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Reached #41 in the Pop charts & #27 in the Country charts
Joseph Alfred Souter (born February 28, 1940, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a Grammy Award-wi...
Reached #41 in the Pop charts & #27 in the Country charts
Joseph Alfred Souter (born February 28, 1940, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter with a distinctive guitar sound.
Joe South had several mega hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s with songs such as "Don't It Make You Wanna Go Home" and "Walk a Mile in My Shoes". His biggest and most-remembered single was "Games People Play" (1969), a Top 10 hit on both sides of the Atlantic, which won the "Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song" and the prestigious "Grammy Award for Song of the Year", and which bears a striking resemblance to the children's gospel song, "I Don't Want to Be a Pharisee". It was featured on his first album, Introspect.
He had met and was encouraged by Bill Lowery, an Atlanta music publisher and radio personality. He began his recording career in Atlanta with National Recording Corporation, where he served as staff guitarist along with other NRC artists Ray Stevens and Jerry Reed. South's earliest recordings have been re-released by NRC on CD.
Joe South songs have been recorded by other artists. They include Lynn Anderson's 1971 hit "(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden", Billy Joe Royal's hit "Down in the Boondocks," Deep Purple's "Hush" (a British hit many years later for Kula Shaker), the Osmonds' hit "Yo-Yo," and Elvis Presley's Las Vegas-era version of "Walk a Mile in My Shoes", also recorded by Bryan Ferry and Coldcut.
South was also a prominent sideman, recording the memorable guitar part on Aretha Franklin's Chain of Fools, Tommy Roe's Sheila as well as appearing on Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde. He also played the electric guitar part that was added to Simon & Garfunkel's first hit, "The Sound of Silence".
The suicide of his brother Tommy drove South into a deep depression. Tommy had been his band's drummer and accompanied Joe not only in live performances but also on recording sessions of South-produced hits for other artists including Billy Joe Royal, Sandy Posey, and Friend & Lover.
Joe South was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1979 and is a member of the Georgia Music Hall Of Fame.
In 1988 dutch DJ Jan Donkers interviewed Joe South for VPRO-radio. The radio show where they aired the interview also included four new songs but a new record didn't came out.
In 1994 Joe played in England.
On september 13, 2003 Joe was inducted into Georgia Music Hall of Fame and played together with Buddy Buie, J.R. Cobb, Chips Moman at the induction ceremony.
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This song puts me right smack dab in the middle of Danang, late summer of '69. And yes Joe, we really wanted to go home. Badly. Songs like this provide a soundtrack to our lives and this one stirs up some vivid memories for me. I hope all my buddies--and we were the closest of buddies for 12 months--have survived and prospered all these many years since we were young....
You should upload it to youtube. His version is also not on the iTunes Store. I'd love to hear all the versions (over 100) by different artists, but remember who wrote it, Joe South - all the rest built on Joe's gem.
This song is about my home town in Georgia, The drag strip that he is talking about is THE YELLOW RIVER DRAG STRIP it went out of business after a bad crash on March 2nd, 1969. The 6 lane Hwy is I-20 through GA, and the Drive in show is the HUB DRIVE IN it has been out of business since around 1977.
Joe has a ton of talent from "Hush" to "Untie Me" and evreytjhing in between. Does anyone know what he is up to these days? He is an enigma, hope he is still with us.
Wow, murphicus thanks for the info. Let's face it, South's music is wide-ranging and eclectic. A lot of people just don't get it, his stuff has stood the test of time!!
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I hope all my buddies--and we were the closest of buddies for 12 months--have survived and prospered all these many years since we were young....
"Untie Me" and evreytjhing in between. Does anyone know what he is up to these days? He is an enigma, hope he is still with us.
Cheers!
eclectic. A lot of people just don't get it,
his stuff has stood the test of time!!