Joey Travolta

Joseph "Joey" Travolta (born October 14, 1950) is an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter. His younger brother is actor John Travolta.

Life and career

Travolta, one of six children, was born and raised in Englewood, New Jersey, an inner-ring suburb of New York City. His father, Salvatore Travolta, was a semi-professional football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company. His mother, Helen Cecilia (née Burke; 1912–1978), who was 38 when Travolta was born, was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and English teacher. His father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American.

He attended Shepherd University in West Virginia while rooming with future West Virginia historian and special education vanguard, Dave Lind. Travolta also graduated from Paterson State College, now William Paterson University, with a degree in special education.

Joey Travolta (album)

Joey Travolta is the 1978 self-titled debut album of Joey Travolta. The album produced two singles; the first "I Don't Wanna Go", which Travolta sang on Dick Clark's American Bandstand and made it into the Billboard 150. and the second "If This Is Love" which was simultaneously recorded by Tom Jones on What a Night, and a decade later a more successful single for Melissa Manchester.

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