Welcome to www.songwriter.li

 

 

 

_________May 2010_________

We just signed a licensing agreement with Soundtaxi.net

several songs

 

 

We just signed a licensing agreement with Crucial Music.

Song: Get Me Out Of Here

co-writer: Michael 'Max' McGee

 

We also signed another licensing agreement with IndieTracksLibrary (10 songs)

 

_________März 2010_________

Great American Songwriting Contest:

Our song "Kiss My Doublewide" was Top 2009 Finalist in the Great American Songwriting Contest. I wrote this song with my co-writer Michael 'Max' McGee.

Category: Country

 

http://www.greatamericansong.com/honorary.html

 

Songdoor Songwriting Contest:

Our song "Do you ever wish it was me" was Top 5 Finalist in the Songdoor Songwriting Contest. I wrote this song with my co-writer Louis Brown.

Category: Country

Two other songs gets Honorable Mentions: Taking me the right way (co-writers: Donna Aylor, Cindy Fay Howard), One two Dejavu (co-writers: David and Dick Holler

 

 

 

Publishing deal: We just signed our song "The edge of love" with Nashville Publisher Butch Paulson: Dreambird Music, BMI, 458 Millwood Drive Nashville, TN 37217

 

We just placed some of our instrumental songs and some of our songs with thesel libraries:

http://www.300monks.com (300 Monks is based in New York City, USA.)

http://audionaked.com/ (Audio Naked is based in Nashville)

http://www.vaultaudio.com/  (Vaultaudio  is based in Nashville)

 

 

_________Januar 2010_________

 

Publishing deal: we just signed our song "Like there's no tomorrow" with Zavitson Music Group in Nashville. (co-writer: Michael 'Max' McGee)

 

Contest news:

Australien Songwriting Contest:

Reach Out  ->Top 10

http://www.asai.org.au/contests/

 

 

_________September  09_________

 

 

Universal Music Publishing in Austria,

Zavitson Music Group Nashville and Tom Long (www.artistandrepertoire.net/)

 

....are working with some of our songs.

We have several songs "on hold" with artists that will release their Cd soon.

 

new co-writer:

I just finished my first song with Songwriter Robert Pfluger from Austria:

Link to the songs

Robert already wrote songs für  Christina Stürmer, Luttenberger*Klug, Manuel Ortega...

 

Contest news:

Two of our songs has made it as top 25 finalists in the Australien Songwriting Contest:

Reach Out

One Two Dejavu

http://www.asai.org.au/contests/

 

Reach Out and Like There's No Tomorrow were semifinalists in the UK Songwriting Contest

 

_________Juli  09_________

 

Publishing deal:

I just signed a contract for a publishing deal from legendary country songwriter Charlie Craig and Powerplay Publishing in Nashville. Charlie has had over 300 of his songs cut by such country luminaries as Reba, Dolly, Travis Tritt, and Alan Jackson---who he took to No. 1 with the classic "Wanted."

Songs:

"Watch Her Fly" (co-writer Ryan Martinez)

"You'll Love Me For It Later" (co-writer Donna Aylor)

 

I signed a contract with:

Erik Jacobsen, http://www.syncfreemusic.com Syncfree Music Library P.O. Box 573 Allendale, New Jersey 07401

Songs:

"Carnival" and "Smooth as silk"

 

_________März  09_________

Song cut:

 

Artist Flo recorded our song "One Two Dejavu"  (Universal Music Switzerland)

Flo was finalist in the show:

News!

 

Great American Songwriting Contest:

Our song "Reach Out" was Top 2008 Finalist in the Great American Songwriting Contest.

Category: Pop/Adult Contemporary:

 

Congratulation to Max and his co-writer Jeff Moxcey for the 'Outstanding Achievement In Songwriting' Awards in the “Great American Song Contest”

http://www.greatamericansong.com/winners.html

 

 

Unisong Contest

 

4 of our songs has made it as Top 20 Finalists in the Unisong contest!!!

 

Pop Ballad TOP 20 FINALISTS:

“You Are The Answer”  (co-writer: Michael “Max” McGee)

 

Pop Uptempo / Dance TOP 20 FINALISTS

“The Lie” (co-writer: Michael “Max” McGee)

 

Country TOP 20 FINALISTS

“My Baby’s Put on Her Shopping Jeans” (co-writer: Michael “Max” McGee)

“Watch Her Fly” (co-writer: Ryan Martinez)

 

 

 

_________Januar  09_________

 

 

We had several songs place highly in Mike Pinders Song Wars Song competition.

       -Love To Go     -Top Ten Finalist
       -Kiss My doublewide- Semi-finalist
       -You Are The Answer--Semi-finalist
       -Reachout--Semifinalist
       -I saw Stars--Honorable Mention
       -For All The Times- Honorable Mention

 

www.songwars.net  Only the category winners seem to be listed right now.

 

 

 

 

My song: "Last Days Of fall" is under contract (non-exclusive) with

Louarmusic: www.louarmusic.com/

 

 

Songdoor contest:

HONORABLE MENTIONS for our songs:

Hang

Happy Hours in Heaven

http://www.songdoor.com/finalists.htm

 

 

 

_________Dezember 08_________

 

Our Song "Reach Out" has made it as top 5 in the songwriteruniverse.com monthly contest (Dez 08)

www.songwriteruniverse.com

 

 

_________September 08_________

Song Cut:

Our song "Watch Her Fly" is on the new CD of Tommy Roberts jr.

www.tommyroberts.de

I wrote the song with Ryan Martinez.

 

 

_________September 08_________

I just receive some results from the UK Songwriting contest

http://www.songwritingcontest.co.uk/

All songs that we entered to this contest has made it as finalist or semi-finalist!
Finalists
Hang
Unholy Heart
Semi-Finalist
Kiss My Double Wide
She's Where She Needs To Be
South of Love and Fourteen
50 Cards, A Case of Beer and A Pack of Cigarettes
Shopping Jeans
Building Walls
Happy Hours In Heaven
Watch her fly
Take it from me
I wrote all songs with my co-writer Michael 'Max' McGee
except:
Take it from me  -> with Chris Breen
Watch her fly -> with Ryan Martinez
 

As finalist we beat around 6,000 other entries to acheive that position.

Semi finalists: the songs was among the top 15 percent of over 6,200 songs.

 

 

_________August 08_________

I just receive some results from the 100-music-songwriting-contest.com

My Baby's Put on Her Shopping Jeans / category Rock

 

-----> is a finalist!!   

 

overall winners will be announced at the end of October 2008.


We are listed under swisssongwriter!


http://www.100-music-songwriting-contest.com/finalists-2008


Semifinalist:
http://www.100-music-songwriting-contest.com/semi-finalists-2008
Swisssongwriter - Love Tan Adult Contemporary/Pop
Swisssongwriter - Love To Go Acoustic/Country/Bluegrass

Honor awards:
http://www.100-music-songwriting-contest.com/honor-awards-2008
Swisssongwriter - Happy Hours in Heaven Acoustic/Country/Bluegrass
Swisssongwriter - Kiss my Doublewide Acoustic/Country/Bluegrass
Swisssongwriter - No Man's Land Acoustic/Country/Bluegrass
Swisssongwriter - Unholy Heart Adult Contemporary/Pop
Swisssongwriter - Watch her Fly Acoustic/Country/Bluegrass

 

 

_________August 08_________

Our Song "Kiss my doublewide" was on the...

... 2nd place - category country

...of the indie international contest!

http://www.indieinternational.com/

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

_________July 08_________

Our Song "Hang" is the winner-song in the category country of the

Song Of The Year Contest (Month: May)!

http://www.songoftheyear.com/winners/2008/052008.htm

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

_________Juni 08_________

New contracts:

We just signed a contract with Nashville Publisher:

Butch Paulson

Dreambird Music, BMI, 458 Millwood Drive Nashville, TN 37217

Songs:

Useless

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

_________April 08_________

We received HONORABLE MENTIONS for

Unholy Heart (co-writer Michael 'Max' McGee)

Watch Her Fly (co-writer Ryan Martinez)

in the West Coast Songwriter contest:

http://www.westcoastsongwriters.org/contest_winnerinfo.htm

 

 

_________Mars 08_________

Our Song "No Man's Land" has made it as Finalist in the Great American Song Contest!

We received HONORABLE MENTIONS for "A Moment"

http://www.greatamericansong.com/honorary.html

 

 

Song Cut:

Our song "Crying hard to get over you" will be on the new CD from

Trinity Lane

Trinity is signed with KMA Records

http://www.trinityannelane.net/

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

 

all the songs that we entered in the Durango Song
Competition
placed in the top 30 of the contest

pop/rock: 1 800 GoodBye and Unholy Heart

country Useless

 

_________Februar 08_________

"UmUm Good" and "Watch Her Fly"  were Semi-Finalists (top 20) in the 'International Songwriting Competition'

http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/Semi-Finalists_2007.htm

I wrote "UmUm Good" with my co-writer Max.

I wrote "Watch Her Fly" with my co-writer Ryan Martinez

 

We received HONORABLE MENTIONS for   "Don't forget to forgive"

in 3rd Annual International Narrative Song Competition:

http://www.narrativemusic.ca/insc.html

 

_________Januar 08_________

New contracts:

We just signed a contract with Spectrum Music France

Song: Picking Cherries.

 

Our song "A Moment" was a Top 5 finalist in the

"Best Song Of The Month" - Contest

http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/contestwinner50-123.htm

 

We received Country HONORABLE MENTIONS for   "A Moment"

in the Songdoor contest:

http://www.songdoor.com/finalists.htm

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

_________September 07_________

Our song "Building Walls" was a Top 5 finalist in the

"Best Song Of The Month" - Contest

http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/contestwinner50-123.htm

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

_________Juli 07_________

Our songs "Love To Go" and "Kiss My Doublewide"

were Country TOP 20 FINALISTS

in the Unisong-Contest 2006

http://www.unisong.com/Winners11.aspx

We also received Country HONORABLE MENTIONS for  "Me and George Strait" and "Yesterday’s News"

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

_________Juni 07_________

The new CD from Andy Martin (multi-award-winning country artist from Switzerland)  is now available

Our song "Country Country" is on the CD!

You can order the CD here:

http://www.andymartin.ch/

www.turicaphon.ch

www.cede.ch

www.abella.ch

www.amazon.de

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

 

New contracts:

We just signed a contract with

Screaming Tomato Publishing (ASCAP) • Screaming Tom Publishing (BMI):

http://www.screamingtom.com/

Songs:

I want to own the restaurant

Me George Strait and this long country road

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

 

_________May 07_________

New contracts:

We just signed a contract with Bruce Allen Music:

http://www.bruceallenmusic.com/

Song

Carver Holler

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

_________March 07_________

New contracts:

We just signed a contract with Nashville Publisher:

Butch Paulson

Dreambird Music, BMI, 458 Millwood Drive Nashville, TN 37217

Songs:

His and Hers

A Moment

Good Old Boys R Us Night

Love To Go

Love Is Like Lava

Kiss My Doublewide

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

We just signed a non-exclusive contract with Nashville Publisher Bob Dellaposta (http://www.my3kidsmusic.com/)

for our song:

Crying hard to get over you

 

_________March 07_________

Grand Prize Winner! (in the category country)

Our song 'Beyond Words' has made it as

Grand Prize Winner in the John Lennon Song Contest

http://www.jlsc.com/winners/2006b/winners.php

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

 

_________Januar 07_________

 

Seven of our songs are now at the next level of judging in the International Song Competition.

This one ( You and Texas)and...

 

Restaurant

The Right DNA

No Man's Land

Daddy's Girl

Kiss My doublewide

Beyond Words

 

_________Januar 07_________

ONS Band has recorded our song 'For All The Times'!

http://www.onsband.net/

One Night Stand Plays mix of HOT Top 40 Country, Southern Rock, Classic Rock, and Original Music!   They play Rockin’ country –  ONS Style

 

_________Dezember 06_________

First Cut!

Andy Martin (multi-award-winning country artist from Switzerland) will record his new CD in Nashville (Feb 07). Our song "Country Country" will be on his new CD.

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

Kiss My Doublewide

has made it as

finalist  in the

U.S.A Songwriting Competition

http://www.songwriting.net/winners.html

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

 

_________September 06_________

Kiss My Doublewide has made it as

finalist (=top 4) in the

John Lennon Song Contest.

http://www.jlsc.com/winners/2006a/finalists.php

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

 

We are now member of NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International)

 

 

_________August 06_________

We will sign a contract with Nashville Publisher:

Butch Paulson

Dreambird Music, BMI, 458 Millwood Drive Nashville, TN 37217

Songs:

No Man's Land

Have You Seen Me Lately

The Right DNA

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

:__________________________________________________

Kiss My Doublewide has made it as one of the top 5 in the Song of the Year Contest in june 06.

http://www.songoftheyear.com/winners/2006/062006.htm

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

_________April 06_________

We are glad to have two well known Nashville songwriters (and publishers) helping us to pitch two of our songs:

Darlene Austin (Many More Music, Vinecreek Music)

Song: "Country Country"

Charlie Craig

Song: "Me George Strait and this long country road"

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

_________Dezember 05_________

We (Michael 'Max' McGee and I)  just signed a contract with Jim Foster from

Cosmic Mule Music (Nashville)

for our song:

Crying Hard To Get Over You

 

_________Oktober 05_________

We (Michael 'Max' McGee and I)  just signed a songplugging contract with Jo Crowe for three of our songs.

For all The Times
Daddy's Girl
Good To The Last Teardrop

 

Daddy's Girl has made it
as one of the top 5  in the
Song of the Year Contest in august.

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

_________September 05_________

'For all time' was  in the runner-up category in the Song of the Year Contest in july.

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

In a few weeks we'll have a professional demo (recorded by Larry Beaird Studios Nashville) of this song.

_________August 05_________

I just signed another contract

with Errol Peters  from Pegasus Music

for my Jazz-songs

It's Just Summertime, Change The Rhythm, Pam

_________August 05_________

I just signed another contract

with Errol Peters  from

Pegasus Music

for the song

Highway To Heaven

I wrote this song together with Michael 'Max' McGee

 

_________March 05_________

We just signed a contract with Chris Keaton (songplugger from Nashville)

for our song:

Don't call

 

_________Januar 05_________

We just signed a contract with Eric Wilkey (songplugger from Nashville)

for our song:

Wish she were here

 

_________Dezember 04_________

We just signed a contract with Errol Peters  from

Pegasus Music

for four songs:

I have never seen the rainbow

Time will not wait a day

Without you

My heart is crying out for you

and:

Now you can listen to our new songs on our Andromeda Jukebox: Irish and Jazz songs

_________August 04_________

We just signed a contract with Ed Russell from

TOWER MUSIC GROUP

for two songs

Wednesday's Child

Going Down

 

  

 

 

 We are now member with BMI (for USA and Canada)