Respected LadyLand - Joy Byers: Early 1960s Songwriter
3:00pm, 6-28-2025
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You know, often times on vintage records a songwriting credit may only be a last name. So, every once in a while, after playing a record for years, I’ll find out that it was written by a woman. That’s the case with many of the records featured on this episode filled with songs written by the mysterious songwriter Joy Byers.
I wish I could tell you this episode would be filled with interesting information about Joy’s life and career. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any. So, let this episode be a reminder of how little consideration women are given by music writers and historians.
I want you to think about that as you are listening to the Joy Byers songbook.
- 3:03pm Ring Dang Doo by Jerry Murad's Harmonicats on What's New Harmonicats? (Columbia)
- 3:05pm Come on Everybody by Elvis Presley on Viva Las Vegas EP (RCA)
- 3:07pm Ring Dang Doo by Demetriss Tapp on single (Brunswick)
- 3:09pm Thats What I'd Do by Mike Smith on single (Era)
- 3:12pm Just Dance On By by Eydie Gorme on single (Columbia)
- 3:14pm It Hurts Me by Living Guitars (prod by Ethel Gabriel) on Music From The Pink Panther And Other Hits (RCA)
- 3:17pm Go on Back to Him by Solomon Burke on single (Atlantic)
- 3:19pm Until You Were Gone by Betty Everett on Hot To Hold (Charly)
- 3:22pm In the middle of the night by Chris Cerf on single (MGM)
- 3:25pm Looking For My Baby by GLORIA Brown on 45 (Checker)
- 3:27pm The Hurt by Jimmy Church on single (Okeh)
- 3:31pm Let Yourself Go by Elvis Presley on 45 (RCA)
- 3:32pm She'll Be Gone by Betty O'Brien on single (Liberty)
- 3:34pm Ring Dang Doo by Fung Po Po (from Singapore) on EP (Tung Po)
- 3:36pm They Say by The Mojos on single (Decca)
- 3:39pm Stop, Look, Listen by Linda Gayle on 45 (Columbia)
- 3:41pm Of Hopes And Dreams And Tombstones by Jimmy Fraser on 45 (Columbia)
- 3:43pm Of Hopes And Dreams And Tombstones (Instrumental) by Jimmy Fraser on single (columbia)
- 3:46pm What's A Matter Baby by The Small Faces on single (Decca)
- 3:48pm Aint It Funny by Gerri Granger on single (Big Top)
- 3:50pm If You Were There by Obrey Wilson on single (Columbia)
- 3:52pm Low Grades and High Fever by Linda Laine & The Sinners on single (Tower)
- 3:54pm She Was My Baby (He Was My Friend) by Jerry Lee Lewis on single (Smash)
- 3:57pm Them Terrible Boots by The Orlons on 45 (Cameo)