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Yusuf Hazziez (Joe Tex) was born Joseph Arrington Jr in Rogers, Texas, on August 8, 1935. At High School he played saxophone in a school band and also sang in a Church choir. In the mid-fifties he was singing in a group called The Sunbeams.

"Yum Yum" was recorded in New Orleans in 1959 for Ace Records using Little Richard’s backing band and featuring Allen Toussaint on organ. Until he started having hits he regularly opened shows for Jackie Wilson, James Brown and Little Richard.

His long association with Dial Records, mostly distributed by Atlantic, started in 1961, but the first successful recording was “Hold What You’ve Got” (1965, Dial 8106), which made No. 2 in the US R&B Chart, and which had been recorded at Fame, Muscle Shoals.

Joe Tex died at Grimes Memorial Hospital in Navasota of a heart attack on August 13, 1982. He has been nominated for inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.

He was associated for a long time with the country music producer and publisher Buddy Killen (born Florence, Alabama, 13 November 1932, died from cancer in Nashville, Tennessee, 1 November 2006).

Image: Ace Records

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