Best Songs of the DSA Meeting

Best Songs of the 2nd Tuesday Meeting 2012

2012-01-15T10:09:00.000-08:00

JAN 2012

Drivin' Me Crazy by Michael Brandenberg

Critique Panel: Nancy Rynders and Joe Milton

BEST SONGS OF THE MEETING 2011

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JAN
Ask Your Heart by Vern Dailey
Beautiful For Just A Moment by Guy Rourk

FEB
Our Heaven On Earth by Vern Dailey

MARCH

Where Are The Daddies by Nancy Rynders

A Time For Love by Michael Brandenberger

APRIL

And Chicken Wings by Will Brown

Never Together Anymore by Nancy Rynders

MAY

Tear for Joanna by Casey Graham

The Gingerbread Man by Loretta Dunnaway

JUNE

Small Town Girl by James Pappas and Roger Russell

I Let Her Get Away by Nancy Rynders

JULY

Keep on Riding by Brook Malouf

I Don't by Ray Phillips

SEPT

Dr Love by James Pappas

That's Why by Vern Dailey

OCT

Hobo Gypsy King by James Pappas

Cross My Heart by Vern Dailey

NOV

Again by James Pappas

I'm A Witness by Nancy Rynders

DEC

No Critiques at the Christmas Party

BEST SONGS OF THE MEETING 2010

2011-02-02T18:59:00.000-08:00

ANNOUNCED AT THE JUNE 14TH 2011 MEETING

Songwriters of the Year - Vern Dailey

Song of the Year This Love by Bob Paterno and Scott Sean White

JAN 2010

Man Card by Brooke Malouf

By Myself by Nancy Rynders

FEB

This Love by Bob Paterno

MARCH MADNESS - no critiques this month

APRIL Co-writes - no critiques this month

MAY

I Tell My Heart by Vern Dailey and Amber Dotson

JUNE

Loves Gonna Change Your Mind by Vern Dailey and Clay Potter

Will You Save A Drowning Man by Nancy Rynders

JULY

Worth Every Penny by Michael Brandenberger

SEPT

Blue Side of the Red River by Vern Dailey

Hero Where It Counts by Brooke Malouf

OCT

I Know by Brook Malouf

Kiss Me and Make Me Better by Nancy Rynders

NOV

The Checker at Counter Nine by Nancy Rynders and Vern Dailey

Whiskey Wins by Donna Scoggins

BEST SONGS OF 2009

2009-11-05T09:27:00.000-08:00

Announced at our July 13th meeting.....

Songwriter of the Year, Vern Dailey
(Songwriter with most winning songs in 2009.)
Read about Vern here: http://dsapress.blogspot.com/2010/08/legend-in-his-own-time.html
and Song of the Year, "It Was Easy For You" by Ray Phillips and Richard Davis. Second place was "You Shined on Me" by Phillips and Davis, and third was "Good and Faithful" by Stephen Blackwell.

Our Song of the Year judge this year is Terri Jo Box
Box was blessed with 3 top 10 singles on the Christian Country Charts, nominated for 1999 Female Vocalist of the Year and her single "Faith" was voted one of the top 15 Songs of the Year in 2000. With a dream of still "making it" in the Country world, she loaded up the U-haul and left Nacogdoches, Texas for Music City. TJ has been focusing primarily on her writing in the last couple of years..."its such a rush to finish one...they're all my favorites" She still has a dual passion for writing the song and then singing it to see how the audience reacts. She also books and hosts two weekly singer/songwriter nights, McGuinness Girls Night on Monday nights, at Dan McGuinness right on music row and Tuesday nights at the "The Rusty Nail" in Hermitage. http://www.myspace.com/terrijobox

JANUARY
Cross My Heart by Vern Dailey

FEBRUARY
Easy For You by Ray Philips and Richard Davis

MARCH
Shined On Me by Ray Phillips and Richard Davis
Look Beyond by Jerry Dobson

APRIL
Our Heaven On Earth by Vern Dailey
Always A Day Behind by Roger Russell and Bill Amos

MAY - no critiques

JUNE
First Place...Cross My Heart by Vern Dailey and Leslie Brooks
Tie for Second Place...Wishing In One Hand by Jerry Dobson and Daughter of Texas Wind by Morri Hartgraves

JULY
Which Side of My Heart by Vern Dailey

SEPT
Things I Don't Mind by Bob Paterno (The Stitts brothers proclaimed this one a hit)
Futile Attraction by Vern Dailey

OCT
Good and Faithful by Stephen Blackwell

He Was A Soldier by Justin and Jennifer Marler

NOV

I Can't by Justin Marler

Kissed You Goodbye by Vern Dailey and Sheryl Caddick

Ray Phillips- 2008 Songwriter of the Year

2009-11-05T09:23:00.001-08:00

Ray Phillips- 2008 Songwriter of the Year
by Buck Morgan

September on My Mind

is winning song of 2008 DSA monthly song critiques

With a hand in writing half of the 16 winning songs in the DSA monthly song contest, Ray Phillips, excuse me, the amazingly talented Ray Phillips is the runaway DSA Songwriter of the Year for 2008.
In addition, independent judges have recently chosen Ray’s song, “September in My Mind,” as DSA Song of the Year.
Clearly a favorite among DSA members, Ray faced stiff competition with the judges. You see, his songs had to beat out his songs in independent judging for Song of the Year. Ultimately the judges chose Ray and writing partner Richard Davis’ “September in My Mind,” beating out another Phillips/Davis tune, “She Loves to Infinity”.
Other songs among the judges’ favorites were “We Don’t Eat Together Anymore” by Bob Paterno and, yes, Ray Phillips, “A Man’s Gotta Do” by 2007 songwriter of the year Ed Williams, and “Dancing Feet and Honkytonk Hearts” by Vern Dailey, who’s won songwriter of the year numerous times.
“Finding great songs by DSA members is never a problem, but it’s always a challenge to find good judges,” said Steve Sullivan, DSA president. “That’s one reason we’re a little late in making this announcement. However, we’re very pleased to have found three music industry professionals to listen to and rate our songs.
Judges were: Mark Mason, a writer’s representative for BMI in Nashville. Mark listens to hundreds of songs every month and is a well-respected member of the Nashville writers’ community.
Steve Leslie is a professional songwriter with multiple Darryl Worley cuts, including two on his current album. George Strait has also covered one of Steve’s songs. In addition to songwriting, Steve runs a publishing company in Nashville and enjoys teaching songwriting.
Louis Lofredo is a long-time industry insider, producer and publisher and a good friend of DSA.
Those of you who regularly attend monthly meetings know that on most months DSA members submit songs for panel critiquing and membership scoring. The two highest scoring songs each month become nominees for Song of the Year. On months with fewer than six song submissions, only one song is nominated.
The DSA is proud of Ray and all the monthly winners and submitters. To hear some of Ray’s songs, please visit http://www.myspace.com/rayphillipssongwriter From there you can leap to Ed and Bob’s pages. If you want to know more about Vern Dailey, just Google him. He’s a Texas treasure.

BEST SONGS OF 2008

2009-02-04T10:59:00.000-08:00

2007 Winning Song

No Better Day

by Ed Williams
2007 Songwriter of the Year- Ed Williams

2008 Winning song :

September On My Mind

by Ray Phillips
2008 Songwriter of the Year: Ray Phillips (Writer that had the most winning songs throughout the year)

NOV 2007
"A Man's Gotta Do" by Ed Williams
"Out of Time" by Lisa Apple

DEC 2007
"Nothing Left To Burn" by Vicky Williams

JAN 2008
"The Promise" by Ray Phillips, Jim Bardfield, Jesse Block

FEB 2008
"Break Even" by Charles Sterling
"Dancing Feet & Honky Tonk Hearts" by Vern Dailey

MARCH 2008
"Until Love Comes This Way" by Ray Phillips & Richard Davis

APRIL 2008
Weeds In The Sandbox" by Vern Dailey and Beverly Houston

MAY 2008
"We Don't Eat Together Anymore" by Ray Phillips & Bob Paterno

JUNE 2008
"The Road I'm Walkin' Now" by Ray Phillips
"Honky Tonkin" by Vern Dailey

JULY 2008
"Cowgirl Ballerina" by Ray Phillips & Richard Davis

SEPT 2008
"September in My Mind" by Ray Phillips & Richard Davis
"Something Good" by Jennifer Carson

OCT 2008
"She Loves to Infinity " by Ray Phillips & Richard Davis

NOV 2008
"Stupid Questions" by Bob Paterno and Ray Phillips

DEC 2008
"Love Is Just Another Word" by Bob Paterno

Listen to the podcast of the above songs and vote on your favorite:
http://dallassongwriters.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-04-05T08_10_20-07_00

Download a pdf hard copy of the Oct 2009 Songwriters Notes with 2008 best songs of the meeting winners announced.http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=1520070&da=y

Hear the winners each month on http://www.myspace.com/dallassongwriters

The overall winner of the 2008 Monthly Song critiques was Ray Phillips with the song "September in my Mind".
"She Loves to Infinity" and "We Don't Eat Together Anymore" placed second and third, respectively. See details below.

Our judges were Mark Mason (BMI - writer's rep in Nashville), Steve Leslie (Pro songwriter & music publisher in Nashville), Louis Lofredo (Pro producer and music publisher in New York).

Each judge picked a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner. The winners below were determined by compiling the scores as follows: 1st place winners were given a value of three points, 2nd place winners were given 2 points, and 3rd place winners were given 1 point.

Louis scored as follows:
1st place She Loves to Infinity
2nd place A Man's Gotta Do
3rd place We Don't Eat Together Anymore

Mark scored as follows:
1st place September in My Mind
2nd place We Don't Eat Together Anymore
3rd place She Loves to Inifinity

Steve scored as follows:
1st place September in My Mind
2nd place Love Is Just Another Word
3rd place Dancing Feet and Honkytonk Hearts

September in My Mind
1st Place overall with -- 0 + 3 + 3 = 6

She Loves to Infinity
2nd place overall with -- 3+1+0 = 4

We Don't Eat Together Anymore
3rd place overall with -- 1 + 2 + 0 = 3

A Man's Gotta Do
Love Is Just Another Word
4th place tied overall with 2 points each

Dancing Feet and Honkytonk Hearts
5th place overall with 1 point