LIVING IN AMERICA

Created on 21/05/2001
Latest update on 16/02/2024

Artist: Dan Hartman
Author: Dan Hartman/Charlie Midnight
Label: Columbia
Year: 1985

Demo version released on his posthumous cd Keep The Fire Burnin'. Dan died of AIDS in '94. Together with Charlie Midnight, Dan also wrote Gravity for James Brown ánd How Do You Stop, better known through Joni Mitchell's version (see there). Relight My Fire, another Dan Hartman original, became a n°1 UK for Take That (see there).

Covers:

1985:

James Brown [in film Rocky IV; n°2 B]

1986:

Weird Al Yankovic [as Living With A Hernia]

Stevie Ray Vaughan played guitar on both JB cover and original. Dan produced the James Brown cover and cowrote (again with Charlie Midnight) his How Do You Stop (see there) and Gravity. See also Relight My Fire.

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