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unusual facts about Roll 'Em Pete


Roll 'Em Pete

While in New York, Turner and Johnson signed with the Vocalion record company, recording the 12-bar blues "Roll 'Em Pete" on December 30, 1938.


Blues shouter

Big Joe Turner — whose style hardly changed at all between 1938's "Roll 'Em Pete", and 1954's "Shake, Rattle and Roll" — Turner was arguably the greatest exponent of the art.

Roll 'n Rocker

The device was designed for the player to step on the Roll 'n Rocker and control the D-pad with the player's feet.


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