Höchstplatzierung, Gesamtwochen, Auszeichnung Chartplatzierungen Chartplatzierungen 1998 fand sein Album Stay Close to Home nochmal die Beachtung eines breiteren Publikums.ĭiskografie Alben Jahr In den 1990er Jahren ließ das Interesse an seiner Musik wieder nach, da sein von der Popmusik beeinflusster Country-Stil nicht mehr angesagt war und der neo-traditionelle, klassische Countrysound wieder in Mode kam. Er schaffte dabei ein Comeback mit mehreren Top-10-Hits in den Country-Charts, unter anderem Tell It Like It Is, Burned Like a Rocket, und I’ll Pin a Note on Your Pillow. Obwohl Royal nie an die alten Erfolge anknüpfen konnte, bekam seine Karriere einen neuen Schub, als er in den 1980er Jahren ins Country-Fach wechselte. In den 1970er Jahren war er mit Elvis Presley befreundet, der ebenfalls in Las Vegas gastierte. ![]() Ende der 1960er Jahre trat er regelmäßig in Las Vegas auf und hatte auch kleinere Engagements als Schauspieler, hauptsächlich jedoch in Werbespots und in kleineren Fernsehrollen. Seine Single Cherry Hill Park erreichte 1969 Platz 15 in den Billboard Hot 100. In der Highschool hatte er dann im Alter von 16 seine eigene Rock’-n’-Roll- Band.īekannt wurde er mit dem Top-Ten-Hit Down in the Boondocks (1965), der, wie auch die Singles I Knew You When (Top 20, 1965) und Hush (1967), von Joe South geschrieben und produziert wurde. Sein Debüt gab er mit elf Jahren in einer Radio-Show seines Onkels. Schon als Kind, nachdem er Elvis Presley in der Tommy Dorsey Show gesehen hatte, der ebenfalls verschiedene Stile wie Pop, Country und R&B vermischte, fühlte er, dass er mit Musik seinen Lebensunterhalt verdienen wollte. You borrow a little bit from everybody and then add your own individual touch along the way. They’d come into town and then I’d do their songs after they left. “I’ve had the fortunate opportunity to work with a lot of great singers over the years. “I really think your musical identity is obtained when you’re young,” says the Georgia Music Hall of Fame inductee. Royal continues to make his mark in country music with a self-proclaimed “hodge-podge” of influences and over a dozen singles including, “I’ll Pin A Note On Your Pillow,” “Tell It Like It Is” and “Till I Can’t Take It Anymore.” It became a Top Ten country single and started a whole new career for me.” It struggled for about half a year on an independent label until Atlantic Records picked it up. So I moved back to Georgia, started coming to Nashville and eventually cut the country single, Burned Like A Rocket. ![]() “I was working and still doing okay financially after the pop career slowed down,” Royal says. Royal released nine pop singles from 1965–1978 including, “I Knew You When,” “I’ve Got To Be Somebody” and “Cherry Hill Park.” Here I was touring with all these wonderful people that I’d heard on the radio and all of a sudden we were becoming friends. “We did a show every night for 3 months straight with stars like Tom Jones, Neil Diamond and The Shirelles. ”The first thing I did of any consequence after Boondocks hit is tour with ‘The Dick ClarkCavalcade of Stars,’” Royal says. It was just a great place to learn and develop your voice.”Īfter releasing a few local singles that failed to take off, Royal became a hot national commodity with the Joe South penned tune, “Down In The Boondocks.” We had some big name R&B and country acts play there like Roy Orbison, Fats Domino, The Isley Brothers, Sam Cooke, Ray Price, Marty Robbins and George Jones. “We played six nights a week, five hours a night. When the Georgia Jubilee broke up, Royal landed a job at the Bamboo Ranch in Savannah, Ga. Royal appeared on his uncle’s radio show in his hometown of Valdosta, Ga., at the age of eleven.īy fourteen, Royal became a regular on the Friday night Atlanta-based radio show, “Georgia Jubilee,” with the likes of Ray Stevens, Jerry Reed, Joe South, Freddy Weller and various Grand Ole Opry stars. You’d get a country thing during the afternoon, then black gospel until sundown and at night you’d get rhythm and blues. And the local radio stations would play three or four different formats a day. “My uncle had a band, my grandmother played, my whole family played. ”I was really lucky to always be around music as a kid,” Royal says. ![]() Royal grew up in a musical family and listened to a variety of styles on the Georgia radio stations. ”I never thought I was going to have another hit record,” says Royal, who will perform at the Little Nashville Opry in Nashville, Indiana, on Saturday, March 20 at 8 p.m. Billy Joe Royal at Little Nashville Opry March 20īy Tamela Meredith Partridge When Billy Joe Royal recorded the 1965 debut pop hit, “Down In The Boondocks,” the Georgia singer/songwriter had no idea he’d top the country charts twenty years later with the 1985 smash, “Burn Like A Rocket.”
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