Billy Joe Royal was born in Valdosta, Georgia, and raised in Marietta, Georgia.
Posted on 10/07/2015 9:28:34 AM PDT by EveningStar
Billy Joe Royal, who scored the 1965 Top Ten single "Down in the Boondocks" and also made frequent appearances on the country chart in the Eighties, died suddenly Tuesday morning at his Marietta, North Carolina home, according to the Tennessean. He was 73 years old.
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OHW?
ping
RIP
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3EKu0gsUk
Billy Joe Royal - Cherry Hill Park
One of the greatest recording artists ever.
Found his body in Cherry Hill Park?
this isn’t the “We Didn’t Start the Fire” guy is it?
yep, cherry hill park on the radio during breakfast before school.
No that is Billy Joel..YOUTUBE:Billy Joel "We Didn't Start The Fire"
For me it was hearing it on the bus on the way to school. That and “Evil Woman (Don’t Play Your Games with Me)” by Crow and “Evil Ways” by Santana. 1969 was a dark time in my grade school music listening.
He was supposed to be singing in Jackson, Tennessee, Saturday as many of us had tickets to see the oldies show. Ow. RIP Billy Joe.
He was my first rock concert. I was 5 or 6, Dad was in Vietnam, and Mom took me to see BJR warm up for Paul Revere and the Raiders.
“People put me down cause that’s the side of town I was born in.” RIP Billy Joe Royal.
Billy Joe Royal was born in Valdosta, Georgia, and raised in Marietta, Georgia.
You must be YOUNG!
More recent photo of Billy Joe Royal with BJ Thomas.
http://www.local4566.org/BJ%20Thomas%20and%20Billy%20Joe/BJ_Thomas_BillyJoe_Royal.jpg
http://thebiggerpictureband.com/myblog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Billy-Joe-Royal-with-Kris.jpg
I don’t think that is Billy Joe Royal....
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He went the way I want to ... Suddenly
I do not want IV’s and extended bed rest, it isn’t the way I live, won’t be the way I die.
RIP Billy Joe Royal
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