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Juice Newton, born Judy Kay Cohen 18 February 1952 in Lakehurst, New Jersey (though she grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia) is an American pop music and country singer. To date, Newton has received a total of five Grammy nominations for Best Female Vocalist and a CMA Award for Best New Female Artist. She has several Gold and Platinum records to her credit, including Juice, Old Flame, Quiet Lies and Greatest Hits.

Early career

Juice Newton, Otha Young and Tom Kealey formed a band in the early 1970's and, due to local success, Juice Newton and Silver Spur was signed to RCA Records. The group released two RCA albums (in 1975 and 1976) and scored only one charting country single with "Love Is a Word". The band signed with Capitol in 1977, but disbanded shortly after releasing one album for the label. In 1978, 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 one-off single "It's a Heartache" became Newton's first solo record and a major hit in Mexico, where it eventually went Gold. In 1978, Newton released the song in the United States, and it became her first Hot 100 pop hit. However, Bonnie Tyler's cover of the song was released one week later and eclipsed Newton's version on the pop charts, with Newton's stalling at #86 and Tyler's climbing to #3. Also, in 1978, The Carpenters recorded the Newton-penned song "Sweet, Sweet Smile"; the single, which was co-written by Otha Young, reached #7 on both the Country and Adult Contemporary charts and #44 on the pop chart.

Newton's solo debut album, Well Kept Secret, was released in 1978. The album saw Newton cultivating a rock sound, and it stands as Newton's most rock-oriented record, to date. Unfortunately, the record nor its single ("Hey Baby") charted, but the album did sell well enough for Capitol Records to renew Newton's contract. Capitol's investment in Newton began to pay off in 1979, when Newton had her first country top-40 hit with "Let's Keep It That Way" (another one-off single). Later that year, the album Take Heart featured five modestly charting singles: "Until Tonight", "Any Way That You Want Me", "You Fill My Life", "Lay Back In The Arms of Someone" and "Sunshine". The latter became Newton's second top-40 single on the country charts (in 1980), with "You Fill My Life" reaching #41. Both of Newton's initial solo efforts performed with modest success but failed to have a lasting impact on the album charts.

Pop music success

In 1981, Newton's third solo album, simply titled Juice, was released. It spawned 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 appeared on the 1975 Silver Spur debut album), which earned her the first of several country #1 hits. A fourth top-40 country hit, "Ride 'Em Cowboy", was mined from Juice in 1984 to support her first Greatest Hits album.

Juice 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: one for "Angel of the Morning" in the Pop category, and another for "Queen of Hearts" in the Country category. The singles for those songs each sold an excess of one million copies each in the United States, with 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" was the second single from the 1982 album, and it hit #11 on the Pop charts, stayed at #1 on Adult Contemporary for three weeks, hit #2 on the Billboard country charts. The record, a cover of a Brenda Lee hit from the '60s, won Newton a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, beating out contemporaries Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Rosanne Cash. 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

The direction for Newton's sixth (and final) Capitol album Dirty Looks was decidedly more rock and experimental than her usual blending of folk, pop and country styles. "Dirty Looks" spawned a #27 pop/#14 AC hit "Tell Her No" (a '60s hit for the Zombies) and the title track, a rock number that charted low in the Hot 100. The country-oriented single "Stranger at My Door" had a brief stay on the country charts, but failed to sustain Newton's popularity with country radio. The album was a moderate success, going Silver (250,000 copies sold) in the United States and Gold in Canada.

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 Billboard 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".

1994 to today

In 1994, Newton contributed a track called "Lovers Of One Day" to the Edith Piaf tribute album, which also included songs by Pat Benatar and Donna Summer.

In 1995, she 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 low-impact, "accidental" release of the "Platinum & Gold" series of duets in the early 2000s (the CD set was released without Newton's permission). Subsequently, bootleg CDs including most of the duets turned up on U.S. store shelves as "Gold & Platinum, Volumes 7 and 8". Those CDs also contain 1995 solo versions of three of Newton's pop hits ("Angel of the Morning", "Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me" and "Queen of Hearts"). During most of the '90s, Juice Newton spent her time touring sporadically, 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 the single "They Never Made It To Memphis". The collection featured tracks written by Otha Young, 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 and at Newton's live shows, was released in 2003.

In 2005, Juice Newton appeared on the TV show "Hit Me Baby One More Time" where she performed a well-received rendition of Ashlee Simpson's "Pieces Of Me" and a truncated version of "Queen of Hearts"; online voters selected Juice Newton's performance as their favorite 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".

In April 2007, Newton announced on her official Web site that she will release her first Christmas album in winter of 2007. It includes a new version of "Christmas Needs Love To Be Christmas", as well as a new, expanded version of "For Believers", an Otha Young-penned song she first recorded in 1983 for her "Dirty Looks" album.

Discography

Selected Singles

YearTitleUS CountryUS Hot 100 US AC Album
1977"It's a Heartache"-86-
1979"Let's Keep It That Way"37--
1980"Sunshine"35--Take Heart
1980"You Fill My Life"41--Take Heart
1981"Angel of the Morning"2241Juice
1981"Queen of Hearts"1422Juice
1982"The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)"171Juice
1982"Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me"3074Quiet Lies
1982"Break It to Me Gently"2111Quiet Lies
1983"Heart of the Night"53254Quiet Lies
1983"Tell Her No"-2714Dirty Looks
1983"Dirty Looks"-90-Dirty Looks
1983"Stranger At My Door"45--Dirty Looks
1984"Ride 'Em Cowboy"32--Greatest Hits
1984"A Little Love"54447Can't Wait All Night
1984"Can't Wait All Night"-66-Can't Wait All Night
1984"Restless Heart"57--Can't Wait All Night
1985"You Make Me Want to Make You Mine"1--Old Flame
1985"Hurt"1--Old Flame
1986"Old Flame"5--Old Flame
1986"Cheap Love"9--Old Flame
1986"What Can I Do With My Heart?"9--Old Flame
1986"Both to Each Other (Friends & Lovers)" (with Eddie Rabbitt)1--Old Flame (re-issue)
1988"Tell Me True"8--Emotion
1988"First Time Caller"24--Emotion
1989"When Love Comes Around the Bend"40--Ain't Gonna Cry
1998"When I Get Over You"---The Trouble With Angels
1999"They Never Made It To Memphis"---American Girl

Studio and live albums

  • Juice Newton & Silver Spur (1975/re-issued in 1981) (with Silver Spur)
  • After the Dust Settles (1976/re-issued in 1981) (with Silver Spur)
  • Come To Me (1977/re-issued in 1981) (with Silver Spur)
  • Well Kept Secret (Solo debut, 1978/re-issued in 1981)
  • Take Heart (1979/re-issued in 1981)
  • Juice (1981/re-issued in 1997, 2003 and 2006) cw#4 pop#22-Platinum Canada-3xPlatinum
  • Quiet Lies (1982/re-issued in 1990, 2003 and 2006) ... pop#20 Gold, Canada-Platinum
  • Dirty Looks (1983/re-ssued in 2007) ... c/w#17, pop#52, Canada Gold
  • Can't Wait All Night (1984) ... c/w#42, pop#128
  • Old Flame (1985/re-issued in 1988 and 2007) ... c/w#12
  • Emotion (1987) ... c/w#59
  • Ain't Gonna Cry (1989)
  • Platinum & Gold Vol. 1 (1995, Officially unreleased duets CD featuring Melissa Manchester, Willie Nelson, and more)
  • Platinum & Gold Vol. 2 (1995, Officially unreleased duets CD featuring the Pointer Sisters, Eddie Rabbitt, and more)
  • The Trouble With Angels (1998) (Seven re-recorded hits with three new tracks)
  • American Girl (1999)
  • Every Road Leads Back To You (2002) (Two-CD set featuring one live CD and an EP of new material)
  • American Girl Vol. II (2003/re-isssued in 2006) (Expanded edition of the original with alternate mixes and new songs)
  • The Gift of Christmas (2007) (not yet released)

Compilations

  • The Collection (1983, UK only)
  • The Best of Juice Newton (1983, Japan only, included free 1983 Juice Newton calendar)
  • Greatest Hits (1984/reissued in 1987 with bonus tracks as "Juice Newton's Greatest Hits (and More)") c/w #64; pop #178. RIAA Certified Platinum.
  • Greatest Country Hits (1990)
  • Juice Newton and Silver Spur: The Early Years (1992)
  • Greatest Hits (1992)
  • Emotions (1993, compiles hits and rarities from the RCA label)
  • Anthology (1998, includes 17 hits and the original version of "The Sweetest Thing" from 1975)
  • Queen Of Hearts (1998, South Africa only, an expanded edition of 1987's "Greatest Hits (and More)")
  • Lassos & Spurs (1998, Collection of hits from the RCA label)
  • Angel (1999) (compiles Newton's biggest hits from the 1978 to 1982)
  • Country Classics (2002, only CD with the original 1981 country version of "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)", "Come To Me" and "A Love Like Yours"
  • All-American Country (2003)
  • The Collection (2003, Low-fi re-recorded versions of 17 hits and three favorites)
  • Juice/Quiet Lies [Raven Records remastered edition] (2003, compiles Newton's two biggest-selling studio albums, with her first Hot 100 hit "It's A Heartache" as a bonus track)
  • The Best of Juice Newton (2005, Re-sequenced re-issue of 1998 "The Trouble with Angels" CD with new artwork)
  • Hits (2006, includes nine tracks from "The Trouble with Angels" album)
  • Juice/Quiet Lies [Collectables edition] (2006)
  • Old Flame/Dirty Looks [Raven Records remastered edition] (2007, compiles Newton's hit albums "Old Flame" and "Dirty Looks"; bonus track is "Both To Each Other")

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