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Joey Welz Joey has played with some of biggest legends in Rock &
Roll, such as Bill Haley's comets as the featured pianist. He has recorded
over 500 songs in his career has 50 albums & 75 (45) releases as a Caprice
recording artist. Joey is also in the Rock & Roll hall of fame &
the Rockabilly hall of fame. Joey is the acting CEO of Canadian
American Records & Caprice International Records. You can find out more
about the Record company on the services page of this web site, The service
page is here for all the aspiring musicians out there who may be interested
in working with a legend like Joey, To gain the knowledge and wisdom of
his 4 decades in the business & to potentially be helped by his
Label... Joeys included one of his new songs for everyone to enjoy, its a song he's very proud of, it's also in the movie he helped to score. The song is called Forevermore.
Joey's early days . Before becoming a comet in the 60s, I was the worlds first rockabilly piano man (before Jerry Lee). I had the Jay Rockers and the Rock-A-Billies band in my home town of Baltimore. I have recorded over 40 albums and still reissue my early rockabilly records "Boppin' The Stroll" etc. on Caprice Records (USA). Some of Joey's Hits include Boppin the stroll / The mystery of love / Hey little moonbeam / Wooly bully rides again / Rhapsody for a summer night / Baby let your hair hang down / Forever / Candle in the wind / the boogie woogie king of Rock & Roll / Rockabilly / Nashville boogie / Shake rattle & roll / Rock around the clock forever. I'll be offering these GREAT albums in the product's page, Come & check'em out...
Joey's BioJoey Welz was born in Baltimore Maryland in 1940. He grew up listening to rhythm & blues and country music and began playing the piano by ear before he was ten. He was influenced by Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis and later by Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, all of whom have since become personal friends of Joeys. In 1953, Joey went to see Bill Haley and the Comets play live and was turned on to this new kind of music then known as rockabilly. He began to hang out with the Comets and act as band boy for the group when they played in his hometown. Way back then he had a dream which years later became a reality. He became one of Bill Haley's Comets. Heres how it happened. Through the inspiration of Haley, Joey formed his own band in 1955 known as the Jay Rockers. On one of Haley's shows Joey and his band opened for the Comets at the Dixie Ballroom. Rudy Pompilli, the Comet sax man, pointed out to Bill how well Joey played the piano. Bill agreed and after Joey got out of the service, signed him as a featured pianist with the Comets. In 1957, Joey formed a new band known as the Rock-A-Billies. The line up featured: Lou Hinkle on drums, Charlie Shirner on lead guitar and Flurry on stand up bass. By this time, Joey was using the Monumental Studios in Baltimore, and got a more professional sound with Will Taylor at the controls as engineer. Joey formed BAT Records in 1959 and scored with his biggest hits to date: "Boppin' The Stroll Again" and "The Vhistlin' Piano Man". Then he was sent to A. F. N Berlin (West Germany) while in the army and became a DJ and recording engineer for the next three years. "Summer Scene" and "Oh How I Want You Near" were recorded at AFN Berlin. In the 60's Joey went on to have hits for Canadian American Records, Palmer, Audio Fidelity, Swan, Fraternity and Music City Records. In the 70's Joey recorded for Disc-Go, London, and LeCam Records, but did not have major success until the 80's when he worked as president of A&R for Caprice Records. With writing and producing Joey has had 4 chart records on Caprice Records proving that Rock 'n' Roll is here to stay and the Welz can really play...Joey's still knocking out great music to this day ,In 2003 Joey had the opportunity to Act for the first time & write the title track for a Independent movie, You can check it out in the news section.
ContactFor Bookings:Contact: MICHAEL PATRICK, Telephone:717-627-4800 Postal address: BOX-808-LITITZ,PA.17543
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