Billy Joe Royal

Birth Name:

Billy Joe Royal

Birth Date:

April 3, 1942

Birth Place:

Valdosta, Georgia

Death Date:

October 6, 2015

Place of Death:

Morehead City, North Carolina

Age:

Cause of Death:

Died in his sleep

Cemetery Name:

Greenwood Cemetery

Claim to Fame:

Music

Billy Joe Royal was a Georgia-born singer who debuted on Columbia Records with "Down in the Boondocks" in 1965, which reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. But he struggled to match his initial success with his subsequent records and starting in the late 1980s, he reinvented himself as a country singer. He was known for songs like "I'll Pin a Note on Your Pillow," ''Tell it Like it is" and "Till I Can't Take it Anymore" and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1988.

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Greenwood Cemetery

2730 Myrtle Street

Morehead City, North Carolina, 28557

USA

North America

Grave Location:

Plot 164

Grave Location Description

As you enter the cemetery drive straight ahead and make a left at the second paved road. Park at the third tree on your right and walk to the edge of the cemetery on your right. Look three rows from the back for singer Billy Joe Royal.