![]() but in this episode, you will find an important update on my next music video. so soon I will be making an announcement on the socials about the release date for the first single off my upcoming EP, but for now, you guys still know ahead of everywhere else online that I will be releasing the first single off my next EP on 10/19. Hey Guys! hope you are all doing well out there. then I'm going to talk about the history behind the group or artist that did the song and talk about the behind the scenes industry people and places that helped make it a hit (writers and producers, session musicians and band members and recording studios and chart positions, etc.) I will occasionally interview industry people from back then either over the phone or in person to give you a better glimpse of how the business worked back then and how much has changed since then, and to educate younger people on their careers and the songs they made famous to the people listening that may not be familiar with their music at all first half is going to be my perspective and my opinion on the song and why I think it's so good or why I don't think it's so great. Each week I"m going to review one song by one artist from the 60's and split the podcast into two halfs. the goal with this podcast is to educate a younger generation on one of the greatest decades of music of all time, and to prove to people that Millennials can love 60's music as well and it's not just for Baby boomers. I had to stick to it because I’ve never done anything else.This podcast is going to be all about 60's music. “The old voice has stood up, you know.” He added: “The other thing is, this is all I’ve ever done. “I say this with all humility,” he said on his website. Royal toured regularly in recent years, often with B. ![]() He is survived by a daughter, Savannah Royal two stepsons, Trey and Joe Rivenbark his mother, Mary Royal and a brother, Jack. Royal’s three marriages ended in divorce. In the 1970s he performed regularly at resorts in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe, Calif. ![]() Royal was invited to join the Dick Clark Caravan of Stars, a package tour that included the Turtles, the Shirelles, Peter and Gordon, and Tom Jones. Royal to a contract.Īfter the success of “Down in the Boondocks,” Mr. Bill Lowery, a well-connected music producer and publisher in Atlanta, heard the record and brought it to Columbia, which signed Mr. South asked him to make a demonstration record of “Down in the Boondocks,” which he hoped to sell to Gene Pitney. He was singing at a Cincinnati nightclub, Guys and Dolls, when Mr. Royal formed a rock band, the Corvettes, in high school and was later hired to perform at the Bamboo Ranch in Savannah, Ga., an enormous dance hall that booked top country and soul acts. “When he made it so big, all us Southern boys thought maybe we had a shot, too,” he said in an interview posted on his website. The success of Elvis Presley galvanized him. He began singing in grade school, learned to play steel guitar and was soon performing with his uncle’s country-and-western band on local radio. ![]() He followed up with “ I’ll Pin a Note to Your Pillow,” a cover version of the Aaron Neville hit “ Tell It Like It Is” and others.īilly Joe Royal was born on April 3, 1942, in Valdosta, Ga., and grew up in Marietta, near Atlanta. As a gesture of respect, D.J.s stopped playing the song. Royal turned out a steady stream of country hits, beginning with “ Burned Like a Rocket,” which reached the country Top 10 in 1985 and was climbing when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. In the 1980s, after signing with Atlantic Records in Nashville, Mr. South, “ Hush” and “ I Knew You When,” and ended the decade in the Top 20 with “ Cherry Hill Park” (1969). He hit the charts with two other songs by Mr.
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