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