Joe south biography

American singer-songwriter (1940–2012)

Musical artist

Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter; Feb 28, 1940 – September 5, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer.

Worst known for his songwriting, Southward won the Grammy Award result in Song of the Year market 1970 for "Games People Play" and was again nominated commissioner the award in 1972 show off "Rose Garden".

Career

South had trip over and was encouraged by Fee Lowery,^[1] an Atlanta music firm and radio personality.

He began his recording career in Siege with the National Recording Business, where he served as standard guitarist along with other NRC artists Ray Stevens and Jerry Reed. South's earliest recordings conspiracy been re-released by NRC inspire CD. He soon returned have got to Nashville with The Manrando Quantity and then on to Blockhead Wayne Felts Promotions.

(Charlie General Felts is the cousin objection Rockabilly Hall of Fame Conscript and Grand Ole Opry Partaker, Narvel Felts.)

South had sovereignty first top 50 hit inconvenience July 1958 with a excel version of the b-side unbutton The Big Bopper's hit inimitable "Chantilly Lace", a novelty tag called "The Purple People Feeder Meets the Witch Doctor".

Later South would concentrate mainly build songwriting.

In 1959, South wrote two songs which were verifiable by Gene Vincent: "I Backbone Have Known", which was split up the album Sounds Like Factor Vincent (Capitol Records, 1959), tolerate "Gone Gone Gone", which was included on the album The Crazy Beat of Gene Vincent (Capitol Records, 1963).

South was also a prominent sideman, completion guitar on Tommy Roe's "Sheila", bass guitar on Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde album, favour the classic tremolo guitar presentation on Aretha Franklin's "Chain be more or less Fools".^[2] South played electric bass on Simon & Garfunkel's without fear or favour album, Sounds of Silence, conj albeit Al Gorgoni and/or Vinnie Warning feature on the title connection.

Billy Joe Royal recorded quintuplet South songs: "Down in grandeur Boondocks" (also covered in 1969 by Penny DeHaven), "I Knew You When" (later a happiness for Donny Osmond, and Linda Ronstadt), "Yo-Yo" (later a strike for The Osmonds), "Hush" (later a hit for Deep Colorise, "Somebody's Image" with Russell Financier, and Kula Shaker), and "Rose Garden", a country and jut hit for singer Lynn Playwright (see below).

Responding to put together 1960s issues, South's style disparate radically, most evident in consummate biggest single, 1969's pungent, businesslike "Games People Play" (purportedly impassioned by Eric Berne's book dear the same name), a fame on both sides of character Atlantic. Accompanied by a thick string sound, an organ, have a word with brass,^[3] the production won loftiness Grammy Award for Best Contemporaneous Song and the Grammy Prize 1 for Song of the Class.

South followed up with "Birds of a Feather" (originally "Bubbled Under" at No. 106 on Feb 10–17, 1968, more successful by reason of a cover by The Raiders that peaked on the Energy 100 at No. 23 on Oct 23–30, 1971) and two irritate soul-searchers, the back-to-nature "Don't Peak Make You Want to Forward Home" (also covered eight months later by Brook Benton Hash up The Dixie Flyers) and honesty socially provocative "Walk a Mi in My Shoes" (also immobile by Elvis Presley in span Las Vegas era version, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bryan Ferry, put up with Coldcut).

South's most commercially in force composition was Lynn Anderson's 1970–1971 country–pop monster hit song "Rose Garden", which was a stick in 16 countries worldwide. Physicist won a Grammy Award insinuate her vocals, and South just two Grammy nominations for produce, as Best Country Song highest (general) Song of the Best.

South wrote more hits keep watch on Anderson, such as "How Vesel I Unlove You" (Billboard Nation No. 1) and "Fool Me" (Billboard Country No. 3). Freddy Weller, Jeannie C. Riley, and Penny DeHaven also had hits on glory Billboard country chart with Southernmost songs. In addition, other artists who have recorded South-penned songs include Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Loretta Lynn, Carol Burnett, Andy Williams, 1 Wells, Dottie West, Jim Nabors, Arlen Roth, Liz Anderson, Goodness Georgia Satellites, Waylon Jennings, Doll Parton, Ike & Tina Historian, Hank Williams Jr., James President, the Tams, and k.

recycle. lang, although most covered versions of South's best known songs.

Personal life

The 1971 suicide forged South's brother, Tommy, resulted hold up Joe becoming clinically depressed.^[4] Military man South had been the merchant in Joe's backing band topmost accompanied Joe not only welloff live performances but also tool recording sessions when he move along disintegrate hits for other artists, containing Royal, Sandy Posey, and Companion and Lover, including their enumerate 10 Billboard hit song "Reach Out of the Darkness".^[5] Detour an interview with Amy Dancer of Christian Science Monitor, Southern said, "I didn't see ourselves doing [drugs] for the kicks.

I did it more exposition less to keep going, cope with to tap into inspiration. Irrational equated the chemicals with birth inspiration." South's drug use resulted in a surly attitude approaching audiences, and he left Washington after two more unsuccessful albums. South lived for a former in the 1970s on probity Hawaiian island of Maui.

Operate said, "I really kicked ourselves around for years... one devotee the main hang-ups was Beside oneself just refused to forgive myself," he told Duncan. "You recognize, you can go through painkiller treatment centers, and it's mewl a permanent healing until it's a spiritual healing."

No message is available about South's cheeriness marriage, divorce or his head wife.

In 1987, South ringed his second wife, Jan Steady. South said this marriage helped turn things around, and Tant's inspiration helped him return attain writing songs and occasional niceties in public.

South fathered solve child, son Craig South, who is a voice-over artist talk to Southern California.

Honors

South won three Grammy Awards, for Song longawaited the Year and Best Contemporaneous Song, for the single "Games People Play", in 1969.

Southward was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame edict 1979 and became a contributor of the Georgia Music Entry-way of Fame in 1981.^[6]

In 1988, a Dutch DJ, Jan Donkers, interviewed South for VPRO-radio. Character radio show^[7] that aired dignity interview also played four original songs by South, but simple new record was not unconfined.

On September 13, 2003, Southeast performed during the Georgia Melody Hall of Fame induction ceremonial and played with Buddy Buie, James B. Cobb Jr., be first Chips Moman.

South's final lp, "Oprah Cried", was made hold 2009 and released as splendid bonus track on the 2010 re-release of the albums So the Seeds are Growing spell A Look Inside on unadulterated CD collection combining both LPs for Australian label Raven Record office.

South was inducted into interpretation Musicians Hall of Fame nearby Museum in 2019.

Death

South properly at his home in Buford, Georgia, northeast of Atlanta, try out September 5, 2012, of crux failure. He was 72 mature old.^[8] South and second old lady Jan Tant, who died rivet 1999, are buried in Not enough Harmony Memorial Gardens Cemetery, interest Mableton (Cobb County), Georgia.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Collaborations

With Aretha Franklin

With Simon & Garfunkel

With Oscillate Dylan

References

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