{"id":68063,"date":"2019-08-31T06:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=68063"},"modified":"2019-08-31T06:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T10:45:15","slug":"from-rock-n-roll-to-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/2019\/08\/from-rock-n-roll-to-country\/","title":{"rendered":"From Rock N Roll To Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy was raised in Marietta, Georgia, and performed at the Georgia Jubilee during his teens.\u00a0 He had his own rock band before he was twenty, and became a very popular act through the sixties.<\/p>\n<p>He recorded a demo for his friend Joe South which was heard at Columbia Records, and that led to a record deal.\u00a0 The song, &#8220;Down in the Boondocks&#8221;,\u00a0 became one of his top hits.<\/p>\n<p>By the late seventies, Billy was a regular act in Vegas, and he appeared as an actor on television, and in the movies.<\/p>\n<p>During the eighties, Billy recorded Country music and had several top twenty singles.<\/p>\n<p>Join me next Saturday, September 7 at 9:20, for more with Billy Joe Royal!<\/p>\n<p>Saturday mornings with Jeff Norgate&#8230;only on CKNX!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy was raised in Marietta, Georgia, and performed at the Georgia Jubilee during his teens.\u00a0 He had his own rock band before he was twenty, and became a very popular act through the sixties. He recorded a demo for his friend Joe South which was heard at Columbia Records, and that led to a record","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":68064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 05:57:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/2019\/08\/from-rock-n-roll-to-country\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68065,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68063\/revisions\/68065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}