Junior Walker & the All-Stars

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1991

First Recording: 1965

Previously Considered? Yes  what's this?

Junior Walker & the All-Stars
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
✅Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys
✅500 Songs That Shaped Rock & Roll

Inducted Single: 2020 - "Shotgun" (1965)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Shotgun (1965)☆☊
(I'm a) Road Runner (1966)☆☊
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) (1966)☆☊
What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) (1969)☆☊

Junior Walker & the All-Stars @ Wikipedia

Will Junior Walker & the All-Stars be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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Agree, it is a disgrace not to have included Jnr, other sax players get me yawning by comparison and to compare Kenny G on the same level, give me a break! Jnr Walker brought life and excitement into sax playing with soul and the Motown sound. It his influence along with Dozier and Holland that drew me to this instrument especially with the Baritone sax on Motown tracks.

Jnr Walker stands above them all, who ever they are, can not say I recognise anyone in the list or heard of them before and there is a reason for that......zzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Posted by Carl on Saturday, 11/29/2014 @ 14:23pm

Hi all. To get Junior Walker and the All Stars considered for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, please write a letter nominating him and stating why you think he deserves the achievement. The address to send the letter to is:
Rock and Roll Foundation
750 Lexington Avenue
9th Floor
NY, NY 10022
Attention: Nomination Committee

My parents used to go see Junior Walker and the All Stars at the Howard Theater when I was a baby. I had heard of him but never knew who he was. This past Christmas of 2019, I was watching a Motown Infommercial and I saw a snipet of Junior Walker singing "What Does It Take." I was mesmerized. I went to the internet and u-tube to research him and I have become a huge fan. Although I am only 54 years old, I would have loved to see him perform live before he died in 1995. He definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. To get him inducted in the class of 2021 would be awesome seeing his 90th birthday is coming up in June 2021.

Just to see him in action with the tenor sax was incredible and to know not only did he play the sax, he sang and he was a song writer. Also, his band traveled the world to play music. I read somewhere on utube that at one of his UK performances, while playing his sax, he blew a light out. Now that is incredible!

Instead of complaining on blogs about why he is not in the hall of fame, I am going to write a letter to the Nominating Committee. If you are serious, please consider too.

Posted by Jacqueline on Thursday, 01/16/2020 @ 14:07pm

I am hurt! To the bottom of my heart ♥. They are the main reason we danced to the Motown sound in the 1960s and 1970s. What are they thinking!?

Posted by Jerry Handy on Sunday, 02/19/2023 @ 17:58pm

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