Billy Joe Royal - R.I.P.

[LPJim]

Singer Billy Joe Royal, best known for "Down in the Boondocks," "Cherry Hill Park", "I Knew You When" and many other pop and country hits, died today at age 73.


http://www.wsmv.com/story/30202602/singer-billy-joe-royal-dies-at-73



JB

 

[Dave]

I always thought the needle got stuck on Linda Ronstadt's "I Knew You When"--and good gosh it did when I had my copy of it!--just to find that Billy Joe's original repeated the "Yeah, yeah" at the beginning; presaging The Beatles "She Loves You"... (Yeah, Yeah!)


-- Dave

 

[Steven J. Gross]

He was really great, RIP