Billy Joe Royal, Country and Pop Singer, Dead at 73, Billy Joe Royal, who denticulate the 1965 Top Ten individual "Down in the Boondocks" and aswell fabricated common appearances on the country blueprint in the Eighties, died al of a sudden Tuesday morning at his Marietta, North Carolina home, according to the Tennessean. He was 73 years old.
Born April 3, 1942, in Valdosta, Georgia, Royal fabricated his singing admission at just 5 years old and becoming his aboriginal paycheck arena a New Year's Eve appearance that aswell featured Gladys Knight. By the time he was nine, he was demography animate guitar lessons, with an eye against arena in his uncle's band. Royal would go on to accomplish on the Marietta radio appearance Georgia Jubilee, area he met Joe South, the songwriter who bound both "Down in the Boondocks" and Royal's Top 20 aftereffect "I Knew You When."
Royal, who had aswell performed in the abode bandage at the Gilley's-like Bamboo Ranch in Savannah, Georgia, toured with Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars alongside Herman's Hermits, Jackie DeShannon and others, with a abetment bandage featuring approaching associates of Chicago. He hit with the Top 15 individual "Cherry Hill Park" in 1969, accumulation a few added accessory pop hits afore signing with the Atlantic characterization and absolution a amount of acknowledged country singles, including the 1985 Top 10 "Burned Like a Rocket." The singer's 1987 LP, The Royal Treatment, was certified gold and featured "I'll Pin a Note on Your Pillow," which ailing at Amount 5 on the country chart. His 1989 accommodate of the Aaron Neville hit "Tell It Like It Is" just absent the blueprint summit, landing at Amount Two. That aforementioned year, he had a additional Amount Two country individual with "Till I Can't Take It Anymore."
In 1988, Royal was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. In contempo years, he toured with longtime acquaintance and adolescent crossover artisan B.J. Thomas, absolution the 2007 LP Going by Daydreams, on Thomas's Raindrops Records label. The activity was produced by the allegorical Chips Moman. According to the Tennessean, Royal's final reside achievement took abode September 24th at the Gwinnett County Fair in his built-in Georgia.
Royal is survived by his ex-wife, Michelle Royal, babe Savannah Royal, and two stepsons, Trey and Joey Riverbank. Funeral arrange are pending.
Born April 3, 1942, in Valdosta, Georgia, Royal fabricated his singing admission at just 5 years old and becoming his aboriginal paycheck arena a New Year's Eve appearance that aswell featured Gladys Knight. By the time he was nine, he was demography animate guitar lessons, with an eye against arena in his uncle's band. Royal would go on to accomplish on the Marietta radio appearance Georgia Jubilee, area he met Joe South, the songwriter who bound both "Down in the Boondocks" and Royal's Top 20 aftereffect "I Knew You When."
Royal, who had aswell performed in the abode bandage at the Gilley's-like Bamboo Ranch in Savannah, Georgia, toured with Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars alongside Herman's Hermits, Jackie DeShannon and others, with a abetment bandage featuring approaching associates of Chicago. He hit with the Top 15 individual "Cherry Hill Park" in 1969, accumulation a few added accessory pop hits afore signing with the Atlantic characterization and absolution a amount of acknowledged country singles, including the 1985 Top 10 "Burned Like a Rocket." The singer's 1987 LP, The Royal Treatment, was certified gold and featured "I'll Pin a Note on Your Pillow," which ailing at Amount 5 on the country chart. His 1989 accommodate of the Aaron Neville hit "Tell It Like It Is" just absent the blueprint summit, landing at Amount Two. That aforementioned year, he had a additional Amount Two country individual with "Till I Can't Take It Anymore."
In 1988, Royal was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. In contempo years, he toured with longtime acquaintance and adolescent crossover artisan B.J. Thomas, absolution the 2007 LP Going by Daydreams, on Thomas's Raindrops Records label. The activity was produced by the allegorical Chips Moman. According to the Tennessean, Royal's final reside achievement took abode September 24th at the Gwinnett County Fair in his built-in Georgia.
Royal is survived by his ex-wife, Michelle Royal, babe Savannah Royal, and two stepsons, Trey and Joey Riverbank. Funeral arrange are pending.
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