Classic 80's comedy song. Joe Dolce was born in Painesville, Ohio USA and has lived in Australia for many years. + Informações

Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1980: Joe Dolce's promo-video for the hit single 'Shaddup You Face', taken from the 1980 album 'Shaddup You Face'. Artist's Origin: Painesville, Ohio, United States of America Artist's Location: Melbourne, VIC, Australia Track: Shaddup You Face Album: Shaddap You Face Composed By: Joe Dolce Produced By: Label: Full Moon Chart Position: # 1 (EVERYWHERE) Release Date: Footage Information: A Chris Lofven Production Links: - en.wikipedia.org - www.joedolce.net - www.countdown.com.au ---------------------------------------- NZOZ NZOZ1980 1980 Australia Early Eighties 1980's 1980s 80's 80s Musical Terms: Novelty, Comedy, Pop, Aussie, Old Australian (Italian-American) singer/songwriter-performer-solo artist-act. + Informações

Joe Dolce - Shaddap you face 1981 Hello, I'ma Guiseppi, I gotta something speciala for you, Ready, uno, duo, tres, quatro When I was a boy just abouta fiftha grade, Mama used to say don'ta stay out alate With the badda boys, Guiseppi, always shoota pool, goin-ta flunka school Boy it make-a me sick, everyting I gotta do I can'ta getta no kicks, always gotta follow rules Boy it make-a me sick, just to make-a lousy bucks Gotta a feela like a fool And the mama used to say all the time, What's a matter you, hey, gotta no respect Whatta you tink you do, why you looka so sad It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place, Ahh shaddap you face That's-a my mama, I can you remember, big accordian solo But soona come a day, gonna be-a bigga star Thenna make a TV shows and the movies, Getta myself a new car But still I be myself, I never change a thing, Stilla dance and-a sing And think about the mama, she used to say What's a matter you, hey, gotta no respect Whatta you tink you do, why you looka so sad It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place, Ahh shaddap you face Mama she said it alla da time, What'sa matter you, hey, gotta no respect Whatta you think you do, why you looka so sad Itsa not so bad, Itsa nice-a place, Ahh shaddap you face Hello everybody, outs-outta dere in a music and a-TV land Did you know I hadda bigga hitta song in Italy with-a dis, shaddap you face I singa dissa song, alla my fans applaude, they clappa dere hands That make-a me-a feel so good You oughta learna dissa song .... + Informações

Samuel L Jackson giving his interpretation of the Joe Dolce classic,shaddap a yo face,awesome!!!. + Informações

Rare video recorded from Top of the Pops 1981. This song charted Number one believe it or not and he sung it live. Joseph "Joe" Dolce (pronounced /?do?lt?e?/, originally /?do?lts/; born 1947 in Painesville, Ohio) is an American-born, Australian singer/songwriter who achieved fame with his multi-million-selling song, "Shaddap You Face", recorded with his group, Joe Dolce Music Theatre, and released in 1980. The single reached number one in 15 countries, it has sold more than 350000 copies in Australia and an estimated six million worldwide. It reached No. 1 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart for eight weeks from November 1980. The track famously kept Ultravox's "Vienna" off the number one singles spot in the United Kingdom 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, including "Pizza Pizza", "Christmas in Australia" and "You Toucha My Car I Breaka You Face" did not reach the top 40 in Australia. With Van Hek, he formed various performance groups including Skin the Wig, La Somnambule (1984) and Difficult Women (1993). Van Hek and Dolce co-wrote "Intimacy", for the 1984 film, The Terminator's soundtrack. He had continued to perform solo shows and with his longtime partner, Van Hek, as part of their folk music-literary cabaret. .Please visit my other Channel. Keep Rockin!. www.youtube.com. + Informações

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Download Audio: vibedeck.com This videoclip was created by Joe Dolce and Peter Hosking for the premiere of 'Nucountry' TV on Channel 31 Melbourne. This was a bonus multi-media track on the album 'freelovedays'. Thanks for your support and remember: dont bogart that joint!. + Informações

Novelty songs....3 weeks at #1 - 10 weeks on chart .. + Informações

'live' performance from 'Hey Hey It's Saturday'. + Informações

Extremely rare first televised performance of Joe Dolce's 'Shaddap You Face' on 'SHIRL'S NEIGHBOURHOOD' kids show with host Shirley Strachan. This was before the song had been released and had even secured its first record deal. Graeme "Shirley" Strachan (January 2, 1952 - August 29, 2001) was the lead singer of Australian 1970s rock group Skyhooks. Born in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, he was an avid surfer, and his nickname "Shirley" was given to him by his surfer friends because of his long, sunbleached and very curly hair, referring to Shirley Temple. Shirl was killed in a helicopter accident.. + Informações

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Extremely rare 'live' mono video of an early performance of 'Shaddap You Face,' in May 1980, long before the song was recorded and released. The venue was the 'Catch a Rising Star' cabaret in Richmond, VIC, and the backing house band is the same band that was later used on the recording. This Australian audience had never heard of this song before and this clip captures the playfulness and improvisational aspects of the way it originated. It was never performed the same way twice. The sound and picture are slightly degenerated but the magic of the performance is still there.. + Informações

FATHER (written by Joe Dolce 1993) I awake in the night with an ache in my chest, A trapezoid nightmare's denied me my rest, As scene after scene from my childhood quest, Unfolds to the pounding here in my breast, As my well-structured reason comes crashing. I'm not blocking the pain with a needle or drug, But I'm tracking it just like a light in the fog, And I'm using its chisel 'till a channel is dug To the memories behind the pictures that jog All through my sleepless passion. To my father's house in a psychic scene, With his silken touch and his dying dream, And his sweet kiss and his beating fist, And the love of my mother somehow caught in between, All merging in my tossing and turning. I find my father again and he's broad and he's lean, And he's tall like an oak as I fall to my knees, He says, 'Stand up like a man,' once again striking me, And my mother just watches it so passively, With her unspoken glance filled with yearnings. And the anger and deep rage that's burning in my heart, Will clear now in anguish and tears and depart, To free me from the labyrinth dark, On the day that I forgive my father. I clung to my mother like an image in a mirror, Unable to comprehend, paralysed by the fear, Perceiving my father somehow interfered, In this perfect and infantile reflective sphere, In which there could be no other. Maybe my father, yes, didn't expect, that the son he had longed for and finally would get, Now loomed as a threat in this triangle net, Between him .... + Informações

I found this, it's unreal, sung by Joe Dolce LOL So I made this clip as a tribute to Joe Dolce and his very colourrful adaptation of this song and his tribute to Michael Jackson. *L* I feel this is a real classic as there is not hardly any clips made for him such as this *S*. All that is missing is "Molly" with his squeeze box! LOL I wish there was more of Joe Dolce on Youtube, but at least I made this. I want to put this as a film entry to the 2012 Tropfest, so who ever sees this or Joe Dulce I hope they approve LOL I even tried to find the tag for 2012 Tropfest in there, so who knows. I have always wanted to make B grade movies, Have I achieved it? If you want post any comment you like. if you hate it, like it or loath it LOL I just hope it meets Joe Dolce's approval *S* *Please note" Copyright Disclaimer Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statue that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.Etc. + Informações

Rare audience recording of JOE DOLCE and aboriginal elder, GNARNYARRHE INMURRY WAITAIRIE, performing the aboriginal language variation of Joe Dolce's iconic song. Translated by Gnarnyarrhe. Live at LA MAMA theatre, Carlton Vic Australia.. + Informações

I never heard of this song b4..so i thought i would record it off my 45 rpm 7" single record...and of course make a lame video. + Informações

Exceprt from 'Filthy Rich & Catflap', written by Ben Elton. Ade Edmondson and Rik Mayall confront Midge Ure at his house.. + Informações

In 1980-81, this song hit #1 in both the UK and Australia while reaching #53 in the US. Joe was born in Ohio, USA and now resides in Australia. LOL, I'm hoping by posting this, we can make this a hit again. That would be funny!. + Informações

Fake Italian accents by psuedo-Australians are always funny. + Informações

Joe Dolce - Shaddup You Face February 15 March 7 1981 spent 3 weeks at number 1 in the uk singles chart. + Informações

This infamous b-side of 'Shaddap You Face' features Lin Van Hek on backing vocals. It was the first recording we ever sang on on and we are still singing together after 30 years. The 'Chris Lofven' mentioned in the middle part is the film maker and director of the original videoclip for 'Shaddap You Face'. Chris is a legend in Australian pop history having made clips for just about every single important band from the mid- 70s onward. He made a mind-boggling contribution to Australian pop culture when videoclips were still cutting edge. The song itself caused me no end of grief. Don't get me wrong - I love it - but I forgot that I had assigned the publishing rights to a US publisher back in the early 70s, when I was just an ignorant kid (compared to the ignorant adult I now am) and after 'Shaddap You Face' started making some money, he came out of the woodwork demanding something like '60%' of the royalties - as publishers tend to do. (They should all be fed heavy pasta, tied to lawyers and thrown into Mt Vesuvius with Tom Cruise and Xenu.) But I digress . . . So I was forced to take legal action and I hired Bruce Springsteen's lawyers in New York and asked them to 'make him an offer that . . . . possibly involved hanging on a meathook.' Well, they couldnt do that but they did hit him with a fraud suit. They explained their legal philosophy: 'We like to hit them in the stomach and then negotiate in the hospital.' I could live with that. Anyway, I had to pay something (not .... + Informações

Buy the Single on iTunes: bit.ly 'Dead Cat Bounce' is the new single from Joe Dolce, the writer and performer of one of the most popular and successful songs in the world. In 1980-81, 'Shaddap You Face' was Number One in fifteen countries with hundreds of cover versions including variations by artists as diverse as Lou Monte, KRS-ONE, Samuel L. Jackson, EMF, Sheila and Andrew Sachs (Manuel of Fawlty Towers.) There have been over 15 different foreign language cover versions including one in Papua New Guinean pidgin and the Aboriginal dialect of Indjibundji. 'Dead Cat Bounce' was first selected and published as a stand-alone poem by one of the greatest poets and editors in the English language, LES MURRAY, in the November 2011 issue of Quadrant Magazine. THE PROJECT: So far, in 2011, Les Murray has selected over 29 of Joe's poems for publication, including 17 new songlyrics. These song/poems will form the material of Joe's as yet untitled new album. 'Dead Cat Bounce' is the first single release. For more information: dolcej@yahoo.com DEAD CAT BOUNCE When your blue chip is starting to look much bluer and your speculative has just lost its life and you buying in at the bottom is like trying to catch a falling knife your dollar is more expensive by the hour your gold is getting cheaper by the ounce you're calling every twitch a rebound friend it's the Dead Cat Bounce. Well nobody is buying what you're selling because nobody can hear you shout your broker is turning into your .... + Informações

Joseph "Joe" Dolce (pronounced /?do?lt?e?/, originally /?do?lts/; 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. The single reached number one in 15 countries, it has sold more than 350000 copies in Australia, remaining the most successful Australian produced single in music history for thirty-one years and selling an estimated six million worldwide. It reached No. 1 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart for eight weeks from November 1980. The track kept Ultravox's "Vienna" off the number one singles spot in the United Kingdom. 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 artists 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 Vietnamese refugees?which he donated to the fledgling Vietnamese community starting to form in Melbourne. His one-man show, Joe Dolce Music 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 .... + Informações

Excerpt from 'Memphis Minnie' performed by Joe Dolce & The Peace Creepz 'live in concert' at The Comedy Club, Melbourne, Australia. With Matthew Arnold, Jaimie Jones and Kate Hosking.. + Informações