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Tony Joe White

1943 - 2018

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Tony Joe White (July 23, 1943 – October 24, 2018), nicknamed the Swamp Fox, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but which was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote "Steamy Windows" and "Undercover Agent for the Blues", both hits for Tina Turner in 1989; those two songs came by way of Turner's producer at the time, Mark Knopfler, who was a friend of White. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tony Joe White has received more than 1,158,502 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Tony Joe White is the 1,016th most popular musician (up from 1,033rd in 2019), the 4,976th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,110th in 2019) and the 362nd most popular American Musician.

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  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Tony Joe White ranks 1,016 out of 2,662. Before him are Al Jardine, Paul Simonon, Phil Woods, Arif Mardin, Geoff Emerick, and Adrien-François Servais. After him are Mike Mangini, Jimmy Cobb, János Starker, Tony Visconti, Jason Becker, and Dave Lombardo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Tony Joe White ranks 325. Before him are József Csatári, Charles Hallahan, Erika Steinbach, Serge Lama, Tariq Ali, and Dante Ferretti. After him are Juan Giménez, Dagmar Lassander, Ling Liong Sik, Mike Bloomfield, António Simões, and Lyudmila Bragina. Among people deceased in 2018, Tony Joe White ranks 231. Before him are Shehu Shagari, Hans Günter Winkler, Marty Balin, Anneke Grönloh, Abbas, and Geoff Emerick. After him are Connie Sawyer, Edgar Hilsenrath, Evelyn Berezin, Michael Harner, Stanley Cavell, and Nelson Pereira dos Santos.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tony Joe White ranks 4,976 out of 18,182. Before him are Hedda Hopper (1885), Alice Pike Barney (1857), Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), Sam Jaffe (1891), Richard Carpenter (1946), and Maxie Long (1878). After him are Mike Mangini (1963), Jimmy Cobb (1929), Chris Hughes (1983), Melanie (1947), David Starr Jordan (1851), and Frank Muller (1862).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Tony Joe White ranks 362. Before him are Tommy Johnson (1896), Barry Harris (1929), Floyd Council (1911), Hugh McDonald (1950), Al Jardine (1942), and Phil Woods (1931). After him are Mike Mangini (1963), Jimmy Cobb (1929), Tony Visconti (1944), Jason Becker (1969), Ludacris (1977), and David Sanborn (1945).

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