Joe Dolce
Joe Dolce ( b. 1947 in Painesville, Ohio) is a living in Australia musician who has become best known for his song Shaddap You Face.
Biography
While a student at Ohio University Dolce played in a band called Finite Minds. As their singer left the band, he joined as a guitarist with Gary Goose together with the trio Johnathan Edwards and Malcolm and Todd McKinney. In June 1967, they made their big tour along the east coast and were called Sugar Creek. But it was not true in the band and after they had in 1969 just finished an album and give them the equipment was stolen from the truck also, Joe Dolce left the band and started a solo career. Shortly afterwards, Jonathan Edwards also successfully went solo, the band broke up.
In the following years, Dolce was as singer and songwriter in the country and folk field road, dates from this time also My Home Is not in the Hall of Fame, was a country music standard.
From 1974 he was a Poetry Music Fusion Group, founded by him on the way, but it was only moderately successful. Thus came the cut for him in 1978. He left the United States with his wife, an Australian dancer who had received a commitment in Australia. Even when the relationship shortly afterwards broke up, he remained there and eventually rebooted with the Joe Dolce Music Theatre. It was a real show with his own musicians, in which he played his own songs, parodied and imitated. The number that made him famous was that of the Italian immigrant Giuseppi with mandolin, which led through the show and was even inhibited always singing. Since he is of Italian descent, worked his imitation of broken English with a strong Italian accent particularly authentic. The title Shaddap You Face ( real name is actually Shut up your face, which is about as much as to say Shut up ) came to Australia to excellent and has sold over 350 000 times. He was also internationally the most successful Australian single of all time.
The song was a worldwide hit, reaching No. 1 in 15 countries of the charts, including the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Canada and France. About four million copies sold worldwide, the song.
Other hand, its subsequent version of Jimmy Soul 's classic If You Want to Be Happy remained internationally unsuccessful. The other singles who all tried to imitate the style of Shaddap You Face were not internationally and in Australia less and less successful.
In the following years he also worked as a film composer, for example, he wrote the title of the soundtrack Intimacy Terminator 1 (1984). Also, even he was to see the end of the 80s in several small film and television roles in Australia, but an acting career was not it.
In the following years, Dolce returned to his shows and composing. With his long -time partner Lin Van Hek he was also a show called Difficult Women on the road, which he performed in Canada and Europe. He is also on Folk Festival on the road and is successful with its numerous Kompistionen in the field Country folk and gospel. In 2004 he got for Hill of Death, an Australian award for best folk gospel song.
Shaddap You Face
Joe Dolce uses his music again and again to the statement of criticism of society. His first song in Australia was Boat People (1978 ), in which it came to the Vietnamese boat people. Most recently, he wrote 2003, a protest song against the Iraq war (One Iraqi Child, 2003).
Shaddap You Face accesses the situation of the Italian minority, and had for Australia in the early 80s also a socio-political significance, because there the southern European immigrants were not highly regarded and first had to fight for their place in society. Therefore Shaddap You Face is also frequently used in connection with the immigrant and problems of racism, for example, a recent version Dolces with a Vietnamese- Australian comedian as a protest song against a racist party in Australia. There is also a version of the song in the language of the Aborigines of the Australian aborigines.
There are now well over 30 other recordings of the song by other artists, also in Spanish, French and German. A German version of Ludo in 1981 was a radio hit for Gottlieb Wryneck. Also noteworthy are the versions of EMF and the hip-hop KRS -One.
However, the catchy mood song with its simple melody and his humorous and flippant text is also becoming a target of ridicule and frequently appears alongside songs similar style, such as the chicken dance or the Anton aus Tirol in elections to the " worst song ever " and similar anti - elections to the frontmost seats.
- Mike Williams (bass guitar)
- Garth Thompson (Drums )
- Peter McCutcheon (piano, synth -acc )
Discography
- Boat People
- Shaddap You Face
- If You Want to Be Happy
- Is not in No Hurry
- Stick It Out
- Reggae Matilda
- Is not Been Missing You
- You Toucha My Car, I Breaka You Face
- Pizza Pizza
- One Iraqi Child
- Hill of Death