Sunday, February 19, 2012

Juice Newton - playing with the Queen of Hearts; and Angel of the Morning


Yes, we remember Juice Newton.  This is Judy Kay "Juice" Newton (February 18, 1952 - )
singer, songwriter and guitarist. To date, Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories (winning once in 1983), as well as an ACM Award for Top New Female Artist and two Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards (won consecutively). She has several Gold and Platinum records to her credit, including JuiceQuiet Lies and her first Greatest Hits album. During the 1980s, Newton charted 14 Top-10 hits across the Billboard Country,AC, and Hot 100 charts, with many of the recordings achieving crossover success and six of the songs hitting the #1 position.  This is her record - Juice is the multi-Platinum 1981 breakthrough album by American country-rock singer Juice Newton. The album was Newton's third solo album and her first major international success.  It has two #1 hits "Angel of the Morning" and "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)". It also contains "Queen of Hearts," the biggest-selling single of Juice Newton's career, which peaked at #2 on both Billboard's Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts ("Endless Love" by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie prevented the song from reaching #1). "Queen of Hearts" was a popular music video during the summer of MTV's debut. Newton would go on to have more hit songs and albums, but this remains the album she is most known for.

3 comments:

  1. We remember our first trip to Lake Superior in 1977. My second trip was 1981 and "Angel of the Morning" and "Queen of Hearts" played every 2 seconds on the car radio and the Sweeping Sand radio! (Radio not much a part of Sweeping Sand life nowadays!)
    Spencer

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  2. how about on the RPC canoe trips driving to and from the Little Muskegaon River in Mr. Kewiet's station wagon? The Captain and Tenile was played continually on Super 'CFL...

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  3. I recall riding with Roger Rice, I think, and I don't believe he had the radio on! But indeed Captain and Tenile were HUGE at that time.....again what a different time!
    Spencer

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