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SONG DIARY > Bring Him Home Santa
12.21.07
Lots of listens, views and comments
It's hard not to get choked up hearing all these stories about people being moved by the song and sharing their feelings and thoughts with us. Thank you so much for letting us know how this song has effected you. Here are a few that I'd like to shar
More 12.18.07
Song featured on Nashville's Channel 2 News!
...Last night on the 6 o'clock news they ran it. Most of us were still working and gathered around the TV at a local coffee shop and watched. It was really neat. Our families and friends really loved it. Hopefully it'll help share the song with lots
More 12.15.07
Bring Him Home Santa website goes down! Too many hits!
We've had about over 40,000 new visitors in the last week or so and I guess we exceeded my allotted amount of 'data transfer' space...
More 12.14.07
User creates a video for the song!
... they were all talking about a video that someone had created and put on Youtube and how much it had impacted them!
More 12.13.07
Song hits radio everywhere!
We’re hearing about new stations daily/hourly that are spinning the song. We’re getting requests in daily from stations that don’t have and want one so they can play it...
More 12.07.07
Hearing it on the radio for the first time
It’s a funny thing hearing your song on the radio. Knowing that other people are hearing it also. Wondering if it’s touching them or moving personally at that very moment...
More 12.04.07
KMPS in Seattle, WA plays “Bring Him Home Santa”
...When I answered the call I heard a voice say “Hi Rory, it’s Ichabod... hold on!”. Then I hear our Christmas song being played on the air!
More 11.30.07
Capitol Records to help with song! 50 % of profits go to St. Jude’s Childrens Hospital
At 10 O’clock this morning, Jeff, Kerry and I met with Mike Dungan, head of Capitol Records Nashville, and his GM Tom Becci to work out the deal. I hadn’t met Tom before, but he’s a really nice guy also.
More 11.19.07
Call back from Capitol
I met this morning with Grassroots, a small-market radio promotion team. Teresa and Jim loved the song and after I explained all the things that we’re working on, she offered to promote our single to their panel of 450 stations for free. Boy, what a hel
More 11.16.07
Capitol Records email?
Today, the song brought us to Capitol Records, where I had the chance to play it for Mike Dungan, who’s the head of the record label in Nashville. On his roster are artists like Keith Urban, Trace Adkins, Chris Cagle, etc... that are doing really well at
More 11.14.07
Country Weekly, CDX, and more
I met with Larry Holden, a friend of mine and the new editor-in-chief of Country Weekly magazine today. I played him our song and he really loved it.
More 11.12.07
Warner Bros. Records called?
As I’ve mentioned in earlier diary entries, to have a large record company help us put out this song would be an incredible help in making sure that the song at least had a chance to be heard by the people.
More 11.09.07
Releasing the song by ourselves...
I’m sitting in my office wondering one thing. How are we gonna get this song out to the people to so they can hear it... that’s been the biggest question. It always is.
More 11.08.07
Crayons and a big heart (our artwork)
The day that the little girl that sang the song came into the studio... she was carrying with her this crayon picture that she had colored for me. It was of a big sun, had lots of color and was just beautiful.
More 11.01.07
Army Man
Tim and I have a really good friend named Rockie Lynne. He’s the fella pictured up above. Rockie’s an artist that was on Universal South for the last couple years, he even had a top 10 or 20 song recently...
More 10.29.07
The Song Trust
From the beginning, we knew we weren’t going to release this song with the little girl’s name or picture attached to it. That would be wrong for us to do.. on so many levels.
More 10.25.07
The little girl
Right after we wrote the song, we started our search for the right little girl to sing it. We asked friends for recommendations, were emailed myspace links to checkout kids, etc...
More 10.17.07
Recording It
Tim had a 5 song demo session booked at County Q studio a week or so after we wrote the song. He was going to be recording a couple other songs and we thought that session would be perfect to add our Christmas song on to.
More 10.05.07
Writing the song
On October 5, my business partner, co-writer and close friend Tim Johnson and I were having breakfast at a local restaurant near Music Row called Noshville, with our song plugger (he pitches songs for us) Adam Olson.
More 12.16.06
The beginning of a song
I originally had the idea of writing a Christmas song this last December. Honestly, it was born out of necessity. In my business, it’s very hard to get songs that you write out to the public. Like most businesses, it can be very inside and political.
More 12.15.06
A Song Diary?
My name is Rory. I’m the guy in the picture wearing the overalls. I always wear them. I’m a songwriter (nobody cares what songwriters look like), a father, a husband and a big-time dreamer.
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