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Show Grandpa's advice led to songs by the hundred.. by JAMES LEASQR WHEN Archie Joyce was a little lad his grandfather, one-time one-time confectioner at Buckingham Palace to 'Queen Victoria, used often to take him on one side and hold forth with two precepts of his faith. "One," he would say, " when you grow up, treat all men as rogues until you find 'em different. " Two, a 1 w a y s persevere. Never let things gel you down." In the years between then and now Archibald Joyce fried nut this sage advice and did not find it wanting. Remember ? rTTHIS week, celebrating I his 80i h birthday, he had no belter advice to give any other youngster starting out to make his successful success-ful way through a naughty world. Archibald Joyce . . . the name rings a dis-anl bell, you say. And then you remember. Of course. Arelnbuhl .loner, "The English Waltz King." whose song " Dreaieinz " hits sold more lhan a nnllieti and a quarter copies across Ihe music- shop counters, and thousands of records besides. Archibald Joyce. You've heard his songs dozens of times : " Acushla." " One Night of Love." "A Night in Vienna" . . . and literally hundreds more. The name is 'a bridge between this boogie-woogie age and the chaperoned world of glittering chandeliers and candlelight wahzes. - The musician's life when Joyce started out was probably harder than it l.. now. He was the son of a band-sergeant band-sergeant of the Grenadiers, and he learned his piano the hard wav wiih a rap over the knuckles when he placed a dull' note. He took a job as a 35-.shill:ngs-a-week ntanist at the old Oxford Minic Hall. (" The reM of the chaps only got thirty bob. Five bob a week extra in thoje days for the pianist. "i 3 fore icorlz THE show was over one evening, and a man came lo see him. lie reoresent ed an alt-night, alt-night, supper club, the Perev C'iui). ;n IVrcy-.s'.reet. and the.r regu'.ar ptant.-i had alien .-.irk. Could Mr. Jo. ee help otll ? Mr. Jo.cc could and did. His salary : il." a week plus tips, which sometimes amounted to several pounds a night, i At the same time he started to record songs for a gramophone gramo-phone company. Thus, as a young man. he worked at me recording studios in the morning, rehearsed in the afternoon, played at the Oxford every evening, and played at the Percv Club from midnight until live the next morning. Around this time he started his own band and found he could compose songs as easily as he could play tiie work of others. Another melody VT 80 Mr. Jore is white - haired bu t voiinsr in hi'iirt : lull if' lUieLliiic nl ciiiis iliiii hi'ui.e dim ii winii he wns line iui tin ij : i Li ;i n n 1 1 1 ii f . nl income t;tx ;il !M. in i lie ! i innd ilhll hcri- ;il I Id a Din' . ! nil ol lie mid liiii. ! A .r.ind old in.ih. Fi'r his r.iiir i"li Dtr'iid.iv souiL-onr siiit iiiin a nov-i ctirti: one tliiti pl:is Ihe mi'!od' of " I l.i ppv Ii'.n hdiiy io Vuu." I M li," he pla v the 1 line to hin- sell on iiianv more b;:ihd;r.' im Mil : n::s vf i!i:i: '.s e. w is;i ol the millions wiio have loved ' to dance W h.s music. |