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Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr., May 18, 1911 November 24, 1985 was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, “Rock and roll would have never happened without him. Although he came to his greatest fame in the 1950s with his pioneering rock and roll recordings, particularly “Shake, Rattle and Roll”, Turner’s career as a performer stretched from the 1920s into the 1980s.”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).