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Joseph Arrington, Jr. (August 8, 1933 – August 13, 1982), better known as "Joe Tex", was an American Southern soul singer-songwriter, most popular during the 1960s and 1970s. His style of speaking over music, which he called 'rap', made him a predecessor of the modern style of music.
Born in Baytown, Texas, Tex was subsequently raised in the Central Texas town of Rogers. His professional career as a singer began onstage at the Apollo. He won first place in a 1954 talent contest and duly secured a record deal.
His early releases on King Records, Ace and Anna Records were considered by some to be derivative and were generally disappointing in terms of sales. Tex released thirty singles in the first ten years of his recording career, never once hitting the Hot 100. However, after James Brown's cover version of Tex's "Baby You're Right" became a US number 2 hit in 1962, Tex was signed to Dial Records by Nashville, Tennessee-based record producer Buddy Killen, and his career turned around.
Tex prospered under Killen's guidance. Tex's first hit recording was 1965's "Hold What You've Got", recorded at the FAME studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and distributed by Atlantic on Killen's Dial record label. "Hold What You've Got" spent 11 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #5, and sold a million copies by 1966.
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Genres: Music, Romance,Well, hello there,
My it's been a long, long, long time
How am I doin',
Oh, I guess that I?m doin' fine
It's been so long now and it seems that
It was only yesterday
Gee, ain't it funny how time slips so
How's your new love,
I hope that he's doin' fine
Heard you told him,
That you'd love him till the end of time
Now, that's the same thing
That you told me
Seems like just the other day
Gee, ain't it funny how time slips away
Gotta go now,
Guess, I?ll see you hanging round
Don't know when though,
Never know when I?ll be back in town
But remember what I tell you
That in time your gonna pay
And it's surprisin' how time slips away
Yes, my dear you'd better remember
What I tell you that in time,
In time your gonna pay