| "Honey Hush" | |
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| Single by Big Joe Turner | |
| B-side | "Tomorrow Night" |
| Released | August 1953 |
| Genre | Blues, rhythm and blues |
| Length | 2:25 |
| Label | Atlantic |
| Songwriter(s) | Lou Willie Turner |
| Music video | |
| "Honey Hush" on YouTube | |
"Honey Hush", is a blues song, written by Big Joe Turner (although he assigned the copyright to his wife, Lou Willie Turner), recorded in May 1953 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and released that August by Atlantic Records. It was a number-one song on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues chart for eight weeks.[1]
The single was Turner's second million-seller, following his 1951 "Chains of Love".[2]
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