Atlantic R&B Box Set No.1: Joe Morris "Anytime, Anyplace, Anywere"

ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, ANYWHERE hit the R&B "Most-played On Juke Boxes" and "Best Sellers in Stores" charts simultaneously on October 7th, 1950 and racked up a total of 22 weeks on the national popularity listings not dropping off until March 1951. So popular indeed, that when Atlantic made their initial move into pressing 45's in January 1951, ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, ANYWHERE, was one of the first to be pressed at the new speed.
All of the Laurie Tate-Joe Morris records were very popular, and "Don't Take Your Love From Me" also hit the charts. Although a consistent hit-maker, her recording career is measured in mere months. In the summer of 1951 she left the Blues Cavalcade to raise a family.
Joe Morris left Atlantic in July 1953 to work for the new Herald label, and enjoyed tremendous success with "Shake A Hand" and "I'll Be True" with band vocalist Faye Adams. Later he accompanied her on records for Lido and Imperial, and also appeared on Gene Allison's blockbuster "You Can Make It If You Try" in 1957.
He returned briefly to Atlantic in May 1957 with Louis Madison on vocals, but nothing came of this re-association with the label he had helped launch nearly ten years before.
Joe Morris died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Phoenix, Arizona November 1958. He was 36 years old, and Atlantic sponsored a benefit concert for the relief of his widow and children.