The
Fox Family Channel,
Trinity Broadcasting and the
Inspirational Network all broadcast a show called
Life in the World, featuring a song by
Dan Caravetta from Easton, Pennsylvania.
TAXI member
Denny Earnest of Livingston, Montana had his song Aloha From Hawaii showcased on the
FOX TV networks hot night-time series
North Shore, based in a hotel in Hawaii. In addition, the publisher that placed the song also asked him to create an entire Hawaiian CD.
Belton, Missouris Jeff Scheetz signed signed five different songs with three different music libraries.
Justin Wilde of Christmas and Holiday Music, one of the leading holiday song music publishers, has added the following three TAXI members songs to his catalog: Bloody Bones by Harmon Huff, Hollerin on Halloween by Christian Codish, and The New Halloween Monster by Steve Shapiro.
Distance was no barrier to
Uri Kabiri of Tel Aviv, Israel, who landed a deal for his song Enter Into My World with the company
DANCE! 90210. They will include his composition into an instructional dance video they are producing.
TAXI member Jon Maddux from Encinitas, California just signed a six song film & TV placement deal with an independent publishing company.
When the
WB Network released seasons three and four of their long-running hit
Felicity, the DVDs included several songs by
Shannon Penn If You Didnt Try, Something Good and The Better Man. Through a west coast music publisher, Shannon also scored exposure at major theater chain
Regal Cinemas, which featured Penns song So This Is Hollywood in the music section (before the previews). Not bad, considering the
Regal Entertainment Group is the largest motion picture exhibitor in the world, including more than 6,000 theaters!
For use in their corporate videos, corporate design giant
Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. has licensed two songs, Equator and Barbers Scissors, by
Daniel Eyde of Redwood City, California.
Jimm McIvers song Sunny Day was placed in the
Oxygen Networks groundbreaking show
Good Girls Dont . . . through a major film & TV production company. The program features hot newcomers Bree Turner (The Wedding Planner, Sorority Boyd, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo) and Kevin Christy (Dude, Wheres My Car?, CSI, Malcolm in the Middle).
Jesper Meljvang from Denmark composed a song that will be added to a CD called
Elements, which is being released on
Warner Bros. in Germany and potentially worldwide.
MTVs hit reality series
Road Rules featured a cut by TAXI member
Steve Krentzman. The placement came via a TAXI listing run by an east coast music publisher.
TAXI member
Edwin Stone, of Rochester Hills, Michigan, scored a three song deal with
The Weather Channel. Edwin received $1500.00 each for each of the songs. The network used them for a month.
Ipswitch, Massachussets TAXI Member
Eric Colville netted $1,600 for the use of his song on
ABCs long-running daytime drama
All My Children.
One Life to Live, the landmark
ABC soap opera featured two songs by Scottsdale, Arizona TAXI member
Rich Banks.
NBCs long-time hit series
Law and Order recently picked up a song by TAXI Member
Joe Quaranto, via a New York-based production music library.
TAXI member Ryan Hovind landed a publishing deal with a high-level film and TV music placement company with consistent placements on major networks.
Road Rules,
MTVs seminal reality show, used a song by TAXI Member
Denny Earnest in an eposide to air this August.
Scott Shpak and
Ken Faragalli, from St. Catherines in Ontaria, Canada, had their song What Matters to Elizabeth featured in
Showtimes groundbreaking series
Queer as Folk.
And from the other side of the world, Micheal Wheeler of Victoria, Australia had 9 songs signed to an LA-based music publisher with tons of film and TV placements.
Thats Why You Love Me, a song by Louisville, Kentuckys
Dan Bowman, was used in the television show
Angel on the
WB Network.
Dawn De Mone, a TAXI Member from Los Angeles, California recently had her song Bikini placed in the upcoming reality film
Malibu Spring Break. Dawn also had a song used on the
GKA show on the
Fuel Network, the 24/7 action sports culture TV station.
TAXI Members
Barry Schleifer and
Kent Forward have both placements in the
USA Networks show
The Last Ride, starring Dennis Hopper, Will Patton (Mothman Prophecies, Remember the Titans, Gone in Sixty Seconds), Fred Ward (10.5, Sweet Home Alabama, Tremors), Nadine Velazquez and others.
Austin, TX-based member Elizabeth Rice tells us: Im tardy in writing to let you know that because of YOU I signed a song to a music library at the end of 2003! You forwarded it eons before (over a year?) and they called in the Fall to sign it. :)
Thanks so much for all you do for us out here in writers-land! See yall at the Road Rally in November!
Denny Earnest from Livingston, MT writes: Just signed off 10 tunes to a New York-based publisher from a listing more than 4 months ago, and 12 tunes from a Dispatch listing two weeks ago to another publisher. Thanks, folks!
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