{{short description|Canadian country singer}} '''Joyce Seamone''' is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] country singer.<ref name=saylors>Kathleen Saylors, [https://www.woodstocksentinelreview.com/entertainment/local-arts/country-star-joyce-seamone-returns-to-woodstock "Country star Joyce Seamone returns to Woodstock"]. ''[[Woodstock Sentinel-Review]]'', August 29, 2019.</ref> She is most noted for her single "Testing 1-2-3", which was a number one hit on Canada's [[country music]] charts in 1972.<ref>Steve Kannon, [https://observerxtra.com/2019/08/29/it-was-testing-1-2-3-to-start-but-now-shes-got-the-sound-down-pat/ "It was Testing 1-2-3 to start, but now she's got the sound down pat"]. ''Elmira Observer'', August 29, 2019.</ref>
Originally from [[Maplewood, Nova Scotia|Maplewood]], [[Nova Scotia]], Seamone moved to [[Woodstock, Ontario|Woodstock]], [[Ontario]] in the 1960s for work.<ref name=saylors/> While living in Woodstock she signed to Marathon Records, and released the single "Testing 1-2-3" in 1972. The single, the title track from her debut album, peaked at #1 in the ''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'' country charts the week of August 19, 1972,<ref>[https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.7634&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.7634.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.7634 "Country Playlist"]. ''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'', August 19, 1972.</ref> and Seamone was the only Canadian female country singer to score a #1 hit with her debut single through the entire 1970s.<ref name=saylors/> However, the album did not spawn any further chart hits. She released her second album, ''Merry Christmas from Joyce Seamone'', later the same year.
Her third album, 1973's ''Stand By for a Special Announcement'', performed poorly on the charts, with its title track peaking at #69 in ''RPM'' the week of September 15, 1973.<ref>[http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4876&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4876.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4876 "Country Playlist"]. ''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'', September 15, 1973.</ref> She was then dropped from Marathon Records and signed to [[Boot Records]], which released her fourth album ''I Can See It in His Eyes'' in 1975. That album also did not give Seamone any notable hit singles; she then made her second and final appearance in the country top 40 in 1978 with the non-album single "There's More Love Where That Came From" reaching #14 in 1978.
She moved back to Nova Scotia in the 1980s, where she started her own independent label and released a new album, ''The Other Side of Me'', independently in 1994.<ref name=saylors/> She was also an organizer of the Fox Mountain Music Festival, served on the board of directors for the Nova Scotia [[Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum|Country Music Hall of Fame]], and continued to perform regional shows at music festivals in [[the Maritimes]].<ref name=saylors/> In 2019, she returned to Woodstock to perform a show for the first time since moving back to Nova Scotia.<ref name=saylors/>
==Discography== *''Testing 1-2-3'' (1972) *''Merry Christmas from Joyce Seamone'' (1972) *''Stand By for a Special Announcement'' (1973) *''I Can See It in His Eyes'' (1975) *''The Other Side of Me'' (1994)
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