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Joy King - Yodel For Joy (1967, Private Press Country)

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Track released by country singer and yodeler Joy King in 1967 on Metromaster Records.

Joy King (1937-2016) was a country singer and renowned yodeler from Knoxville, Tennessee. In the 1950s and 1960s she traveled around playing on local barn dance shows and at coffeehouses in Tennessee and Florida. She recorded sparingly in the 1960s and 1970s, including a single "Taking Chances" backed with "Laughing Girl", which was recorded with members of the Nashville A-Team. She was also a popular attracting in Gatlinburg, which is where I assume the 45 uploaded here originated. Joy also released a few LPs in her career: two with country singer Eddie Nash and one solo effort in 1978 called Sings Country. She played around Tennessee frequently until the 1990s, when an illness affected her voice.

Joy King passed away in 2016.

Most of the information I've included here was taken from the article "The Underappreciated Career of Folk Singer Joy King" published at www.knoxmercury.com, written by Eric Dawson. ---

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