According to the Tennessean, Royal’s final live performance took place September 24th at the Gwinnett County Fair in his native Georgia. The project was produced by the legendary Chips Moman. The first hit song that was used in a commercial before it was released as a single was Id Like To Teach The World To Sing, which was written for a Coke. Thomas, releasing the 2007 LP Going by Daydreams, on Thomas’s Raindrops Records label. In recent years, he toured with longtime friend and fellow crossover artist B.J. In 1988, Royal was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. That same year, he had a second Number Two country single with “Till I Can’t Take It Anymore.” His 1989 remake of the Aaron Neville hit “Tell It Like It Is” just missed the chart summit, landing at Number Two. He hit with the Top 15 single “Cherry Hill Park” in 1969, garnering a few more minor pop hits before signing with the Atlantic label and releasing a number of successful 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 peaked at Number Five on the country chart. I had to stick to it because I’ve never done anything else.Royal, who had also performed in the house band 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 backing band featuring future members of Chicago. “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. 2018 Billy Hargrove X Reader I dont know Billy Hargrove/Reader (5). Royal toured regularly in recent years, often with B. Request I would love like a Billy Hargroves friend whos like an older. This smash was followed by a string of other Joe South-penned hits, I Knew You When (1965), Ive Got To Be Somebody (1965), Hearts Desire (1966), and. 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. According to reports, he passed away quietly in his sleep. The Valdosta, Georgia native and world renown singer was 73-years-old. The 'boy from down in the boondocks,' Billy Joe Royal, died on Tuesday, October 6th at his home in Marietta, North Carolina. 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. One of the most revered and recognizable voices in American pop and country music has passed away. 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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