Born 1952, Tracy Minnesota
At 11, Started Learning Guitar and Writing Songs
at 12, Started Playing in Bands
at 17, First Trip to Nashville With Chicago Based Record Company,
Then Returned to Minnesota After Touring the Country
Played in More Bands ( 1969-71)
At 20. Hitch-Hiked Back to Nashville with Forty Bucks and About 100 Original Songs
Has Been Based in Nashville Ever Since
Played as a Solo Artist in Clubs and Honky-Tonks for the Next Six Years
Started Having Writing Success with Many National Jingles
Including 1976 Bi-Centennial Spot with William Shatner called “ Pull for America”
1976-77, Started getting Songs Recorded by Major Artists on Major Labels
Also Started Doing Session Work as a Guitarist With the “A” Team on many Recordings and Working with Publishers David Conrad and Tom Collins
1978, Met Kye Fleming and Started having Hits ( see songs recorded list) In 1984, Started Little shop of Morgansongs (bmi) and Other Publishing Companies Including Morganactive Songs Inc. (ascap), Dennis Morgan Music (bmi) and Cottagehouse Music Inc.(sesac), Which Together Make up the “Morgan Music Group Inc.”
Little Shop got a huge Boost in 1987 with The International Smash
I Knew You Were Waiting (for me), Written by Dennis and Simon Climie and Recorded by Aretha Franklin and George Michael
this record was a Grammy Winner and Topped The Charts the World Over and It Remains One of our Biggest Copyrights
Many other Fine people helped Build Our Companies, Including Great Songwriters Frank Myers ( I Swear) Tony Arata ( the Dance ) and tons of Others !
Since then, Two Recording Studios have been Added with Writers and Catalogs Including Paul Craft, Faron Young etc. etc.
Dennis Continues on a Daily Basis to Write and Record and The Publishing Companies now boast of having Over 8000 songs along with many Master Recordings under the Dreamstreet / Morganville Inc. Umbrella
John Atkinson is our Copyright / catalog Manager (See Photo)
Ginger Hall is our Royalty / office Manager (See Photo)
Michael Pfuntner is our Studio Manager / Head Recording Engineer (see Photo)
Pitching is done by the whole Group plus Independent song Plugger
Sherrill Blackman
CONTACT: songmerch@aol.com | songstorehithut@gmail.com | 615-321-9029 | 615-383-9029
CONTACT: songmerch@aol.com | songstorehithut@gmail.com | 615-321-9029 | 615-383-9029
CONTACT: songmerch@aol.com | songstorehithut@gmail.com | 615-321-9029 | 615-383-9029