Joy
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Joy may refer to:
- Happiness Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or 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
- Albums
- Joy (Fefe Dobson album); also the title track from that album
- Joy (Phish album) Joy is the title of Phish's fourteenth studio album, released for sale on September 8, 2009. The production of this studio album not only saw the band back together after it was dissolved for four years but also re-united the band with producer Steve Lillywhite, who produced their 1996 release, Billy Breathes. Noting that the band just marked; also the title track from that album
- Joy (Paul King album)
- Joy (EP) Joy is a three-song seven-inch EP by American hardcore punk band the Minutemen. Recorded not long after the release of their first EP Paranoid Time, it was the first release that the Minutemen had issued on their own New Alliance Records label in 1981. Their prolific nature would continue when their first full-length album The Punch Line hit, by the Minutemen
- Joy (The Skids album) Joy is the final album by the Scottish band Skids. It was the fourth studio record and their first after the departure of signature guitarist Stuart Adamson, who then founded Big Country. As such, it represented a change of direction from rock to folk music, amplifying the traditional Scottish element already hinted at in previous releases
- Joy (Stalin album) Joy is the first album by Japanese punk group Stalin released in 1989 February 25
- Joy, an album by Isaac Hayes Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer, and occasionally an actor. Hayes was one of the creative geniuses 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 mid-1960s. Hayes, Porter, Bill Withers, the
- Joy, an album by Yuki Isoya Yuki Isoya (better known simply as YUKI) (born on February 17, 1972) is one of Japan's more notable female vocalists. Best known as the front-woman and lead vocals of the former rock band Judy and Mary, she has also been part of the largely unknown NiNa (with Kate Pierson of The B-52's) and the all girl rock band Mean Machine (alongside Chara)
- 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 Reason", by the group Avalon
- Songs
- "Joy" (song), by François Feldman
- "Joy", a song by Against Me! on the album 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 their first album to chart on
- "Joy", a song by Whitney Houston from The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album
- "Joy", a song by Yuki Isoya Yuki Isoya (better known simply as YUKI) (born on February 17, 1972) is one of Japan's more notable female vocalists. Best known as the front-woman and lead vocals of the former rock band Judy and Mary, she has also been part of the largely unknown NiNa (with Kate Pierson of The B-52's) and the all girl rock band Mean Machine (alongside Chara)
- "Joy", a song by mclusky
- "Joy", a song by Mick Jagger on the album 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
- "Joy", a 2000 single by Newsboys Newsboys are a Grammy Award-nominated Christian pop rock band. Since the band's founding in Australia in 1985, Newsboys have released fourteen studio albums and have been one of the most popular Christian music artists of the past two decades
- "Joy", a 1988 song by 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. In 1982, he was severely injured in an auto accident in Philadelphia, resulting in his being
- "Joy", a 1995 single by Toni Pearen from the album Intimate
- "Joy", a song by Soul II Soul Soul II Soul were a British act that emerged from London at the end of the 1980s . The group initially attracted attention as a sound system, playing records at house and street parties . Founded by Jazzie B and featuring a changing roster of other musicians - notably Nellee Hooper, Simon Law, Phillip 'Daddae' Harvey and Caron Wheeler - Soul II on the album Just Right Vol. III
- "Joy", a song by VNV Nation on the album Praise the Fallen
- "Joy", a song by Lucinda Williams on the album 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
- "Joy" (Psychic TV single)
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" is the 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. The British organist Peter Hurford made his organ 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 was a short-lived British instrumental studio based group that had a hit with the Johann Sebastian Bach-inspired single "Joy" in 1972
- Record label
- See also
Literature
- Joy (novel), a 1990 novel by Marsha Hunt
- Joy (novels), a series of novels by Joy Laurey
- Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (novel) 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, a novel / partial autobiography by C.S. Lewis
Television
- "Joy" (House) 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 speaks to his daughter, Samantha, who leaves the house for school. Overall, the father and daughter's interactions are listless and unemotional, and almost robotic - apparently both, a television episode
- Joy Turner My Name Is Earl is an American comedy created by Greg Garcia that was originally broadcast on the NBC television network from September 20, 2005 to May 14, 2009 in the United States. It was produced by 20th Century Fox Television, fictional character on the US sitcom My Name is Earl
- Nurse Joy The following is a list of main and recurring characters that have appeared within the Pokémon anime series. Since the show's inception, only the central protagonist, Ash Ketchum, his main Pokémon, Pikachu, and his principal antagonists - Jessie, James, and Meowth - have regularly appeared in every season. In 2006, with the beginning of the, several characters in the Pokémon series
Places
- Joy, Illinois, United States
- 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 2,900 km patrol by dogsled across the heart of the Queen Elizabeth, Nunavut, Canada
- Mount Joy, the name of several places
Other uses
- Joy (dishwashing liquid) Joy dishwashing liquid is a major brand of dish-cleaning detergent product made by U.S.-based personal and cleaning products manufacturer and marketer Procter & Gamble
- Joy (programming language) The Joy programming language is a purely functional programming language that was produced by Manfred von Thun of La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Joy is based on composition of functions rather than lambda calculus. It has turned out to have many similarities to Forth, due less to design than to a sort of parallel evolution and
- Joy 94.9, a radio station
- USS Turner Joy (DD-951) USS Turner Joy was a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Charles Turner Joy USN (1895–1956), a warship
- Joy Compressor
- 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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Soccer-World-Ghana crush American dreams, deliver African joy - Reuters Africa
Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:41:26 GMT+00:00
Reuters Africa rustenburg june 26 (Reuters) - Ghana crushed American dreams and delivered African joy on Saturday when they beat the United States 2-1 ... Putting Tears Aside: Celebrating Ghana's Victory The Nation. (blog) Gyan scores in extra time to give Ghana 2-1 win over US and spot in quarters The Canadian Press Blame Bill Clinton? How The Sudden Attention May Have Made Team USA Lose Focus Mediaite.com ESPN - Bleacher Report - Yahoo! Sports
Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:41:26 GMT+00:00
Reuters Africa rustenburg june 26 (Reuters) - Ghana crushed American dreams and delivered African joy on Saturday when they beat the United States 2-1 ... Putting Tears Aside: Celebrating Ghana's Victory The Nation. (blog) Gyan scores in extra time to give Ghana 2-1 win over US and spot in quarters The Canadian Press Blame Bill Clinton? How The Sudden Attention May Have Made Team USA Lose Focus Mediaite.com ESPN - Bleacher Report - Yahoo! Sports
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