Joy
Encyclopedia
Joy may refer to:
  • Happiness
    Happiness
    Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources....

    , an emotion
  • Joy (given name), people with the given name or surname Joy


Music

Bands & performers
  • Joy (band)
    Joy (band)
    Joy is an 80s Europop band from Austria, best known for their biggest hits Touch By Touch and Valerie.-History:The band Joy was formed in Bad Aussee, an Austrian town of 7500 citizens. Freddy Jaklitsch , Manfred Temmel and Andy Schweitzer were school friends, but after the graduation all three...

  • Joy (South African Group)
    Joy (South African Group)
    Joy is a female vocal group from South Africa who had a No 1 hit in South Africa in 1980 with Paradise Road. It spent 9 weeks at the No 1 spot.-History:...



Albums
  • Joy (Fefe Dobson album)
    Joy (Fefe Dobson album)
    Joy is the second studio album to be released by Canadian singer-songwriter Fefe Dobson, and third studio album to be recorded. It was released on November 22, 2010 after taking almost four years to complete. It candidly follows Dobson's evolution as an artist as well as transition from the indie...

    ; also the title track from that album
  • Joy (Phish album)
    Joy (Phish album)
    Joy is the eleventh official studio album by the American rock band Phish, released on September 8, 2009, on the band's own label, JEMP Records...

    ; also the title track from that album
  • Joy (Paul King album)
    Joy (Paul King album)
    Joy is the only solo album by British singer Paul King, released in 1987, on CBS label, after King, the new wave band he was lead singer for, split up in 1986....

  • Joy (EP)
    Joy (EP)
    Joy is a three-song seven-inch EP by American hardcore punk band Minutemen. Recorded not long after the release of their first EP Paranoid Time, it was the first release that Minutemen had issued on their own New Alliance Records label in 1981...

    , by the Minutemen
  • Joy (The Skids album)
  • Joy (Stalin album)
    Joy (Stalin album)
    -Credits:*Musicians:**Michiro Endo - vocals**Shigeo Mihara - drums, electric devices**Naruhiko Yamamori - guitar**Yusuke Nishimura - bass*Guest Musicians:**Osamu Sakasai - guitar **Jun Ogura - Announcement *Producer:...

  • Joy, an album by Isaac Hayes
    Isaac Hayes
    Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...

  • Joy, an album by Yuki Isoya
    Yuki Isoya
    is a Japanese musician who performs under the name Yuki . She debuted in the music industry in 1991 as the lead vocalist for the rock band Judy and Mary, and as a solo artist in 2002...

  • Joy: A Christmas Collection
    Joy: A Christmas Collection
    Joy: A Christmas Collection is Avalon's fourth release, and their first Christmas album. In addition to standard Christmas songs, the album also includes covers of Celine Dion's "Don't Save It All for Christmas Day", Mariah Carey's "Jesus, Born on This Day", and David Meece's "We Are The...

    , by the group Avalon


Songs
  • "Joy" (song)
    Joy (song)
    "Joy" is a 1992 song recorded by French singer-songwriter François Feldman. It was the third single from his third album Magic Boul'vard, and was released in the first days of February 1992...

    , by François Feldman
  • "Joy" (7669 song)
    Joy (7669 song)
    Joy is a dance/R&B single by 7669. It was the second single released from her debut album 7669. The single charted on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Singles chart on May 14, 1994. -Chart positions:...

    , song by R&B group 7669
  • "Joy", a song by Against Me! on the album Searching for a Former Clarity
    Searching for a Former Clarity
    Searching for a Former Clarity is the third album by the Gainesville, Florida punk rock band Against Me!, produced by J. Robbins and released on September 6, 2005 by Fat Wreck Chords. Supported by singles and music videos for the songs "Don't Lose Touch" and "From Her Lips to God's Ears ", it was...

  • "Joy", a song by Whitney Houston from The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album
  • "Joy", a song by Yuki Isoya
    Yuki Isoya
    is a Japanese musician who performs under the name Yuki . She debuted in the music industry in 1991 as the lead vocalist for the rock band Judy and Mary, and as a solo artist in 2002...

  • "Joy", a song by mclusky
    Mclusky
    Mclusky , originally known as Best, were a three-piece post-hardcore group formed in Cardiff, Wales. The group consisted of Englishman Andy "Falco" Falkous from Newcastle Upon Tyne, Jonathan Chapple and Jack Egglestone , who replaced previous drummer Matthew Harding in late...

  • "Joy", a song by Harry Nilsson
    Harry Nilsson
    Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. On all but his earliest recordings he is credited as Nilsson...

     on the album Son of Schmilsson
    Son of Schmilsson
    Son of Schmilsson is the eighth album by Harry Nilsson. Nilsson was being pressured to produce a follow-up album similar to his 1971 breakthrough, Nilsson Schmilsson, but, instead, he cut a more eccentric album....

    released in 1972
  • "Joy", a song by Mick Jagger on the album Goddess in the Doorway
    Goddess in the Doorway
    Goddess in the Doorway is the fourth solo album by Mick Jagger, released in 2001. The most recent offering from Jagger as a solo artist, it marked his first release with Virgin Records, whom he has been contracted with as a member of The Rolling Stones since 1991.Following 1993's Wandering Spirit...

  • "Joy", a 2000 single by Newsboys
    Newsboys
    Newsboys are a Christian pop rock band founded in 1985 in Mooloolaba, Australia. They have released 15 studio albums, six of which have been certified gold...

  • "Joy", a 1988 song by Teddy Pendergrass
    Teddy Pendergrass
    Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass was an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade...

  • "Joy", a 1995 single by Toni Pearen from the album Intimate
    Intimate (Toni Pearen album)
    Intimate is the debut album by Australian actress and singer Toni Pearen. Recorded throughout 1992 to 1993 and released in 1994, the album spawned two top ten singles and a third top forty single...

  • "Joy", a song by Soul II Soul
    Soul II Soul
    Soul II Soul are a British group that was created in London in 1988. They are best known for their 1989 UK chart-topper and U.S. Top 5 hit, "Back to Life ".-Career:...

     on the album Just Right Vol. III
  • "Joy", a song by VNV Nation on the album Praise the Fallen
    Praise the Fallen
    -Notes:* “PTF2012” can be seen as a reference to the Mayan Calendar doomsday, 21 December 2012. Although in the booklet for Reformation 1 Ronan Harris states that the date was chosen at random.* “Schweigeminute” is a one-minute silence...

  • "Joy", a song by Lucinda Williams on the album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
    Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
    Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is the 1998 album by singer-songwriter and guitarist Lucinda Williams, her fifth professional release. Issued by Mercury/Polygram Records, it was recorded in Nashville and Canoga Park, California...

  • "Joy" (Psychic TV single)
  • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is the most common English title of the 10th movement of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. A transcription by the English pianist Myra Hess was published in 1926 for piano solo and in 1934 for piano duet...

     is the title of the 10th movement of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
    • "Joy", an arrangement of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" performed by Apollo 100
      Apollo 100
      Apollo 100 was a short-lived British instrumental studio-based group that had a hit with the Johann Sebastian Bach-inspired single "Joy" in 1972....

  • Ode to Joy
    Ode to Joy
    "Ode to Joy" is an ode written in 1785 by the German poet, playwright and historian Friedrich Schiller, enthusiastically celebrating the brotherhood and unity of all mankind...

    , an ode written by Friedrich Schiller
    Friedrich Schiller
    Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

     and set to music in the final movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
    Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)
    The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best known works of the Western classical repertoire, and has been adapted for use as the European Anthem...



Record label
  • Joy Records
    Joy Records
    Joy Records was a New York record label and was owned by Hal and Mariam Weiss. It began in 1958 and finished 1965 after releasing 80 or so singles...



See also
  • "Joy to the World
    Joy to the World
    "Joy to the World" is a Christian Christmas carol.The words are by English hymn writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98 in the Bible. The song was first published in 1719 in Watts' collection; The Psalms of David: Imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and...

    " is a popular Christmas carol

Literature

  • Joy (novel)
    Joy (novel)
    Joy is a novel by Marsha Hunt about the relationship between two African American women which is based on secrets, lies, and delusion. Mainly set in a posh New York apartment in the course of one day in the spring of 1987, the novel contains frequent flashbacks that describe life in a black...

    , a 1990 novel by Marsha Hunt
  • Joy (novels)
    Joy (novels)
    Joy is a series of semi-autobiographical erotic novels by Joy Laurey, who shares the name of the main character in the books. The character is a supermodel whose father is American and mother is French....

    , a series of novels by Joy Laurey
  • Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (novel)
    Surprised by Joy
    Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life is a partial autobiography published by C. S. Lewis in 1955. Specifically the book describes the author's conversion to Christianity which had taken place 24 years earlier.-Overview :...

    , a novel / partial autobiography by C.S. Lewis

Television

  • "Joy" (House)
    Joy (House)
    "Joy" is the sixth episode of the fifth season of House and the ninety-second episode overall. It aired on October 28, 2008.-Plot:The episode opens with a single father, Jerry, repeatedly pouring himself a mug of coffee and then dumping it in the sink. The clock shows just before 8:30am. He then...

    , a television episode
  • Joy Turner, fictional character on the US sitcom My Name is Earl
  • Nurse Joy, several characters in the Pokémon series

Places

  • Joy, Illinois
    Joy, Illinois
    Joy is a village in Mercer County, Illinois, United States. The population was 373 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Joy is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all of it land....

    , United States
  • Joy Range
    Joy Range
    The Joy Range is one of the northern mountain ranges in the world and of the Arctic Cordillera along with the nearby Princess Margaret Range, located on southeastern Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada. It is named after Alfred Herbert Joy, which is best known for a remarkable patrol by dogsled...

    , Nunavut, Canada
  • Mount Joy
    Mount Joy
    Mount Joy can refer to:* Mount Joy Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania* Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania** Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, a borough of Lancaster County*** Mount Joy , a station in this borough...

    , the name of several places

Other uses

  • Joy (dishwashing liquid)
  • Joy (programming language)
  • Joy 94.9, a radio station, the name of more than one United States Navy ship, a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1959 to 1982
  • Joy Compressor
    Joy Compressor
    Joy Compressors were first introduced in 1955 when the Joy Manufacturing Company hired four engineers and set them up in an office over a hardware store in Western New York. Within a short period of time, a farmer's field in Cheektowaga, New York was purchased for a test site...

  • Joy (perfume)
    Joy (perfume)
    Joy is a perfume created for Parisian couturier Jean Patou by perfumer Henri Alméras in 1929. It is considered to be one of the greatest fragrances created and is a landmark example of the floral genre in perfumery....

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