Larry Groce
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Larry Groce (born April 22, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and radio host.
Groce has been the host and artistic director of Mountain Stage, a two-hour live music radio show produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed by NPR since 1983.
He first entered the national spotlight in 1976 when his novelty song "Junk Food Junkie" became a Top Ten hit.
Groce's name was soon recognized by children and parents alike as a result of his Platinum recordings of classic children's songs for Walt Disney Entertainment Children's Favorites 4-volume series: Volume 1 (1979), Volume 3 (1986), and Volume 4 (1990).
Early life
Groce was born in Dallas, Texas, to H.T. Bobbie Groce and John Leopoll. Gary (born July 7, 1951) and his younger sister, Janna (born April 8, 1961). Groce became interested in music when she was in elementary school. The family lived in Dallas' Oak Cliff neighborhood, and he attended Adamson High School there. Michael Martin Murphey, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and B. W. Stevenson were among the classmates.
Personal life
Larry Groce resides in Charleston, West Virginia, having moved there in 1972. Sandra Groce (née Armstrong), a classically-trained violist, is married to him. Virginia (also a violent) and Bonnie are their two children.
Career
Peace and Joy and Power for The First Church of Christ, Scientist, of which he is a member, was released in 1969 while a student at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, Illinois. He moved to New York in 1970 and became a regular performer at "Focus," an Upper West Side organic food restaurant and coffeehouse co-owned by future Hollywood producer and manager Larry Brezner. (Brezner's wife, singer Melissa Manchester, was also a regular) Groce signed a recording deal with Daybreak Records, RCA Records' subsidiary. The Wheat Lies Low's Low's first album of original songs was released in 1970. He was a National Endowment for the Performing Arts-funded "residence" in twenty US states from 1972 to 1985. In 1972, one of those residencies took him to West Virginia, where he now lives.
"Junk Food Junkie," a Billboard top-ten hit, has appeared on The Tonight Show, The Merv Griffin Show, American Bandstand, The Rich Little Show, Dr. Demento, and A Prairie Home Companion.
Groce appeared on nine Disney albums between 1979 and 1990, one of which was certified gold and five-certified platinum. In 1976, Winnie-the-Pooh for President, his first Disney film, was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category "Best Recording for Children," and Disney's Children's Favorites Volumes I–IV are still in print and continue to sell.
Groce co-founded Mountain Stage, a two-hour live music program produced by West Virginia Public Radio that has been released nationally and internationally by NPR and Voice of America's satellite radio broadcasting to over 200 stations in 1983. He is its host, producer, and artistic director. His musical tastes have been instrumental in establishing the show's sound. Lyle Lovett, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sheryl Crow, Barenaked Ladies, Alison Krauss, Ani DiFranco, Phish, Counting Crows, Ben Harper, Jenny Davis, David Gray, and The Avett Brothers were the first nationally broadcast radio or television show to feature live performances by Lyle Lovett, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Barenches, Barensky Ladies, Barenaked Ladies, Emma McLachlan, Ben Harper, Ben Harper, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Doc Watson, Pops Staples and Brownie McGhee, as well as current stars R.E.M., Martina McBride, and Norah Jones have appeared on the program. Groce died in 2021 after being on the stage for the first time; his replacement, Kathy Mattea, has been in charge of the Mountain Stage.
Groce's first album in 27 years Live Forever with his wife, violist Sandra Groce, was released in 2016. It contains four originals and eight covers as well as the complete version of the Mountain Stage theme song "Simple Song."
In 1990, he appeared in Paradise Park, a low-budget feature film shot in West Virginia about life in a Mountain State trailer park. (It was later re-released as Heroes of the Heart) Groce co-wrote the title song with Webb Wilder, who also appeared in the film with country musicians Porter Wagoner and Johnny Paycheck. Groce co-wrote a musical theater version.
Groce owned The Morgantown School of Ballet from 1980 to 1985. Graffiti, West Virginia's sole statewide arts and entertainment alternative tabloid, was owned by the author from 1990 to 2004. In 2005, he became Executive Director of FestivALL Charleston, a ten-day festival of music, dance, theater, and visual arts in West Virginia's capital city Charleston, Charleston.