Terry Jacks

In 1996, Jacks produced the CD "A Good Thing Lost 1968-1973" that was a collection of The Poppy Family songs.
. and lending his name to United Kingdom organizations such as The Woodland Trust.
. He has also involved himself with the environmental movement, focusing on issues such as pollution and environmental health in Canada and the U.S.
. Terry Jacks wrote and recorded a number of other songs plus he went on to become a successful record producer for other Canadian singers, earning a Juno nomination as Producer of the Year.
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In the United States, the song went to No.1 on the charts. A diabetic for over ten years, King has been a visible spokesman in the fight against diabetes and has appeared in adverisements for diabetes-management products. Released in 1973 on his own record label, the song became the largest-selling single in Canadian history and earned Jacks three Juno Awards. King has been a licensed pilot, a known gambler and is also a vegetarian, non-drinker and non-smoker. When the group chose not to go with it on their album, Jacks decided to do it himself but first set about to rewrite the final verse and to rearrange parts of the chorus. King claims to have had sex before age 10 and purports to have fathered well over fifteen children, all to different mothers. Jacks' marriage also dissolved, although he and his wife remained friends and he produced her first solo album in 1973. Working on his own, Terry Jacks helped on a Beach Boys album that initially included the recording of an English language version of the 1961 Jacques Brel song, Seasons In The Sun. Nearly 80, King has lived a very full and very active life.

The Poppy Family won for the Juno for best group and immediately followed up with "Poppy Seeds" but it never achieved anything close to that initial success and eventually The Poppy Family split up. King had also donated his extensive blues collection to the Ole Miss Center for Southern Studies. The single won a Juno Award while Terry Jacks earned two Junos for best producer of a single and of an album. In 2004, King was awarded an honarary Ph.D from the University of Mississippi. They eked out a living until 1969 when their band burst onto the national charts with their Terry Jacks produced debut album titled "Which Way You Goin' Billy? " that saw the 45rpm single go to No.1 in Canada and reach No.2 on the Billboard charts in the United States, selling upwards of three million copies. In 2000, King teamed up with guitarist Eric Clapton to record Riding With the King. Jacks and Pesklevits soon developed a personal relationship that led to marriage. In 1988 he reached a new generation of fans via the single "When Love Comes To Town", together with the Irish band U2.

For a time the duo performed at small clubs in Vancouver before adding another guitarist and drummer and restyling themselves as the "The Poppy Family.". The 1980s, 1990s and 2000s saw King recording less and less, but maintaining a highly visible and active career appearing on numerous television shows, major motion pictures and performing 300 nights a year. Jacks composed, arranged, and produced their material while Pesklevits sang lead vocals. King's mainstream success continued throughout the 1970s with songs like "To Know You Is to Love You" and "I Like to Live the Love." From 1951 to 1985, King appeared on Billboard's R&B charts an amazing 74 times. Growing up as part of the hippie generation a teenage Terry Jacks migrated to the west coast where, as a guitarist and singer, he joined a Vancouver, British Columbia band called "The Chessmen." The group had a few minor local hits before disbanding after which Jacks teamed up with soloist, Susan Pesklevits (born 1948). King first found success outside of the blues market with the 1969 remake of the Roy Hawkins tune, "The Thrill Is Gone," which became a hit on both pop and R&B charts, which is rare for an R&B artist even today. Terry Jacks (born March 29, 1944 in Winnipeg) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and environmentalist. In November of 1964, King recorded the legendary Live at the Regal album at the Regal Theater in Chicago.

In the 1950s, King became one of the most important names in R&B music, collecting an impressive list of hits under his belt that included songs like "You Know I Love You," "Woke Up This Morning," "Please Love Me," "When My Heart Beats like a Hammer," "Whole Lotta' Love," "You Upset Me Baby," "Every Day I Have the Blues," "Sneakin' Around," "Ten Long Years," "Bad Luck," "Sweet Little Angel," "On My Word of Honor," and "Please Accept My Love." In 1962, King signed to ABC-Paramount Records. Many of King's early recordings were produced by Sam Phillips, who would eventually found the legendary Sun Records. In 1949, King began recording songs under contract with Los Angeles based RPM Records. The name was then shortened to just Blues Boy and, eventually, simply B.B..

On the air, King started out using the name The Pepticon Boy, which later became the Beale Street Blues Boy. Eventually, King began broadcasting his music live on Memphis radio station WDIA, a station that had only recently changed their format to play all-black music which was extremely rare at the time. Three years later, King moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he finely tuned his guitar technique with the help of his cousin, country blues guitarist Bukka White. In 1943, King moved to Indianola, Mississippi.

King was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi. At an early age, King developed a love for blues artists like T-Bone Walker and Lonnie Johnson and jazz artists like Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. Soon King was cultivating his own musical skills singing Gospel music in church. King has said he was paid 35 cents for each 100 pounds of cotton he picked before discovering his other talents. King spent much of his childhood sharing time living with his mother and his grandmother and working as a sharecropper.

King named that first guitar Lucille, as well as every one he owned since that near-fatal experience, "to remind me never to do a thing like that again.". The next day, King discovered that the two men were fighting over a woman named Lucille. Two people died in the fire. He entered the blaze to retrieve his guitar, a Gibson acoustic.

Once outside, King realized that he had left his guitar inside the burning building. This triggered an evacuation. During a performance, two men began to fight, knocking over the burning barrel and sending burning fuel across the floor. In order to heat the hall, a barrel half-filled with kerosene was lit, a not uncommon practice.

In the winter of 1949, King played at a dance hall in Twist, Arkansas. One of King's trademarks is naming his guitars "Lucille", a tradition that began in the 1950s. King (born September 16, 1925), a well known American blues guitarist and songwriter. B.

King aka B. Riley B. Online video, photo gallery, and full biography avaliable at Achievement.org (http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/kin2int-1).