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Joe Tex: Back to the grind for a bump man

Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 28 May 1977

"WHEN I had a hit with 'Skinny Legs And All' I had a lot of hassles from women's libbers," recalled a hoarse Joe Tex on a transatlantic line from Mobile, Alabama. "So, I used to hold a contest in my stage act to give 25 dollars to the woman with the skinniest legs."

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