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Larry Groce (born April 22, 1948) is a family-oriented, one-hit wonder country music singer/songwriter and radio host. He had a Billboard Hot 100|U.S. Top Ten hit with "Junk Food Junkie" in 1976. Since 1986, Groce has hosted the Public Radio International program, Mountain Stage.
Groce was born in Dallas, Texas|Dallas, Texas, on April 22, 1948. He attended W.H. Adamson High School with future musicians Michael Martin Murphey, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and B. W. Stevenson. After school, Groce moved around the States — St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis, New York, Los Angeles — singing folk music and rhyming tales. Groce recorded four LPs on small labels like Peaceable and Daybreak in the '70s, with his band--Berke McKelvey (bass guitar|bass), and the Currence brothers, Jimmie (banjo, fiddle) and Loren (guitar, fiddle, mandolin); Disney|Walt Disney's Buena Vista Music Group|Vista label Activity Records issued his "Winnie the Pooh For President" as a single. He also recorded the "Disney Children's Favourites" albums on Disneyland Records, featuring many well-loved children's songs, as well as several other Disney recordings during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the two "Disney Christmas Favourites" LPs.
"Junk Food Junkie"
Early in the 1970s, Groce went to work for the National Endowment for the Arts program wh... read all