About Col Joye
Colin Frederick Jacobsen (13 April 1936 – 5 August 2025), better known by his stage name Col Joye, was an Australian pioneer rock and pop singer-songwriter, musician and entrepreneur with a career spanning almost sixty-seven years, starting from the late 1950s. Joye was a teen idol and the first Australian rock and roll/pop singer to have a number one record Australia-wide, and had a string of chart successes in the early Australian rock and roll scene, performing with his band the Joy Boys (formerly KJ Quintet). As a pioneer of the genre Joye toured in Lee Gordon's rock 'n' roll shows and featured regularly on television shows including Johnny O'Keefe's Six O'Clock Rock and Brian Henderson's Bandstand. His fifth single, "Oh Yeah Uh Huh", became his most successful, making him the first Australian pop artist to hold a No.1 record nationwide. Joye's first single, "Stagger Lee" was a cover of the Lloyd Price US original.
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