The Joy Boys
The Joy Boys are an Australian instrumental group. They performed on their own and as a backing band for Col Joye Colin Frederick Jacobsen (13 April 1937) better known by his stage name Col Joye, is an Australian pioneer rock singer-songwriter, musician and entrepreneur with a career spanning almost sixty-seven years, starting from the late 50s. Joye was .... They had chart success with releases such as top ten singles "Smokey Mokes" (1961) and "Southern 'Rora" (1962). Members *Kevin Jacobson - piano *Keith Jacobson - bass *Norm Day - guitar *John Bogie - drums *Laurie Irwin - sax/clarinet *Ron Patten - sax *Bruce Gurr - keyboards *Dave Bridge - guitar *Rex Blair - drums Discography *''Col Joye’s Joy Boys'' (1961) - Festival *''New Old Time'' (1962) - Festival *''The Joy Boys Fabulous Hits'' (1962) - Festival *''Cookin' up a Party'' (1963) - Festival *''The Surfin' Stompin Joys'' (1964) - Festival References {{DEFAULTSORT:Joy Boys, The Musical groups established in ...
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Rock Music
Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in rock and roll, a style that drew from the black musical genres of blues and rhythm and blues, as well as from country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk music, folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other styles. Rock is typically centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drum kit, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a Time signature, time signature and using a verse–chorus form; however, the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political. Rock was the most p ...
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Col Joye
Colin Frederick Jacobsen (13 April 1937) better known by his stage name Col Joye, is an Australian pioneer rock singer-songwriter, musician and entrepreneur with a career spanning almost sixty-seven years, starting from the late 50s. Joye was the first Australian rock and roll singer to have a number one record Australia-wide, and experienced a string of chart successes in the early Australian rock and roll scene, performing with his then band the Joy Boys (formerly KJ Quintet). Early life and education Colin Jacobsen was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 13 April 1937 Graduating school, prior to stardom, he worked as a jewellery salesman. Musical career Jacobson started performing and recording in the late 1950s with his backing band, originally called the KJ Quintet, the predecessor of what would become the Joy Boys, which included his brothers Kevin and Keith. As Col Joye he enjoyed a string of hits on the local and national singles charts of Australia beginning in 1959 ...
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Musical Groups Established In 1957
Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music -al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousnes ...