Royal died in his sleep on October 6, 2015, in Morehead City, North Carolina. He also played Robert Ally in the indie Western film, Billy the Kid (2013), co-starring country singer Cody McCarver. His set lists included a mixture of songs representing multiple genres from the 1960s onwards. Royal continued to tour regularly, performing concerts at casinos, music festivals, and clubs in North America, Japan, and throughout Europe. His music was further exposed to younger generations through a movement known as The Beat Army, an online music forum based on Facebook which is operated by author and music producer Paul Collins. Royal experienced a second comeback during the 2000s due to regular airplay on Country and Classic radio stations. His successes on the country charts continued until the early 1990s. His other country hits included " I'll Pin a Note on Your Pillow" (1987), " Tell It Like It Is", and " Till I Can't Take It Anymore" (both 1989). However, he reinvented himself in the 1980s as a mainstream country star, and had his first hit on the country music chart in 1985 with " Burned Like a Rocket", released on the Atlantic label. His last hit on the US pop charts was in 1978, when his version of " Under the Boardwalk" became a minor hit. īy the late 1970s, Royal had become a regular performer in Las Vegas, and also appeared as an actor in movies and on television.
In the 1970s his recording of "Heart's Desire" gained popularity among Northern soul enthusiasts and was regularly played in Northern soul nightclubs. His 1969 single, " Cherry Hill Park", peaked at No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. when Royal released it in 1967, but a later remake by The Osmonds was a much greater success. Another South composition, " Yo-Yo", just missed the top 40 in Canada and charted poorly in the U.S.
He followed up his initial success with the singles " I Knew You When" (Top 20, 1965) and " Hush" (1967), also written and produced by Joe South. Billy kept releasing pop singles through 1978, but never got close to the Hot 100 top forty again. Billy finally returned to the Hot 100 with a hit of his own when he recorded Cherry Hill Park in 1969. "Down in the Boondocks" remained his best-known song, reaching number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, and number 38 in the UK. While Billy’s version stalled at 52, Deep Purple took the song to 4 on the Hot 100 in 1968. Although the sound and the packaging could be a little better, this still is a fine way for collectors to pick up these two records on disc.
The recording was heard at Columbia Records, who offered Royal a singing contract in 1965 and released his version of the song, produced by South. Billy Joe Royal's first two albums, Down in the Boondocks and Cherry Hill Park, were combined on this single-CD reissue by Collectables. Royal was a friend of performer and songwriter Joe South, and recorded what was intended as a demo of South's song " Down in the Boondocks".
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free movies, Billy Joe Royal Cherry Hill Park, latest music videos, online radio. He formed his own rock and roll band, and became a local star at the Bamboo Ranch in Savannah in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where his singing style was influenced by African-American performers, including Sam Cooke. Listen Cherry Hill Park mp3 songs free online by Billy Joe Royal. “A friend of mine had gone to Philadelphia somewhere and looked over and saw Cherry Hill and then just said, ‘Hey, Cherry Hill, merry hill,’ ” Royal said.Born in Valdosta, Georgia, to Clarence and Mary Sue Smith Royal, and raised in Marietta, Georgia, Royal performed at the Georgia Jubilee in Atlanta during his teens. Perhaps not the town itself, actually, but at least the name.
Royal didn’t write the song himself - it was penned by Robert Nix and Billy Gilmore - but in a 2008 interview with, he confirmed that, yes, the song was indeed inspired by Cherry Hill, N.J. The girl in the song, “Mary Hill,” “was such a thrill after dark, in Cherry Hill Park,” until she got married, and “since that day, it ain’t been the same,” sings Royal. In 1969, a revolutionary time for popular music, Billy Joe Royal, a country pop star and a Georgia native, made the national Top 20 with a silly, mildly salacious little ditty called “Cherry Hill Park,” which had more in common with Fats Domino’s 1956 hit “Blueberry Hill” than anything else going on in popular music during that era (except maybe The Turtles’ 1967 hit “Happy Together,” whose chorus its own chorus resembles a bit). The cover of Billy Joe Royal’s 1969 album, “Cherry Hill Park.”
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