Remembering Col Joye, Australia’s first teen idol

In the wide history of Rock’s Roll, there have been many stars that gave girls the connections of the heart. In the late 1950s, the undisputed king of the young scene in Australia Col Joye. He passed away at the age of 89 recently.

He was born on April 13, 1936 in Colin Frederick Jacobsen in Sydney, Australia. ‘Oh yes uh huh‘ (1959) continued to have a lot of graphic success with its group. Joy Boys.

Joye left school at the age of 14 and worked as a jewelery seller until he started a group with his brothers Kevin and Keith. Jacobsen Brothers released two singles in 1959 – ‘Stagele’ (A cover of Lloyd Price Us original) and ‘Goodbye baby‘ – Secondly, he reached a number in the graphics and founded Joye as a big star.

Upon the advice of a prudence, he changed his name to Col Joye and was regular at the Australian music show Tape 14 years. Soon he won fascinated legions for his natural charm, exhibited on the bluish covers he had recorded best, ‘Being a Lula BOP‘ (1963).

Col Joye and The Joy Boys were the first Australian rock group to reach the American Billboard painting in 1959, type In the mid -1960s and in the early 70s, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs.

Joye also took the stage as famous SapphireA group of girls consisting of first nation artists.

When KJ Quintet added the organizer Bill McColl to the invoice of the Jazzorama concert in Manly Embassy in Manly in October 1957, Col Joye and Joy Boys became and then used it to heat the audience in the film screenings. Tommy Steele Story.

Like the Punk protests that followed them in the 1970s, Jacobsens went to cut the intermediary and DIY.

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Kevin Jacobsen remembered:

We conducted our own dances and we have ruled ourselves from the very beginning.

Every Saturday night, we attracted two and a half thousand children to Bankstown Capitol in Vinil, trying to stop about 20 bouncer fights.

The group demanded itself to the Sydney Stadium shows and Shared billing with Little Richard– Gene Vincent, Everly Brothers– Ricky Nelson– Fabian and belt rivals Johnny O’keeefe and Dee Jays.

Australian music historian Glenn a baker written:

At that time, a threat to the morality of the nation, the suppliers of the devil’s music, took young people to the path of primrose deterioration and loved every minute.

Equipped with young trust and primitive sound equipment that could be carried on the Holden Station Wagon, Col and Men were able to get a nationwide pathway on behalf of Rock ‘N’ Roll.

“Strong work is a family feature,” then he would make quip.

… Col was not a magnificent singer, but he was competent, and he was ready to turn his tonsils into anything that took the fantasy of his group.

Joye was produced by a new single and Joye for Joye, the stadium shaking the stadium, Joyride and Golden Boy. Some were drawn, some didn’t do it, but it didn’t matter.

It is difficult to deal with how many magazine cover, newspaper title and television time are divided into Joye for a 10 -year period. The ordinary Australians felt safe with this regular man who never tried to note him.

“Tape It was very important for my career, ”Joye himself once said,“ Because we didn’t know how to do more than we were, and it was good with Brian Henderson [the host]. We may not be so good, but we weren’t bad either. We never had parents offside, and we weren’t controversial – we didn’t know how to be. If we did something wrong at home, we got a strap! But yes, we rose to quite large summits in this country. I have to say that. “

In 1973, Joye will enjoy a number of 16 graphics entrances by enjoying a number for the country. ‘Paradise is a woman’s love‘. This success placed him in a rare category, Jimmy Barnes– John FarnhamJohnny O’keeefe and Daryl Braithwaite.

Col Joye married In 1970, Dalys Dawson at a joint wedding ceremony with his sister Carol Jacobsen and Sandy Scott in Fiji. The couple had two children, Amber and Clayton.

In his later years, Joye started a new career as a music organizer and founded a talent agency with his brother Kevin. Them discovered . Bee gees Surfers brought them to Paradise and brought them to Sydney.

Joye in 1981, Australian order Medal and then Joye in 1988 ARIA HONOR LIST.

Soon bad luck came. In 1990, while pruning a neighbor’s tree with a saw as a choice, Joye slipped and fell Six meters on brick asphalting, hitting his head and falling into a coma, as well as serious waist and shoulder injuries to continue the sense of taste and loss of taste. HE freed And in 1998, he began to perform and tour temporarily.

Joye’s passage is a flood tribute.

Entertainment reporter Richard Wilkins in question: