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Infobox musical artist| name = Joe Dolce| image = Joedolcesteps.jpg| alt = Sparsely haired man sitting on back door steps, wearing jeans, boots, black T-shirt and sun glasses. Rests left elbow on left knee with left forefinger pointing to his right. Right fist hidden inside left hand and he is facing forward.| caption = Joe Dolce, 2005| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = Birth year and age|1947| death_date =| origin = Painesville, Ohio , United States of America| genre = Pop music|pop | occupation = singer-songwriter| years_active = 1978& ndash;current| label = Full Moon/ Astor Records|Astor , Hammard, PolyGram | associated_acts = Joe Dolce Music Theatre,| website = http://www.joedolce.net joedolce.net| notable_instruments = Joseph "Joe" Dolce cite web|publisher= Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)|title="Shaddap You Face" at APRA search engine|url= http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd? q=Shaddap%20You%20Face|accessdate=9 January 2010 (IPAc-en|icon|'|d|o?|l|t?|e?, originally IPAc-en|'|d|o?|l|t|s; born 1947 in Painesville, Ohio ) is an American-born, Australian singer/songwriter who achieved fame with his multi-million-selling song, " Shaddap You Face ", released under the name of his one-man show, Joe Dolce Music Theatre , in 1980.cite encyclopedia|last=McFarlane|first=Ian|authorlink=Ian McFarlane|encyclopedia= Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop |title=Encyclopedia entry for 'Joe Dolce'|url= http://web.archive.org/web/20040419071139/www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp? articleid=288|accessdate=10 January 2010|year=1999|publisher= Allen & Unwin |location= St Leonards, New South Wales|St Leonards, NSW |isbn=1-86508-072-1cite book|title=The Who's Who of Australian Rock|chapter=DOLCE, Joe|chapterurl= http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/PHPTracks.php? Band_ID=59580|last=Spencer|first=Chris|coauthors=Zbig Nowara, Paul McHenry with notes by Ed Nimmervoll |origyear=1987|year=2002|publisher=Five Mile Press|location= Noble Park, Victoria|Noble Park , Vic.|page=|isbn=1-86503-891-1|accessdate=9 January 2010 Note: on-line version established at http://www.whiteroom.com.au/howlspace/whoswho/aboutww.htm White Room Electronic Publishing Pty Ltd in 2007 and was expanded from the 2002 edition.cite book|title= Kent Music Report|Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 |last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book Ltd|location= St Ives, New South Wales|St Ives, NSW |year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|accessdate=10 January 2010 NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1974 until Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA created their own ARIA Charts|charts in mid-1988. In 1992, Kent back calculated chart positions for 1970–1974. The single reached number one in 15 countries, http://www.joedolce.net/ Joe Dolce official site - biography it has sold more than 350,000+ copies in Australia, remaining the most successful Australian produced single in music history for thirty-one years and selling an estimated six million worldwide.cite book|title=Molly Meldrum presents 50 years of rock in Australia|last=Jenkins|first=Jeff|coauthors= Ian Meldrum |chapter=Chapter 22: Joe Dolce|pages=167–168|year=2007|publisher=Wilkinson Publishing|location= Melbourne, Victoria|Melbourne, Vic |isbn=978-1-921332-11-1 It reached No. 1 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart for eight weeks from November 1980. The track kept Ultravox 's " Vienna (Ultravox song)|Vienna " off the number one singles spot in the United Kingdom.cite book|title= Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums|Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles and Albums (18th edition)|first=David|last=Roberts|year=2005|isbn=1-904994-00-8|pages=14|publisher= HiT Entertainment|Guinness World Records Limited
Biography
Dolce was born in 1947 in Painesville, Ohio and formed various bands including Headstone Circus. with Jonathan Edwards (musician) who subsequently went on as a solo artist to have a charting hit song in the US 'Sunshine'. Dolce relocated to Melbourne , Australia in 1978 and his first single there was "Boat People"—a protest song on the poor treatment of Vietnam ese refugees—which was translated into Vietnamese and donated to the fledgling Vietnamese community starting to form in Melbourne. His one-man show, Joe Dolce Music Theatre, Musical theatre|performed in cabarets and pubs with various line-ups including Lin Van Hek as singer/performance artist.
In July 1980 he recorded the self-penned " Shaddap You Face ", for Full Moon Records label at Mike Brady's new studios in West Melbourne . When in Ohio, Dolce would sometimes visit his Italy|Italian grandparents—they supplied the inspiration with "What's the matter, you? " and "Eh, shaddap". He wrote the song about Italians living in Australia and first performed it at Marijuana House, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Victoria|Fitzroy in 1979. Dolce paid Australian dollar|A$ 500 for the recording and spent $1000 on the music video clip, which was created by Melbourne filmmaker, Chris Lofven . It became a multi-million-selling hit, peaking at No. 1 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart for eight weeks from November 1980, in UK from February 1981 for three weeks, also No. 1 in Austria ,cite web|url= http://austriancharts.at/showinterpret.asp? interpret=Joe+Dolce+Music+Theatre|title=Discographie Joe Dolce Music Theatre|publisher=Austrian Charts Portal|accessdate=10 January 2010 Note: Some information is in German. New Zealand cite web|url= http://charts.org.nz/showinterpret.asp? interpret=Joe+Dolce+Music+Theatre|title=Discography Joe Dolce Music Theatre|publisher=New Zealand Charts Portal|accessdate=10 January 2010 and Switzerland .cite web|url= http://hitparade.ch/showinterpret.asp? interpret=Joe+Dolce+Music+Theatre|title=Discographie Joe Dolce Music Theatre|publisher=Swiss Charts Portal|accessdate=10 January 2010 Note: Some information is in German.cite web|url= http://www.australian-charts.com/showitem.asp? interpret=Joe+Dolce+Music+Theatre& titel=Shaddap+You+Face& cat=s|title=Joe Dolce Music Theatre - Shaddap You Face|publisher=Australian Charts Portal|accessdate=10 January 2010 Dolce received the Advance Australia Award in 1981.cite web|url= http://www.countdown.com.au/artist/joe-dolce|title=Joe Dolce|publisher= Countdown (Australian TV series) |accessdate=12 January 2010
Follow up single, "If You Want to Be Happy" charted in Austria (No. 7) and New Zealand (top 40) but not in Australia. Dolce's subsequent singles included "Pizza Pizza", "Christmas in Australia" and "You Toucha My Car I Breaka You Face" and he released two albums during this period, 'Shaddap You Face' and 'The Christmas Album'. With Lin Van Hek, he formed various performance groups including Skin the Wig, La Somnambule (1984) and the ongoing Difficult Women (1993). Van Hek and Dolce co-wrote "Intimacy",cite web|publisher=Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)|title="Intimacy" at APRA search engine|url= http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd? q=Intimacy|accessdate=10 January 2010 for the 1984 film, The Terminator (soundtrack)|The Terminator s soundtrack album|soundtrack .cite web |url= http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm? requesttimeout=300& mode=results& searchstr=508060379& search_in=i& search_type=exact& search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v& results_pp=20& start=1|title="Terminator Cues" at The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) |publisher= American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers|ASCAP |accessdate=10 January 2010 He has continued to perform solo shows and with his longtime partner, Van Hek, as part of their music-literary cabaret Difficult Women .
Over the last two years Dolce has achieved recognition as a serious poet and essayist winning the 25th Launceston Poetry Cup in Tasmania and having thirty poems and lyrics selected by Les Murray (poet)|Les Murray for publication in Quadrant (magazine) . Quadrant also published two of his essays: "Biblical Imagery in the Songwriting of the Creative Infidels: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and Paul Kelly" (Jan-Feb 2012) and "Hey Mr Cowbell Man: Sir Christopher Ricks' Dylan's Visions of Sin" (2012). He has also had work published in Meanjin, Island, Cordite 35, Eye of the Telescope 2, Carmenta, Journey, Italian Essays and Divan. His first book of poetry HATBOX was released in 2010.
Discography & Books
Albums
Shaddap You Face (Full Moon, 1981)
Christmas in Australia (Hammard, 1981)
Memoirs of a Mouth Organ (1997)
Difficult Women (1998)
Steal Away Home (1999)
FreeLoveDays (2000)
Flower (2001)
The Wind Cries Mary (2007)
Singles
"Boat People" (1979)
" Shaddap You Face " (Full Moon, 1980)
"If You Want to Be Happy" (Full Moon, May 1981) Austria|AUT No. 7, RIANZ|NZL No. 33
*"Reggae Matilda" (1981)
"Christmas in Australia" (November 1981)
"You Toucha My Car I Breaka You Face" (June 1982)
"Pizza Pizza" (Fable, 1984)
"Vaffanculo Polka" (February 1989)
"Dead Cat Bounce" (November 2011)
Books
"Hatbox (poetry)" (2010)
References
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External links
http://www.joedolce.net Official website
http://www.countdown.com.au/artist/joe-dolce Joe Dolce Countdown biography
http://deadcatbounce.us Dead Cat Bounce 2012
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