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((Infobox song
| name       = Honey Hush
| cover      = joe turner honey hush.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Big Joe Turner]]
| album      =
| B-side     = Tomorrow Night
| released   = ((Start date|1953|08))
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Blues]], [[rhythm and blues]]
| length     = ((Duration|m=2|s=25))
| label      = [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]]
| writer     = Lou Willie Turner
| producer   =
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title =
| next_year  = 
| misc       = ((External music video|((YouTube|wLYkj2MDS6E|"Honey Hush"))))
))

'''"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 (magazine)|''Billboard's'']] [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|Rhythm and Blues chart]] for eight weeks.<ref name="first">
((cite book
| last1 = Dawson
| first1 = Jim
| authorlink1= Jim Dawson
| last2 = Propes
| first2 = Steve
| authorlink2=Steve Propes
| title = What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record
| year = 1992
| location = London
| publisher = [[Faber and Faber]]
| isbn = 0-571-12939-0
| pages = 118–120
))</ref>

The single was Turner's second million-seller, following his 1951 "[[Chains of Love (Ahmet Ertegun song)|Chains of Love]]".<ref name="murrells">((cite book| author= Joseph Murrells| year= 1978| title= The Book of Golden Discs| edition= 2nd| publisher= [[Barrie & Jenkins]]| page= [https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/57 57]| isbn= 0-214-20512-6| url= https://archive.org/details/bookofgoldendisc00murr/page/57))</ref>
==Recording==
Turner, a big [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] [[blues shouter]], had been spending all of his time out on the road, while Atlantic's [[Ahmet Ertegun]] was getting nervous that his backlog of Turner recordings was running low. When Turner was near New Orleans, Ertegun insisted that he make some recordings. Atlantic's New Orleans recording studio was fully booked, so Turner recorded some sides in the studio of local radio station [[WDSU]]. He did not have his own band, but was able to round up the trombonist [[Pluma Davis]] and his band, the Rockers, as well as the [[boogie-woogie|boogie]] rhythm pianist, James Tolliver.<ref name="first"/> Other musicians on the recording included Dimes Dupont on [[alto saxophone]] and Warren Hebrew on [[tenor saxophone]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/honey-hush-mt0006657728|title=Honey Hush - Big Joe Turner - Song Info|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=October 10, 2017))</ref>

==Lyrics==
Like the session, the song is largely adlibbed [[traditional blues verses]] with various incongruous lines thrown in, to a standard [[12-bar blues]]. It opens with the bold statement, "Aw let 'em roll like a big wheel in a Georgia cotton field, Honey hush!"  The title in this song Turner revealed his typical attitude toward a woman who will not do what he tells her to do, while the tailgate trombone gives the woman's raucous answers back. Although his songs talk about relationships as misery, his emotion in the song is upbeat. To quote [[Arnold Shaw (author)|Arnold Shaw]] in his book ''Honkers and Shouters'':<ref name="shaw">((cite book
| first= Arnold
| last= Shaw
| authorlink = Arnold Shaw (author)
| title= Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues
| url= https://archive.org/details/honkersshouterst00shaw
| url-access= registration
| year= 1978
| location= New York
| publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers (United States)|Macmillan Publishers]]
| pages= [https://archive.org/details/honkersshouterst00shaw/page/45 45–49]
| isbn= 0-02-061740-2
))</ref>
((quote|"Love ain't nothin' but a lot of misery," he would declare, exhibiting no emotion in his characterization of the female as demanding, unprediciable, and untrustworthy. But unlike his predecessors in the blues, he did not cry or get uptight over it.))

The spirit of the song is the good-natured optimism that characterized his work.<ref name="gillett">((cite book
| first = Charlie
| last = Gillett
| year = 1996
| title = The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
| edition = 2nd.
| location = New York City
| publisher= [[Da Capo Press]]
| pages= 128–129, 165
| isbn= 0-306-80683-5
))</ref> His lyrics are sexually suggestive and aimed at an adult audience and his vocal style is that of an urban blues shouter((snd))intimate and relaxed.<ref name="keil">((cite book
| first = Charles
| last = Keil
| title = Urban Blues
| url = https://archive.org/details/urbanblues0000keil
| url-access = registration
| year = 2014
| edition = 
| location = Chicago
| publisher = [[University of Chicago Press]]
| pages= [https://archive.org/details/urbanblues0000keil/page/61 61]–64, 100–101
| isbn= 978-0-226-42960-1
))</ref>

((poemquote|Come in this house, stop all that yakkety yak (2×)
Come fix my supper, don't want no [[Dissent|talkin' back]]
Well you keep on [[Babbling|jabberin']], talk about this and that (2×)
I got news for you, baby,  you ain't nothin' but an [[Feral cat|alley cat]]
Well you keep on jabberin', talk about this and that ( 2×)
Don't make me nervous, 'cause I'm holding a [[baseball bat]]
Hi-yo, hi-yo, Silver))

The final lyric is a reference to the "Hi-Yo Silver!" trope popularised by the ''[[The Lone Ranger (TV series)|Lone Ranger]]'' television series, that aired on the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC Television]] network from 1949 to 1957.

==Legacy==
The advent of [[rock and roll]] narrowed the content of songs to adolescent preoccupations and made simple the complicated rhythms of [[rhythm and blues]]. The explicitly sexual content was too adult, as was the singer's strong voice tone as well as his raw assumptions about life. A year later, in 1954, a Turner song very similar to this one, "[[Shake, Rattle and Roll]]," with its boogie-woogie rhythm and squawking saxophone was cleaned up by [[Bill Haley]] to become a hit as rock and roll changed the face of music. Turner turned to recording songs by rock and roll writers, but his blues shouter voice betrayed him and his career faded.<ref name="gillett"/>

However, not long after the rock and roll craze hit, a new audience of intellectuals, college students, and eventually beatniks,  and then another with European blues fans joining in, gave singers in partial retirement or obscurity new opportunities although they had to clean up some to fit the new role of authenticity, fueled by the writings of [[Samuel Charters]], demanded by these new audiences. For urban blues singers, having grown up in cities, it was convenient to be labelled as country singers to fit the criteria of purity.<ref name="keil"/>

In 1959, Turner re-recorded "a much tamer, lamer, teenage rock'n'roll version"<ref name="first"/> of "Honey Hush" for Atlantic which was a mild hit and his last one. Turner returned to performing with jazz combos as the rock and roll founders settled in to please the suddenly important teenage market.<ref name="roll">((cite book
| last1 = DeCurtis
| first1 = Anthony 
| last2 = Henke 
| first2 = James
| year=1980
| title= The RollingStone: The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and Their Music
| edition = 3rd.
| location = New York City
| publisher = [[Random House]]
| isbn= 0-679-73728-6
| page= 48
))</ref>

==Covers==
((refimprove-section|date=January 2021))
* An early cover was the 1956 version by [[Johnny Burnette]]'s [[The Rock and Roll Trio|Rock and Roll Trio]].<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/961719|title=The Johnny Burnette Trio - The Train Kept A-Rollin'|access-date=May 30, 2021|website=45cat.com))</ref>
* In 1965 [[Chuck Berry]] recorded his version for [[Chess Records]].((citation needed|date=May 2021))
* In 1981 [[Elvis Costello]] recorded  a high-tempo version in [[Nashville]], which appears on ''[[Almost Blue]]'', an album of [[country music|country]] covers.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/almost-blue-mw0000653809|title = Almost Blue - Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello & the Attractions &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|website = [[AllMusic]]))</ref>
* In 1999 [[Paul McCartney]] recorded a version which appeared on ''[[Run Devil Run (album)|Run Devil Run]]'', a covers album with [[David Gilmour]], [[Ian Paice]] and others.<ref>((Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/run-devil-run-mw0000249778 |title=Run Devil Run - Paul McCartney |access-date=May 30, 2021|website=[[AllMusic]]))</ref>

The song has been covered by — among many others — [[Jerry Lee Lewis]], [[Albert King]],  [[Robert Nighthawk]], [[Screaming Lord Sutch]], [[Foghat]], [[Coco Montoya]], [[Fleetwood Mac]] (on the album [[Kiln House]], listed as "Hi Ho Silver"), [[George Jones]], [[Elvis Costello]], [[Jools Holland]] (on his album ''The Informer''.<ref>((cite web|url=http://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/the-informer-consider-thesource|title=The Informer/Consider The Source - Record Collector Magazine|website=Recordcollectormag.com|access-date=October 10, 2017))</ref>), [[NRBQ]], and [[JLT (John Lindberg Trio)|John Lindberg Trio]].((citation needed|date=May 2021))

==References==
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[[Category:1953 singles]]
[[Category:Big Joe Turner songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Big Joe Turner]]
[[Category:Atlantic Records singles]]

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