Joe Dolce

b. 1947, Painesville, Ohio, USA. Of Italian/American extraction, Dolce was supposedly a member of Headstone Circus aka Sugar Creek, an obscure country rock act which released an album Please Tell A Friend, on Metromedia Records in 1968. By 1974, he was touring the USA east coast, fronting a ‘poetry/rock' group, but he emigrated to Australia in 1979 where he formed the Joe Dolce Music Theatre, a cabaret-style act, with Dolce himself playing a character known as Giuseppe. In this guise, he recorded a novelty single, ‘Shaddap You Face', which became a major hit in Australia, and ...