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A Headstone for Big Joe Turner Is Aim of Benefit Concert Sunday

Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 October 1991

BIG JOE Turner's powerful vocals on the original version of 'Shake, Rattle & Roll' propelled the late blues shouter into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but that honor didn't help blues pilgrim Akio Yamanaka last year.

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