The Newton/Young song, ‘Sweet, Sweet Smile’ would also be a big hit in 1978, but not for Newton. Bonnie Tyler recorded her version that same year and, of course, had a hit with it in the UK. She recorded her first hit single in 1977, the Ronnie Scott/Steve Wolfe song ‘It’s a Heartache’, a slow burn track that initially only charted in Mexico but would become a big U.S hit a year later. Juice and Otha Young stayed on at Capital, recording as a unit but under the Juice Newton name. Newton and Young formed country/folk rock band, Juice Newton and Silver Spur, which signed to RCA and released two albums in the mid-1970s before moving to Capital Records fr their third and final album. It was at this time that she met her musical soul mate, Otha Young, a singer and guitarist from Tulare County and they would continue to perform and record together until 2009, when Young died as the result of developing Lung Cancer. She was interested in music from an early age, getting a guitar for her thirteenth birthday and, by the time she went to college in Los Altos Hills, California, she was performing on the folk clubs and coffee houses circuit. It’s even more baffling when you consider that many of the songs she’s known for have been hits for other artists in the UK and other countries.īorn Judy Kay Newton in Lakehurst, New Jersey in the early 1950s, Juice was a play on her first name used by teenage friends, but it has stuck with her throughout her career and she legally changed her name to Juice Newton while still in her twenties. She has a good voice and the looks that seemed to ensure her pop pin-up status yet she has never really clicked with overseas audiences. It’s hard to know why, since Newton has been peddling a form of country-pop/rock, not dissimilar to the early output of Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, for much of her career. Despite all this she remains largely unknown outside of her native U.S.A, her only real international impact being made in Canada and, to a lesser extent, Australia.
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Most recently her version of ‘ Angel of the Morning’, the most prominent recording of her career, was used in the soundtrack for the Carey Mulligan movie “Promising Young Woman”. And she’s still going strong she hasn’t recorded since 2010’s “ Duets: Friends & Memories” but she still performs live from time to time and she has a second career as a successful horse trader.
It seems strange to be asking whatever happened to an artist that has received no less than five Grammy nominations for best Pop/Country Female Vocalist (winning once, in 1983), an American Country Music Award for Top New Female Artist, two Billboard Female Artist of the Year awards and a host of other awards throughout a long and successful career, not to mention the Gold and Platinum albums and something like fourteen top ten hit singles.
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