Frances and Harry Date
Frances and Harry Date
Song Matchmakers Network
You may know Frances and Harry Date as former Public Relations Directors for Tennessee Songwriters Association International (TSAI) or as Nashville songwriters, but they have assumed a new role as Song Matchmakers so people all over the world have an opportunity for their songs to be heard by a Nashville publisher.
“You never know where that song may come from," says Frances. "We started Song Matchmakers Network for songwriters, artist and bands to connect with us if they have that incredible song for artists, movies, and TV.”
Frances and Harry agree with that well known adage, “It’s all about the song,” and they decided to give the songs the attention they deserve. There are so many great writers unable to get a publishing deal because of the changes in our industry. Artists are also finding it difficult to get record deals. We want to provide a network for these talented people to have someone believe in them and work for them.
Harry explains: “The ‘song’ is our client. Although we are music publishers, we do not conduct business in the traditional way. We don’t have staff writers, and we’re not song pluggers collecting a monthly fee. Our interest is in finding great songs in and out of town, getting them heard, and getting them cut. Being songwriters ourselves, we know how hard it is to write that magical song, so we decided to champion the cause of those great unknown songs.
We're finding songs in all music styles for artist, movie, TV, and Indy cuts in the USA and Europe. If we believe in a song, we’ll do everything possible to get it heard. Then it’s up to the song to do the rest.”
Frances and Harry Date
Frances and Harry Date are TSAI (Tennessee Songwriters Association International) award winning songwriters. They have lived in Nashville since 2000 and are well known and respected on Nashville’s Music Row.
They network with and interview top Industry people, such as Tony Brown, Producer; Teddy Gentry, Alabama; Lisa Ramsey-Perkins, Sony A&R; Doug Johnson, Curb Records VP A&R; Mark Bright, Producer; Michael Knox, Producer, Anastasia Brown, Format Entertainment,; Craig Weisman, hit writer; and other top industry people. Frances and Harry have been writing country songs for 15 years. They won the Tennessee Songwriters International (TSAI) Co-Writers Award in 2002. Frances won the Most Promising Female Writer in 2004, and Harry won the Most Promising Male writer in 2008.
Their songs are on the TSAI Gold Nuggets, a program that compiles the top songs by TSAI members—as determined by how often they are picked up by guest publishers, producers, artists, and A&R executives during weekly meetings—and puts them on a CD that is distributed to Music Row executives. On Volume I they have two songs out of ten; on Volume II they have four songs out of 12, on Volume III they have the number one song out of eight. Visit www.tnsai.com and click on Top Songs. These songs are also available in the Song Catalog.
They have co-written songs with many of Nashville’s hit writers, including Karen Taylor-Good, Brian White, Jim Femino, Dylan Altman, and Byron Hill. Their songs have been recorded by several Indy Artists and are on projects of varied types, one of which is Project Route 66, which will help restore a treasured part of the American experience, the legendary Route 66 (www.projectroute66.com) that carried Americans from Chicago to LA in search of a better life.