Tex (Joe)

Rare cover for the 12" vinyl copy of the album I've Got to Do a Little Bit Better, signed by Joe Tex in ballpoint ink, light creasing and wear, record is not included.

***Yusuf Hazziez (born Joseph Arrington Jr.), known professionally as Joe Tex, was an American singer and musician who gained success in the 1960s and 1970s with his brand of Southern soul, which mixed the styles of funk, country, gospel, and rhythm and blues.

His career started after he was signed to King Records in 1955 following four wins at the Apollo Theater. Between 1955 and 1964, he struggled to find hits, and by the time he finally recorded his first hit, "Hold What You've Got" in 1964, he had recorded 30 previous singles that were deemed failures on the charts. He went on to have four million-selling hits, "Hold What You've Got" (1965), "Skinny Legs and All" (1967), "I Gotcha" (1972),^[ and "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)" (1977) Joe Tex was nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame six times, most recently in 2017.