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15. Juli 2016 · Joshie Jo Armstead. Biography. Digital Archive. Singer and songwriter Joshie Jo Armstead was born on October 8, 1944 in Yazoo City, Mississippi to Wilton Armstead and Rosie Lee Armstead. As a youth, she sang in the church choir and was introduced to blues music by her grandfather.
Josephine Armstead (born October 8, 1944), also known as "Joshie" Jo Armstead, is an American soul singer and songwriter. Armstead began her career singing backing vocals for blues musician Bobby "Blue" Bland before becoming an Ikette in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the early 1960s.
30. Apr. 2021 · Armstead’s verve and flair made her a sought-after session vocalist during the 1960s and 1970s, from infusing Ashford & Simpson’s production of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” for Diana Ross with...
- The Chitlin’ Circuit
- Let’s Get Stoned
- Closet Inspiration
- Burt Bacharach and Northern Soul
I know you were in the Ikettes with Robbie Montgomery and Jessie Smith, but who was in the initial lineup with you? When I got with the group, it was Eloise Hester and Delores Johnson. It’s Delores doing the lead on “I’m Blue (The Gong Gong Song)” (1961). Eloise, Tina, and myself are singing background. “I’m Blue” was written from one gig to the ot...
What do you attribute to the fact that it’s been adopted by all of those bands? I think it’s the structure. What Valerie was doing has a lot to do with that, in terms of musicians liking that song. There’s a lot there. It’s a funky song. I hear it a little bit slower. I hear it more like John Mayer’s version, which is different. Not too long after ...
What led to your role in Melvin’s Don’t Play Us Cheap!(1972)? I think we exchanged numbers. He asked me to come in for the audition and I got the role. Melvin shot the film of Don’t Play Us Cheap!first. That was his way of rehearsing for the play … and his way of making a dollar work! He had found an abandoned convent in Santa Fe that was like a do...
You sang for some amazing producers, including Burt Bacharach. I’d love to know how you became a featured vocalist on one of his solo albums, Futures(1977). Burt heard a commercial that I had done for CARE, [sings]“Send your dollars now to CARE and there’ll be one less hungry child in the world. Tomorrow …” He called. He told me that he’d heard tha...
Jo Armstead has had a long and distinguished career in the music business. She started out as an Ikette in the early 60s before going solo in New York cutting for Infinity in 1965. But she was an expert songwriter as well as singer, penning songs for the great Big Maybelle, Tina Britt and Betty Everett as well as Ray Charles, including "Let's ...
B. Josephine Armstead, 8 October 1944, Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA. A former member of the Ikettes, she sang on the 1962 US Top 20 pop hit ‘I’m Blue (The Gong-Gong ...
'Joshie' Jo Armstead was born in Mississipi in 1944. In 1961, Joshie joined the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, along with Eloise Hester and Delores Johnson, and became one of the Ikettes. The following year she sang on their Top 20 hit, 'I'm Blue (The Gong Gong Song)', for the Atco imprint.
