Our News Items
Lots of Happy Christmas viewers - Tuesday, January 05, 2010
We're pleased to announce that happychristmassong.com welcomed over 125,000 visitors in the month of December, 2009, up an amazing 10,000% from the year before! The site recorded over 1.5 million hits in the same period.
Grassroots Grammy nomination - Thursday, July 09, 2009
Dan's song "Whenever I'm Alone With You" (co-written with Larry Byrom) has bee nominated as Best Jazz Vocal song in the biggest song competition in the world - Just Plain Folks, a joint venture with cdbaby.com.
Over 560,000 songs were submitted in 70 categories from around the world. Dan's song is one of 20 in it's category. The song is included on Dan's CD "True Blue" which was produced by Joe Pisapia (Guster). The awards show will be in Nashville in August. Here's a link www.jpfolks.com/index.
Jonell Mosser - The Light in Your Eyes -
One of Nashville's greatest singers, Jonell Mosser, has included Dan's song "The Light In Your Eyes" on her new CD, "Trust Yourself." Released on the Better Angels label, Jonell covers other great writers like Bob Dylan and Harlan Howard, besides including her own compositions. Check it out here.
Candi Staton - The Light in Your Eyes - Saturday, April 11, 2009
Following the success of her recording of Dan's song "When Will I?" (see below), Candi Staton recorded Dan's song "The Light In Your Eyes" for her latest album on Honest Jons/EMI, "Who's Hurting Now?" The album was released in February, 2009, across Europe and is slated to be released in the Canada in May, 2009!
Bluebird Gig - Thursday, October 16, 2008
On Thursday, Nov. 20, Dan will perform a 6 p.m. Writer's In The Round show at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe.
The Family That Preys - Monday, August 18, 2008
Dan's song, When Will I, as recorded by Candi Staton, will be featured in the new Tyler Perry file, The Family That Preys. The film is set for a nationwide release September 12, 2008, and stars Alfre Woodard and Kathy Bates.
Click Here for the movie's website.
"To Life" Sets Record for Eddy Arnold - Wednesday, May 28, 2008
The great Eddy Arnold recorded Dan's song "To Life" twice toward the end of his career. In 2000, he recorded the song for Curb Records. Then, 2005, he recorded "To Life" again for his last project, an RCA album titled "After All These Years" which was produced by Jack Clement and Jim Malloy, legends in their own right.
RCA had planned to release "To Life" on Eddy's 90th birthday which was May 15, 2008. Unfortunately, Mr. Arnold died a week before the release. RCA went ahead with the release and promoted it as a tribute to Arnold's remarkable career.
For the week of May 23rd, "To Life" entered the Billboard country single charts at #49, making Eddy Arnold the only country artist to have charted singles in seven decades.
Click here for the discography page. "To Life" is mid-way down.
"Dear World" Project - Monday, May 07, 2007
Dan's composition and recording "I Am the River" is featured on a new 2 CD collection titled "Dear World - Words and Music for Peace and the Environment." Compiled by Thurston Moore and Tony Gerber, the set also includes recordings by Gladys Knight, John Denver, Olivia Newton John, Melanie, Billy Edd Wheeler, the Kingston Trio and other fine performers.
Interspersed with the songs are spoken word passages written by luminaries such as Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, James Madsion and Albert Schweitzer, whose philosophy of "reverence for life" inspired the project.
For more information,please visit http://tennesseeplayers.org/.
