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The program featured prominent guest artists and brought Royal into professional contact with classic country music artists such as Ray Stevens, Jerry Reed, and various members of the Grand Ole Opry radio barn dance cast. At age 14 Royal joined a musical revue called Georgia Jubilee. He then learned to play the steel guitar. He delivered newspapers as a schoolboy, but by age 11 he was in pursuit of a show-business career, beginning with regular singing appearances on his uncle's radio show. The family moved to Marietta when Royal was seven years of age, and to Atlanta three years later. He was the son of a self-employed truck driver. Royal was born on Ap(or 1945, according to some sources) in Valdosta, Georgia. Clear and direct in his vocal delivery, Royal performed on guitar, piano, and drums, and also made his mark as a published composer. He earned stardom in his own right in the 1960s after the release of a top ten hit single, 'Down in the Boondocks.' Despite periods of low visibility, Royal's popularity endured through the next three decades and into the new millennium.

Rising from the unpretentious background of a Georgia schoolboy, Billy Joe Royal was rubbing elbows with the most popular country and rhythm-and-blues performers of the 1950s by the time he had graduated from high school. Addresses: Booking-The Bobby Roberts Company, Inc., P.O.

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