Juice Newton

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Juice Newton

Background information
Birth name Judith Kaye Cohen
Born February 18, 1952
Origin Lakehurst, New Jersey
Genre(s) Country music/Pop music
Years active 1975-Present
Label(s) Capitol Records, RCA Records
Associated
acts		 Janie Fricke, Anne Murray

Juice Newton was born Judith Kaye Cohen 18 February 1952 in Lakehurst, New Jersey and grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She is an American pop music and country singer. She mixed folk, rock, blues and pop into a signature sound that led to a hugely successful recording career. To date, Newton has sold more than 13 million albums, scored 20 Top-40 hit singles across the U.S. country, pop and adult contemporary charts. She has also won two Album Artist of the Year Billboard Awards, one Grammy and a CMA Award for Best New Female Artist. To date, Newton has received a total of five Grammy nominations for Best Female Vocalist. She has several Gold and Platinum records to her credit, including "Juice (album)," "Quiet Lies" and "Greatest Hits." In October 2004, Newton's hit Queen Of Hearts appeared in the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas soundtrack, playing on fictional country music station K-ROSE.

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[edit] Early Life

Shortly after she graduated from high school, Newton's band Juice Newton and Silver Spur was signed to RCA Records. The group released two albums and had only one charting single with "Love Is a Word". The band signed with Capitol in 1977, and its only album for the label sold poorly. In 1978, Juice Newton went solo, although Silver Spur would remain the name of her backup band until 1982. Later in 1977, the single "It's a Heartache" became Newton's first Hot 100 pop entry and was later covered by Bonnie Tyler, who had a bigger hit with the tune. In 1978, Newton had her first country top-40 single with "Let's Keep It That Way" (which was issued only as a single and was not available on her solo debut Well Kept Secret). The 1979 album Take Heart featured five more charted singles, including "Until Tonight" and covers of the Evie Sands '60s hit "Any Way That You Want Me" and "Sunshine". The latter became Newton's second top-40 single on the country charts. Both of Newton's initial solo efforts performed with modest success.

In 1981, Newton's breakthrough album, simply titled Juice, was released. It spawned her biggest country hits so far, each crossing over into the pop top 10: "Angel of the Morning" (a hit for Merrilee Rush in 1968, written by Chip Taylor), "Queen of Hearts", and an updated version of "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)" (the original version appears on the 1975 debut album), which earned her the first of several country #1 hits. A fourth top-40 country hit "Ride 'Em Cowboy" (originally from Juice) was released from her 1984 Greatest Hits collection.

[edit] Success

Juice sold more than a million copies in the United States and 300,000 in Canada. "Angel of the Morning" and "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)" also reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, where Newton would chart regularly until the release of her 1985 album "Old Flame," which was her first successful album to be targeted solely at the country market. In 1982, Newton was honored with two Grammy nominations for Best Female Vocalist: for "Angel of the Morning" in the Pop category, and "Queen of Hearts" in the Country category.

Later in 1982, Newton released her successful follow-up album Quiet Lies which went Gold in the U.S. by year's end (selling more than 900,000 copies, nearly hitting Platinum status) and going Platinum in Canada. From Quiet Lies came the pop top-10 smash "Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me" (which garnered her another Pop Female Vocalist Grammy nomination), "Break It To Me Gently" (which hit #11 on the Pop charts, stayed at #1 on Adult Contemporary for three weeks, hit #2 on the Billboard country charts, and won her a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, beating out the likes of fellow contemporaries Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Rosanne Cash). The third and final single from the album was "Heart of the Night", which, in early 1983, reached #25 on the Pop charts and hit #4 on Adult Contemporary.

[edit] Crossover career

The direction for Newton's sixth (and final) Capitol album Dirty Looks was decidedly more rock and experimental than her usual blending of folk, rock, pop, torch and country styles, as evident on her #27 pop hit "Tell Her No" (a '60s hit for the Zombies) and the title track, a rock number that charted low in the Hot 100. The country-oriented single "Stranger at My Door" had a brief stay on the country charts, but failed to sustain Newton's popularity with country radio. The album was a moderate success, going Silver (250,000 copies sold) in the United States and Gold in Canada.

According to a 1984 front-page article in Billboard magazine, changes at Capitol led Newton to return to RCA. Her 1984 album Can't Wait All Night continued with a more rock-oriented sound. The launch single "A Little Love" and the title track became her final charting pop singles, reaching #44 and #66, respectively -- while "Restless Heart" only made it to #57 on the Country chart. "A Little Love" would be Newton's final Top-10 Adult Contemporary single to date, hitting the #7 spot. Because American pop radio was newly ignoring country-influenced work, Newton's pop-music star was fading.

The following year, Juice Newton would release her most successful country album yet with Old Flame, which featured six Top-10 country hits, including the #1s "You Make Me Want to Make You Mine", "Hurt" and "Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers)" with Eddie Rabbit. The duet, released to the public prior to the pop version "Friends and Lovers" (which hit radio and stores two weeks after Newton's version first appeared) by Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson, was available only on special editions of the "Old Flame" album and on the Eddie Rabbitt album "Rabbitt Traxx". Newton continued her Top-10 hit streak the following year with "Tell Me True" from the Emotion album, while another single, the progressive country tune "First Time Caller" stalled at #24. Newton's final album of the decade Ain't Gonna Cry (1989) didn't chart, but it did spawn her final Top-40 country hit to date, "When Love Comes Around The Bend".

[edit] Juice Newton's Life 1995 to Today

In 1995, Newton recorded a duets double-album (which was slated to be sold via info-mercial), but the project was riddled with legal issues, resulting in a very low-impact, "accidental" release of the "Platinum & Gold" Series of duets in the early 2000s (the CDs were released without Newton's permission). During most of the '90s, Juice Newton spent time touring, horseback riding, and focusing on her family. Newton returned to recording in 1998 with "The Trouble with Angels," a collection of seven re-recorded hits and three new tracks, including the single "When I Get Over You," which failed to chart due to lack of promotion by the now-defunct record label. The 1998 effort was followed by American Girl in 1999, which was Newton's first album of all-new material since 1989 and featured tracks written by Freddie Mercury, Nanci Griffith, Tom Petty and Newton herself. Every Road Leads Back to You (consisting of live material with a bonus EP of four studio recordings of new songs) was released in 2002 with an accompanying DVD, and American Girl Vol. II, which is sold exclusively on cdbaby.com, was released in 2003. In 2005, Juice Newton appeared on the TV show "Hit Me Baby One More Time" where she performed a well-received rendition of Ashlee Simpson's "Pieces Of Me" and a truncated version of "Queen of Hearts"; online voters selected Juice Newton as the best performance of the five acts who appeared on the episode.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Selected Hit Singles

Year Single U.S. Country U.S. Pop U.S. A.C. Album
1977 "It's A Heartache" - 86 - no album, single only
1979 "Let's Keep It That Way" 37 - - no album, single only
1980 "Sunshine" 35 - - Take Heart
1980 "You Fill Up My Life" 41 - - Take Heart
1981 "Angel of the Morning" 22 4 #1 Juice
1981 "Queen of Hearts" 14 2 2 Juice
1982 "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)" #1 7 #1 Juice
1982 "Love's Been a Little Bit Hard on Me" 30 7 4 Quiet Lies
1982 "Break It To Me Gently" 2 11 #1 Quiet Lies
1983 "Heart of the Night" 53 25 4 Quiet Lies
1983 "Tell Her No" - 27 14 Dirty Looks
1984 "A Little Love" 44 54 7 Dirty Looks
1984 "Can't Wait All Night" - 66 - Dirty Looks
1985 "You Want Me to Make You Mine" #1 - - Old Flame
1985 "Hurt" #1 - - Old Flame
1986 "Old Flame" 5 - - Old Flame
1986 "Cheap Love" 9 - - Old Flame
1986 "What Can I Do With My Heart?" 9 - - Emotion
1986 "Both to Each Other (Friends & Lovers)" (with Eddie Rabbitt) #1 - - Old Flame(special edition)
1988 "Tell Me True" 8 - - Emotion
1988 "First Time Caller" 24 - - Emotion

[edit] Studio Albums

  • Juice Newton & Silver Spur (1975) (with Silver Spur)
  • After the Dust Settles (1976) (with Silver Spur)
  • Come To Me (1977) (with Silver Spur)
  • Well Kept Secret (Solo debut, 1978)
  • Take Heart (1979)
  • Juice (1981) cw#4 pop#22-Platinum Canada-3xPlatinum
  • Quiet Lies (1982) pop#20-Gold Canada-Platinum
  • Dirty Looks (1983) c/w#17 pop#52 Canada-Gold
  • Can't Wait All Night (1984) c/w#42 pop#128
  • Old Flame (1985) c/w#12
  • Emotion (1987) c/w#59
  • Ain't Gonna Cry (1989)
  • Platinum & Gold Vol. 1 (Officially unreleased duets CD featuring Melissa Manchester, Willie Nelson, and more)
  • Platinum & Gold Vol. 2 (Officially unreleased duets CD featuring the Pointer Sisters, Eddie Rabbitt, and more)
  • The Trouble With Angels (1998) (Seven re-recorded hits with three new tracks)
  • American Girl (1999)
  • Every Road Leads Back To You (2002) (Two-CD set featuring one live CD and an EP of new material)
  • American Girl Vol. II (2003/2006) (Repackaging of the original with alternate mixes and new songs)

[edit] Compilations

  • The Collection (1983, UK only)
  • The Best of Juice Newton (1983, Japan only, included free 1983 Juice Newton calendar)
  • Greatest Hits (1984/reissued in 1987 with bonus tracks as "Juice Newton's Greatest Hits (and More)" c/w #64; pop #178. RIAA Certified Platinum.
  • Greatest Country Hits (1990)
  • Juice Newton and Silver Spur: The Early Years (1992)
  • Greatest Hits (1992)
  • Emotions (1993, compiles hits and rarities from the RCA label)
  • Anthology (1998, includes 17 hits, the original version of "The Sweetest Thing" from 1975)
  • Queen Of Hearts (1998, South Africa only, an expanded edition of 1987's "Greatest Hits (and More)")
  • Lassos & Spurs (1998, Collection of some hits from the RCA label)
  • Angel (1999) (compiles Newton's biggest hits from the 1978 to 1982)
  • Country Classics (2002, only CD with the original 1981 country version of "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)"
  • All-American Country (2003)
  • The Collection (2003, Low-fi re-recorded versions of 17 hits and three favorites)
  • Juice/Quiet Lies (2004, compiles Newton's two biggest-selling studio albums, with her first Pop hit "It's A Heartache" as a bonus track)
  • The Best of Juice Newton (2005, Re-sequenced re-issue of 1998 "The Trouble with Angels" CD)
  • Hits (2006)
  • Angel of the Morning (2006)

[edit] External links

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