![]() Billy Joe recorded the song, about a girl who byĭaytime had been “a teaser” and at nighttime “a pleaser” – before marrying and ARS drummer Robert Nix and Billy Gilmore had written a song inspiredīy a place in New Jersey. and producer Buddy Buie,Īrchitect of the Atlanta Rhythm Section (ARS) and a longtime associate of Bill Paired Billy Joe with arranger Emory Gordy Jr. South signed with Capitol Records as a recording artist in late 1967, Columbia Years sputtered, but lightning struck again at the end of the decade. Interpretation of two other Joe South songs: “I Knew You When” and “I’ve Got Toīilly Joe’s releases during the following couple of Release Billy Joe’s recording of Joe South’s composition “Down in theīoondocks.” That sent him into the top 10, and he followed it with his Success eluded him until 1965, when Lowery persuaded Columbia Records to Various labels released Billy Joe Royal singles but ![]() WithĪudio fed into the drained, dry tank, it served as a fine echo chamber. Septic tank – which, as it turned out, had remarkable acoustic properties. ![]() Lowery built his northeastern Atlanta studio in the abandoned Brookhaven Royal and South connected with Atlanta recording studio ownerĪnd music publisher Bill Lowery, for whom Billy Joe began recording demos inġ961. Reed, Ray Stevens, Tommy Roe and – most importantly for him – Joe South (birth Also chosen that day was country music singerįreddy Weller, and fellow performers that Billy Joe met there included Jerry Gaining experience singing with local bands, he passed a singing audition atĪge 14 to appear on the Georgia Jubilee, a barn-dance program that wasīroadcast on Atlanta-area radio. Poverty that Billy Joe described with such feeling in his 1965 breakout hit, “Downīilly Joe, who as an adolescent enjoyed country, pop,Īnd gospel music, had planned to become a lap steel guitar player. Worked at the cotton mill, and Billy Joe’s dad supplemented that with work as aĬonstruction laborer whenever he could. They picked cotton, then moved to a mill village and Their parents, Clarence and Mary, worked hard to scrape together a Siblings – his brother, Jack, two years younger, and two sisters, Marilyn andĬhristine. Royal – that was his true birth name – was the oldest among his three other He and his family had movedįrom his birthplace, Valdosta, Georgia, to Marietta in 1952 when he was 10 Marietta Square also had a bandstand and a gazebo. When the movie let out, we all hung out at the drugstore,” Billy Joe recalled. “We had two movie theaters on the square, and That wasīilly Joe Royal’s memory of Marietta, Georgia, where in the ’50s he spent much Store, and other mom-and-pop shops surrounding the central green. ![]() Billy Joe Royal in an outtake from the 1965 photo sessionġ955-era town square in the original Backīutcher shop, a bakery, a malt shop, a shoe store, a dress shop, a hardware ![]()
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