Col Joye

Col Joye's first regular singing engagement was as warm-up act for the movie The Tommy Steele Story at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney, Australia.

When Conway Twitty toured Australia in 1960 he met and was impressed by Joye, writing a country flavoured song entitled Bad Man especially for him. The record became an Australian Top 20 hit in April 1960.

Joye and his brothers Kevin and Keith demonstrated their business expertise early in their careers by establishing Joye Enterprises and their own publishing company, Joye Music, in 1960. 

In 1966 Joye established his own record label, called ATA.  Artists signed to the label included Little Pattie, Johnny Devlin, Laurie Alien, Sandy Scott, Judy Stone and Andy Gibb.