The Joystrings
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The Joystrings were a 1960s UK
Christian
music group
led by Joy Webb, an officer (now retired) in The Salvation Army
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They were the first Salvation Army pop
group achieving chart
success with "It's An Open Secret" and "On A Starry Night". The main members through the years were Joy Webb, Peter and Sylvia Dalziel, Bill Davidson and Wycliffe Noble. The group had a number of other singers who changed, due to them consisting of cadets originating from The Salvation Army's training college in London
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
music group
Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
led by Joy Webb, an officer (now retired) in The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church known for its thrift stores and charity work. It is an international movement that currently works in over a hundred countries....
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They were the first Salvation Army pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
group achieving chart
Record chart
A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
success with "It's An Open Secret" and "On A Starry Night". The main members through the years were Joy Webb, Peter and Sylvia Dalziel, Bill Davidson and Wycliffe Noble. The group had a number of other singers who changed, due to them consisting of cadets originating from The Salvation Army's training college in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
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Singles
- "It's An Open Secret" (1964) - UKUK Singles ChartThe UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
Number 32 - "Million Songs" (1964)
- "A Starry Night" (1964) - UK Number 34
- "He Cares" (1965)
- "Only You" (1965)
- "Christmas Can Be Every Day For You"