I Wanna Hold Your Songs features two #1 songs from some of today’s biggest male country stars. “Getting You Home” was Chris Young’s first #1 single and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Male Country Performance. The song came off his #1 album, The Man I Want To Be. “She Wouldn’t Be Gone” was a #1 single for Blake Shelton for two straight weeks. The song reappeared on Blake’s greatest hits album Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton.
Fun Attic opened its doors in 1990 as a publishing house that developed into a full-service administration company. Their songs have been recorded by a variety of musical acts including DC Talk, Jaci Valesquez, and Avalon. The catalog features “Jesus Freak,” recorded by DC Talk in 1995.
Mac Gayden wrote the international classic “Everlasting Love” with Buzz Cason. The song was recorded by Robert Knight and released in 1968. “Everlasting Love” is one of BMI’s top Award winning songs of all time. more
I Wanna Hold Your Songs features two #1 songs from some of today’s biggest male country stars. “Getting You Home” was Chris Young’s first #1 single and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Male Country Performance. The song came off his #1 album, The Man I Want To Be. “She Wouldn’t Be Gone” was a #1 single for Blake Shelton for two straight weeks. The song reappeared on Blake’s greatest hits album Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton.
Fun Attic opened its doors in 1990 as a publishing house that developed into a full-service administration company. Their songs have been recorded by a variety of musical acts including DC Talk, Jaci Valesquez, and Avalon. The catalog features “Jesus Freak,” recorded by DC Talk in 1995.
Dove Award winner, Darlene Zschech is one of the world’s most renowned composers of Contemporary Praise and Worship Music. One of the core founders of the Hillsong worship movement in the early 90’s, the Australian singer/songwriter, has written some of the most enduring worship songs of our time, including “Shout To The Loud,” “Worthy Is The Lamb,” “At The Cross,” and “All Things Are Possible.” Sung by 25-30 million churchgoers each week, “Shout To The Lord” is listed on the top CCLI charts across the world. Darlene’s songs are presently sung in over 250,000 churches.
We are pleased to announce that Hearts Bluff Music has facilitated the purchase of the Darlene Zschech catalog on behalf of Wondrous Worship.
Mac Gayden wrote the international classic “Everlasting Love” with Buzz Cason. The song was recorded by Robert Knight and released in 1968. “Everlasting Love” is one of BMI’s top Award winning songs of all time. more
Bill Luther’s catalog contains multiple cuts by mainstay Country artists such as Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, Joe Nichols, and Gary Allen. He’s co-written many amazing songs with the renowned songwriter, Aimee Mayo. He’s written the #1 hit “My Best Friend” by Tim McGraw, #2 hits “Let It Go” (McGraw), and “Who You’d Be Today” (Chesney), and the duet “Let’s Make Love” by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.
We’re big fans of Buddy Brock. His catalog contains songs published by Acuff-Rose/Sony Music, where Brock was a staff-writer from 1990-2007. It has seen diverse cuts by Alan Jackson, Tracy Byrd, Kenny Chesney, Aaron Tippin, and George Strait.
Hugh Prestwood
Hugh Prestwood has been a Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame member since October 2006 (he was inducted along with Jimmy Buffet). Known as a critically acclaimed “writer’s writer,” Prestwood has been penning songs, sans co-writer, for over 25 years. Over the years, Hugh has released a solo record with RCA records, and written 5 #1 hits for various artists. In 1991, Hugh was named the #2 Country Songwriter of the Year by Billboard magazine. He is currently teaching writers workshops for NSAI members throughout the country.
Three of the top earning hits, “Sound of Goodbye,” “Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart,” and “Ghost In This House” were nominated for Grammy Awards. The Randy Travis #1 hit, “Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart” was honored as Song of the Year at the 1991 BMI Awards. The song “The Sound of Goodbye” was nominated for an Emmy after being featured in a Disney special, and was named Song of the Year by NSAI. “Ghost in this House” is considered a landmark song recorded by Alison Krauss.
David Kent
David Kent has written songs for some of the genre’s biggest artists including Blake Shelton, Tracy Lawrence, and Rodney Atkins. As music major from Ithaca College, Kent has worked in many different genres of music. He gained experience when he toured with Hall & Oats for five years, and recorded 3 albums with the band. He was then signed to a record deal with Epic records, where he released solo material. In 1990 Kent moved to Nashville to focus on songwriting.
Kent’s biggest hit, “Austin” was a career-making song for Blake Shelton, after staying at #1 on all three Country charts for five straight weeks. The song also earned at “Two Million Broadcast” award from BMI.
Wynn Varble
Renowned songwriter, Wynn Varble moved to Nashville in 1992 after playing his songs in the club circuit for nearly a decade. Two years later Varble was signed to a publishing deal with Starstruck Writer’s Group. Wynn penned his first #1 hit in 2003, “Have You Forgotten” recorded by Daryl Worely. He has since had songs recorded by legends like Garth Brooks, Lee Ann Womack, and Brad Paisley.
The #1 hit “Waitin’ On A Woman” is a multiple award winning song, and a classic for Brad Paisley. The song has an unusual history in that it was released on 2 Paisley albums. The marketing team felt the song had been overlooked on the 2005 album “Time Well Wasted”, and re-released it on the 2007 album“5th Gear”. Then it was released as a single and went to #1. Paisley refers to the song as one of the “most important” of his career. The song, along with “Have You Forgotten”, is a BMI Awarding winning song in Wynn’s catalog. His first #1 hit was “Have You Forgotten” and was nominated for a CMA song of the year.
Steve Dean
“Watching You” is a #1 Billboard Country hit co-written by Steve Dean, Brian Gene White, and Rodney Atkins. Atkins released this song on his 2006 #1 album “If You’re Going Through Hell.” The song was named 2007’s #1 song on Billboard’s year-end chart. BMI also awarded Dean with a Million-Air certificate, for more than one million performances of the song.