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Personal Discography

• Advisory Board Member, 'Artists Helping Artists' 2004
  
• Advisory Board Member, Methodfest Film Festival 2002-Present
  
• Advisory Board Member, Pasadena Arts Council 1993 - Present
  
• Advisory Board Member, The Lightbringer Project, Pasadena 1993-Presents
  
• Union Station Homeless Shelter 'Listening Room' Fundraiser 1999
  
• Founder, 'Listening Room Concert Series', CA 1998
  
• Executive director, Kerrville Folk Festival Foundation, for the 1997 year
  
• Founding Partner, UNISONG International Song Contest, 1996
  
• Executive Director/CEO, National Academy of Songwriters, 1995-96
  
• Publisher, SongTalk Magazine, Hollywood, CA 1996
  
• Founding Member, MusiCares Publisher/Songwriter Committee 1995
  
• Founder, 'State Street Manor' House Concert Series 1993
  
• Founding Member, Amnesty Group 496, 1993
  
• Founder, 'Works Of Heart' Not For Profit Artist Booking, Consulting, 1993
  
• Union Station Homeless Shelter Fundraiser 1991 'The Sneaks' Reunion Concert
  
• Pasadena Tournament Of Roses Association, White Suiter Volunteer 1989-1999
  
• Director, Economic Development Committee, Pasadena Chamber of Commerce 1989
  
• International Services Director, Rotary International Club, Arcadia, 1988
  
• Intercultural Committee, Arcadia Chamber of Commerce, 1987
  
• California Special Olympics, Honorary Band 'The Sneaks' 1983
  
  

Washington, D.C. -- In what is probably the most
significant gathering of legendary American
songwriters fighting for their rights in Washington,
twenty pop music pioneers joined National Music
Publishers' Association President & CEO Edward P.
Murphy to rally against the controversial "La Cienega"
ruling on pre-1978 recordings.

The federal court ruling, "La Cienega Music Co. v. ZZ
Top," threatens virtually every song written in America
before 1978 with loss of copyright protection --
jeopardizing the creative rights and livelihoods of tens
of thousands of American songwriters.

The songwriting delegation included:

• Herb Alpert, Leader of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
  
• Alan & Marilyn Bergman ("The Way We Were", "The Windmills of Your Mind")
  
• Mike Stoller ("Hound Dog", "Stand By Me")
  
• John Sebastian ("Do You Believe In Magic", "Welcome Back")
  
• Felix Cavalieri, Co-Founder, The Young Rascals ("Groovin'", "Beautiful Morning")
  
• Cy Coleman, Broadway Musical Composer (Sweet Charity, Barnum, The Life)
  
• Lamont Dozier ("You Keep Me Hangin' On", "My World Is Empty Without You, Babe"
  [For Diana Ross and the Supremes])
  
• Bobby Weinstein ("Goin' Out of My Head", "Hurts so Bad" [for Little Anthony and the Imperials])
  
• Guy Clark ("Desperadoes Waiting For A Train" [For Willie Nelson], "Baton Rouge"[For Garth Brooks])
  
• Irving Burgie ("Day-o [The Banana Boat Song]", "Jamaica Farewell" [For Harry Belafonte])
  
• John Hartford ("Gentle On My Mind" [For Glen Campbell])
  
• Dennis Morgan ("Kansas City Lights [for Steve Wariner]" , "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool"
  [For Barbara Mandrell])
  
• Wayland Holyfield ("Could I Have This Dance" [for Anne Murray], "Till the Rivers All Run Dry"
  [for Don Williams])
  
• Jerry Fuller ("Travelin' Man" [For Ricky Nelson and Don McLean])
  
• Chip Davis ("Convoy", Fresh Aire I-IV album series)
  
• Randy Sharp ("A Tender Lie", "Take Your Love Away")
  
• Ginnie Mancini, widow of Henry Mancini, ("Moon River", "The Days of Wine and Roses")
  
• Ingrid Croce, widow of Jim Croce ("Bad Bad Leroy Brown", "Time In a Bottle")