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Roy John has
performed with many artists over the years and has been writing songs
and playing the guitar since he
Roy, Jim and Jean parted ways when Roy decided to attend college, at his mom and dad's persistence, instead of pursuing a career in music. Roy's parents firmly believed in the importance of a good college education before a music career. Jim and Jean Prater signed a new artist by the name of Mel Street who had several hit songs in country music. While in college working on his Electrical Engineering degree Roy started another band called Roy John Fuller and the Show Rogues. They played college concerts, clubs and gigs all over Southwest Virginia for a couple years. Roy entered his first marriage and put his musical career on hold again joining the Navy to help pay for his first child's delivery costs. The Navy had excellent benefits for someone with none, so he put his musical career and college on hold again to provide for his new family. After his 6 year Navy tour of duty including combat action in Vietnam, he headed for Nashville to record his first record "Angel In Disguise" produced by Joe Deaton. The back side of the record was "Your Song". Roy John wrote both songs and they both received a lot of national airplay and a Top 10 Pick Hit by Billboard Magazine. More Country Song Writers Go To - Country Music Songwriters Even with the success of Roy John's first recording he was not able to establish himself as a full time songwriter and took a job as a John Hancock insurance salesman to support his family after his Navy tour. He eventually moved back to his home town of Grundy, Virginia and started a local electronics sales and repair business. He worked and managed the electronic business for several years and even made another trip to Nashville to record some more songs funded by some local doctors that saw promise in his music. He recorded four of his favorite self written songs including: "Do it", "Out Of Hand", "Shoe's On Another's Foot", and "The First Time". He received Top Single Pick Hits from Billboard, Record World and Cashbox on these new songs, but was unable to commercially release any of the songs. After several false starts, union mine strikes, historic floods and just bad economic times in general he was forced to close the doors on the electronic business and look for another career.
It was about this time that Roy met his soul mate, co-writer and life long friend Rita. They both attended and graduated college together and moved to Florida to start new careers including co-writing many new songs together. Roy and Rita have just completed demos on a collection of new demo songs. He continues to promote and pitch his songs to Artists and their managers in Nashville. More Country Song Writers Go To - Country Music Songwriters Roy John Fuller - November 2010
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Roy John
Fuller a BMI songwriter for over 40 years now has had several Top 10 Billboard
& Cashbox Pick Hits
starting with "Angel In Disguise"
(1975 Nashville Columbia Studio B), "Your
Song" (1975 Nashville
Columbia Studio B), "The Image of Me"
(1978 Nashville RCA Studios) "Giving
Up Getting Over You" (1979
Nashville Tandem Studios), "The
First Time" (1981 Nashville
Woodland Studios), "Do It"
(1981 Nashville Woodland Recording Studios), "The
Shoe's On Another's Foot"
(1981 Nashville Woodland Recording Studios). He has Pick Hits and write
up's in Nashville Entertainer, Songwriter Magazine
and other music industry publications. Roy has been a staff songwriter
for 
was five. He started playing and singing
Gospel music in local churches and eventually migrated to writing
Country and Rock songs. He formed a local band with some musician friend
while in his early teens and eventually landed a spot on the local WNRG
radio station hosted by Joe Deaton, a songwriter himself with hits like
Loretta's Lynn "Get Set For A Heartache", Earnest Tubb's "Mr. & Mrs.
Used To Be", Mel Streets "A Promise I Just Couldn't Keep" and
many more. Roy came to the attention of local businessman Jim Prater and
his wife Jean who eventually became Roy personal manager at 13 years
old. Jim Prater outfitted Roy's band and they
hit the road doing a variety of front shows and nightclubs for the next
few years. 
by Roy John Fuller