Photos:
-Left: Joshie Jo Armstead today.
-Top Right: Joshie as an Ikette on the far right.
-Middle Right: Joshie and Tina Turner reunite.
-Bottom Right: Joshie with Ashford & Simpson at Scepter Records, 1964.
JOSHIE JO ARMSTEAD Interviewed by CHRISTINE OHLMAN Music Oral History
2PM
Soul music Renaissance woman, Joshie Jo Armstead, former Ikette (with Ike & Tina Turner—she appeared on the smash “I’m Blue"); recording artist (“I Feel An Urge Coming On”); label owner; hit songwriter for, among others, Ray Charles (“Let’s Go Get Stoned” and “I Don’t Need No Doctor” with Ashford & Simpson) Aretha Franklin (“Cry Like A Baby"), Syl Johnson (“Come On Sock It To Me”); Broadway collaborator (with Melvin Van Peebles) and so much more.
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