google-site-verification=BP7JRrQ1QypIHexDE2MKjVmpwzKuWMDaOJwp2gTq_B4

Billy Joe Burnette


70’s Ballad

Birth name, Billy Barnette aka Billy Joe Burnette

always click on pic’s.


Richmond, Virginia, USA

Born xx, 1940 ; Died Dec. 29, 2016 (aged 76), Port Orange, Florida

Virginia
billyjoeburnette-3

Country rocker Billy Joe Burnette, 76, who co-wrote Red Sovine’s #1 smash “Teddy Bear” (1976), died Dec. 29, outside his Port Orange, Fla., home, while planning his move back to Nashville. In 1990, he charted Billboard with his country single “Three Flags,” released on the independent Badger label. Born Billy Joe Barnette in Richmond, Va., he was given up for adoption and grew up in Roanoke. After meeting brothers Dorsey and Johnny Burnette, fellow rockabillies, in Los Angeles in 1964, he took their advice and changed Barnette to Burnette. It was back in Roanoke that he met Dr. A. J. Russo, with whom he co-wrote “Stomp, Shake and Twist,” which garnered national attention, no doubt due to the popularity of The Twist dance rage. Dick Clark of TV’s American Bandstand show helped by plugging Billy Joe’s disc “Marlene,” recorded on Philadelphia’s Parkway Records label. In the next decade he was working out of Nashville, where his weeper “Teddy Bear,” concerning a truck driver and a crippled boy, earned Grammy and CMA nominations, as well as a BMI writer award. In 2009, he released a double CD collection, “Virginia Rocks! The History of Rockabilly in the Commonwealth,” celebrated at Ferrum College’s annual Blue Ridge Folklife Festival, where Burnette was honored for his contribution to the state’s music history. He performed regularly while residing in Florida, at Crabby Joe’s Deck & Grill on an oceanside fishing pier. Among his more recent records were tearjerkers “What Heaven Has Sent,” and “The White House Boys” a la “Teddy Bear.”   Read original text here >>> Billy Joe Burnette

This release, Original release  STARDAY SD 167 (US) [1977]

Welcome home, Elvis   b/w   I haven't seen mama in years

Welcome home, Elvis - 1977


© Stefan Schröder 2017     stefan.sch@gagnef.st