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Juice Newton was born Judy Kay Newton 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 successful recording career. To date, Newton has sold more than 13 million albums and notched 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, Quiet Lies and Greatest Hits.
Early CareerShortly after she graduated from high school, Juice Newton's band Juice Newton and Silver Spur was signed to RCA Records. The group released two albums (in 1975 and 1976) and scored only one low-charting country 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 (but remained with Capitol Records), 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 solo record and her first Hot 100 pop hit. The single became a major hit in Mexico and was certified Gold there by the end of 1978. Also, in 1978, The Carpenters recorded the Newton-penned song "Sweet, Sweet Smile"; the single reached #7 on the Country chart and #44 on the Pop chart.
In 1981, Newton's third solo album, simply titled Juice, was released. It contained her biggest country hits up to that point, 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", was released from Juice in 1984 to support her first Greatest Hits album. Pop music successJuice 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 album to be targeted solely at the country market. In 1982, Newton received two Grammy nominations for Best Female Vocalist: for "Angel of the Morning" in the Pop category, and "Queen of Hearts" in the Country category. The singles for "Queen of Hearts" and "Angel of the Morning" each sold an excess of one million copies each in the U.S., both earning RIAA Gold certifications. The songs were also Top-10 hits in Australia, Germany, Holland and other countries. Later in 1982, Newton released her fourth solo 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 hit "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 contemporaries Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Rosanne Cash) was the follow-up single. 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. The album also garnered Newton an award from Australia as the "Top International Country Artist" of the continent. Career evolution: from pop to country
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 rock-oriented sound. The launch single "A Little Love" and the title track became her final charting pop singles to date, reaching #44 and #66, respectively -- while "Restless Heart" 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, Newton would release her most commercially successful country album yet with Old Flame, which reached #12 on the chart and 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, even though it was recorded first) 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". 1995 to todayIn 1995, Newton recorded a double-album of pop duets (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 CD set was released without Newton's permission). During most of the '90s, Juice Newton spent her 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". The 1998 effort was quickly 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 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. In mid-2000s, Newton also contributed tracks to the albums "An All-Star Tribute To Cher" and "An All-Star Tribute to Shania Twain". DiscographySelected singles
Studio and live albums
Compilations
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