#65: Shaddup You Face by Joe Dolce
City: Montreal, PQ
Radio Station: CKGM
Peak Month: March 1981
Peak Position in Montreal ~ #1
Peak position in Vancouver ~ did not chart
Peak Position on Billboard Hot 100 ~ #53
Peak Position on pop charts in Australia, Austria,
Belgium, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa,
Switzerland, the UK and West Germany ~ #1
YouTube: “Shaddup You Face”
Lyrics: “Shaddup You Face”
Joe Dolce was born in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1947. He acted in a number of plays out of high school, and was in a band called Headstone Circus with singer-songwriter Jonathan Edwards (who had a #4 hit in 1972 titled “Sunshine”). In the late 70s he moved to Melbourne, Australia. In 1978 and his first single there was “Boat People”—a protest song about the poor treatment of Vietnamese refugees. It was translated into Vietnamese, and donated to the fledgling Vietnamese community starting to form in Melbourne. His one-man show, Joe Dolce Music Theatre, was performed in cabarets and pubs.