- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (3 hr., 4 min., 27 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Singer and songwriter Joshie Jo Armstead was born on October 8, 1944 in Yazoo City, Mississippi. From 1961 to 1963, Armstead was one of the original Ikettes in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Then, in 1964, Armstead was part of a song writing trio with Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. The trio wrote the R&B number one hit "Let's Go Get Stoned" and the follow-up single "I Don't Need No Doctor" for Ray Charles. Armstead parted ways with Ashford and Simpson in 1966, opening her own record label, Giant Productions, with her former husband. Following the label's collapse in 1970, she appeared in several Broadway shows, including HistoryMaker Melvin Van Peebles' Don't Play Us Cheap, sang backup for Bob Dylan's single "George Jackson," and continued to record solo, including the tracks "Stumblin Blocks, Steppin' Stones," "I've Been Turned On," "A Stone Good Lover" and "I Feel An Urge Coming On.".
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Joshie Jo Armstead
- Joshie Jo Armstead
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208842
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Joshie Jo Armstead.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
030427
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2016 July 15.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Songwriter.
- Added Author
Armstead, Jo, 1944- interviewee.
Cole, Harriette, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.