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It should’ve happened… multiple hits, a massive career, world recognition and all the rest.

Joey Paige

 

Discarded, forgotten…

Joey Paige has been selling real estate––hopefully

quite successfully––25+ years. There was a time

a half-century ago when it look like this young

man was going to make a big, big-time music

career. As a bass player he accompanied Dickie

Do and the Don’ts (remember “Nee Nan ), Freddy

Cannon, and toured with the intact Everly Brothers.

When TV 60s sensation Shindig happened Joey was enlisted as something of a regular. Two singles were

rapidly issued on Tollie Records (legendary label with a 14 month existence), both produced by Sonny

Bono; one co-written by Phil Spector (“Dream For Sale”), the other by Rolling Stone man Bill Wyman

(“’Cause I’m in love with you,” Give a listen). Befriended Stone Brian Jones played on one 45s. The Stones

while in LA got to crash in his apartment; to compensate Joey got to be the open act for the Stones on one

of their early US tours.

In a 2013 interview, Joey noted he hadn’t figured on the impending crash; the shut down of Shindig. Next

a single for Vee Jee produced by Marshall Lieb (formerly a member of Specters’ Teddy Bears), a double-

sided oldie––“Goodnight My Love” b/w “Roll over Beethoven.” A final Phillips disk, a remake of Shep &

the Limelites’ “Daddys Home”…like all of the former 45 failed click.

Before the walk away Joey Paige, as bass man, toured with Phil Everly recording a demo (available You

Tube), the co-written “You Broke It.”