legs and All

12. Men Are Gettin' Scarce

13. Buying a Book

14. I Gotcha

15. You Said a Bad Word

16. Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gym floors were shakin' all over this land, February 7, 2001

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David Kinney (San Francisco, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

Gym floors WERE shakin' whenever the local AM disc jockey was cool enough to play Joe Tex's latest sermon. Yes brethren, I said sermon. The man was a secular preacher, marriage counseler, and hmmm? what else? oh yeah... a whole bunch of fun too! Wallflowers of both sexes left the walls and danced to 'Show Me','Skinny Legs And All',and ' One Monkey Don't Stop No Show".Joe Tex preached the gospel of the wallflower.The man (kid with pimples) with the raggeddy clothes, the woman (girl with braces) with the skinny legs. He had a great big heart that encouraged everybody to take part and have fun. Everybody. This collection does a good service to both old fans of Joe and newcomers alike. I prefer the sixties stuff myself, but I can still remember driving in my first car in 1972 and hearing "I Gotcha" coming out of the AM speakers. Got me!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It holds up well..., July 21, 2003

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beesquare (FALLS CHURCH, VA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

Yes, buy it. For the most part the songs, the guitar and horn work, and recording quality hold up and are still as catchy and humorous today as you remember them from when they were recorded. Your kids might even like some of the songs or at least listen with you once. Joe Tex was not one to fluff up his recording sessions with unnecessary violins and other elaborate orchestration; all the cuts have the immediacy of a night club performance. The album has quite a bit going for it besides just nostalgia value: the production quality of this CD seems to be a cut above many historical collections like this... kudos to Rhino on this one. Note: the lyrics are intended to be humorous, human, and down-to-earth (and they are), but some may be offended by the characterizations of women according to their physical appearance as in "Skinny Legs" and "Big Fat Woman."

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Soul, April 9, 2000

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A customer "mistermaxxx" (usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

Joe Tex has it all here.Powerful Voice,a Strong sense of Humor&Jams such as Skinny Legs&all,One Monkey Don't Stop No Show.this is Great Soul Music.a Must.