NONE OF US IS POWERLESS - EACH HAS THEIR PATH, THEIR PASSION AND
PLACES WHERE WE CAN GIVE BACK OF OUR TIME, KNOWLEDGE, LABOR, SPIRITUAL AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
FIND WHERE YOUR SPIRIT RESONATES , AND LET THE WORLD BE TOUCHED BY ECHOES OF YOUR ENERGY...
RECOMMENDED SITES OF ADVOCACY INVOLVEMENT
American Civil Liberties Union
Feeding America (Formerly Second Harvest)
Personal Discography
- Advisory Board Member, 'Artists Helping Artists' 2004
- Advisory Board Member, Methodfest Film Festival 2002-2004
- Advisory Board Member, Pasadena Arts Council 1993 - 2004
- Advisory Board Member, The Lightbringer Project, Pasadena 1993-2004
- 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
CONGRESSIONAL COPYRIGHT DEBATE HEATS UP IN WASHINGTON:
LEGENDARY SONGWRITERS RALLY AGAINST CONTROVERSIAL "LA CIENEGA" RULING
National Music Publishers Association
Songwriter Delegation visit to Capitol Hill
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")