"Skinny Legs and All" is a song composed and recorded by soul singer Joe Tex and released in 1967 on the Dial label in 1967.
Tex was also known as an energetic live performer whose intense dancing was often compared to the likes of Jackie Wilson and James Brown.
He later mocked a woman for similarly treating a man with "raggedy clothes" and advised the guy to do the same thing.
Tex would later tell an interviewer in 1972 that he got the inspiration to write the song while in Alabama and noticing a man arguing with his wife who was reportedly skinny and holding two bags of groceries, which frustrated her husband, causing an argument.
[4] The song was released in the spring of that year and became a top ten hit on the pop charts, reaching #10 and later going gold.