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  Wikinfo | Wayland Holyfield
Wayland Holyfield was born on 15 March 1942 in Mallettown, Arkansas.
Holyfield played the song at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1992 and it was selected as the State song of Arkansas by the Arkansas legislature in 1993.
Holyfield was the 1983 ASCAP Country Writer of the Year co-winner and in 1992 he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and to the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.phtml?title=Wayland_Holyfield   (541 words)

  
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 Wayland Holyfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In addition to Williams, Holyfield's songs have been recorded by numerous Nashville luminaries including George Strait, Reba McEntire, Tammy Wynette, Conway Twitty, Charley Pride, Randy Travis, The Judds, Mark Chesnut, John Anderson, Mel Street, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Oak Ridge Boys, Ernest Tubb, Anne Murray, and others.
Holyfield played the song at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1992.
Holyfield received a Grammy Award nomination in 1972 for "Could I Have this Dance" and in 1979 he received the NSAI Presidential Award.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wayland_Holyfield   (587 words)

  
 Wayland Holyfield
Holyfield is proudest, he says, of "Could I Have This Dance," which he co-wrote with Bob House.
Holyfield was born in Mallettown, Arkansas, in 1942.
Holyfield was elected to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992.
www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com /fame/holyfld.html   (652 words)

  
 Wayland Holyfield - AOL Music
"When you write a song," observes Wayland Holyfield, "you're writing a very edited version of a short story." He should know-he's written many of the...
Wayland Holyfield is a native of Little Rock, Ark., where he attended public schools and completed his formal education with a marketing degree from the...
Download, listen and watch Wayland Holyfield music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/wayland-holyfield/87647/main   (110 words)

  
 Nashville Songwriters Foundation Board
Since then Wayland has been honored with 37 ASCAP and BMI awards and has written more than 40 Top 10 hits, including 14 # 1 songs.
Long active as an advocate for songwriters' rights, Wayland was the first Nashville-based writer to be elected to the ASCAP Board of Directors.
Wayland has also served as President of the NSAI and as Chairman of the NSF.
www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com /board.html   (2089 words)

  
 2006 Judicial Conference :: Speakers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wayland Holyfield is an award winning songwriter whose songs have been recorded and performed all over the world.
Wayland has testified on behalf of songwriters before both Senate and House Judiciary Committees in Washington, DC.
Wayland also wrote Arkansas You Run Deep In Me, which has been adopted as the official state song of Arkansas.
www.ca10.uscourts.gov /judconf/speakers.php   (4443 words)

  
 University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service :: Clinton, Pryor Announce Clinton School Inaugural Class
From 1998-2000, she was an AmeriCorps member who worked at Travis High School in Austin, and she also has served as an operations coordinator for the Teach for America Summer Institute in Los Angeles.
He is the son of Arkansas native Wayland Holyfield, who wrote the official state song, "Arkansas, You Run Deep in Me." * Dawn M. Jaycox, 24, of Vermillion, S.D., the AmeriCorps*Vista (Volunteers in Service to America) coordinator with the Interdisciplinary Education and Action Program at the University of South Dakota.
As a community-based learning coordinator, she promoted and expanded the service-learning office and coordinated events such as service trainings to students and regional community agencies.
sev.prnewswire.com /null/20050419/DAM09018042005-1.html   (1788 words)

  
 06/21/95 Committee on the Judiciary Holyfield Statement re H.R. 1506
06/21/95 Committee on the Judiciary Holyfield Statement re H.R. Songwriter and Member of the Board of Directors of the
ASCAP, on behalf of its more than 65,000 songwriter and publisher members, strongly supports H.R. ù This legislation is needed to preserve the health of the music industry in the digital age, by granting a new performance right in sound recordings which will benefit record companies and performing artists.
Chairman, I again want to repeat, in the strongest terms, our support for H.R. We will do everything we can to help you enact this much-needed legislation.
judiciary.house.gov /legacy/490.htm   (1488 words)

  
 Wayland Holyfield > ASCAP Board of Directors
Grammy-nominated Wayland Holyfield is one of Nashville's most acclaimed and successful songwriters, the writer or co-writer of over 40 Top Ten hits and 14 #1 songs.
Among the numerous artists who have recorded Holyfield's music are Anne Murray, Don Williams, Randy Travis, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Peter Townsend, Reba McEntire, Ernest Tubb, George Strait and George Jones.
He has previously served on the ASCAP Board of Directors from 1990 to 1999.
www.ascap.com /about/board/holyfield-bio.html   (100 words)

  
 Arkansas You Run Deep In Me Arkansas State Song Written and Composted by Wayland Holyfield
Arkansas You Run Deep In Me Arkansas State Song Written and Composted by Wayland Holyfield
October morning in the Ozark Mountains, Hills ablazing like that sun in the sky.
No copyright is claimed on non-original or licensed material.
www.netstate.com /states/symb/song/ar_arkansas.htm   (176 words)

  
 DISCOGRAPHY
Till The Rivers All Run Dry (Wayland Holyfield, Don Williams)
She Never Knew Me (Bob McDill, Wayland Holyfield)
Wayland Holyfield, Garthi Fundis, Joe Allen, Sharon Vaughn, Don Williams Band - Vocal Harmony
don-williams-fan.tripod.com /discography1.htm   (1485 words)

  
 Prairie Knights | Don Williams
His first single with ABC/Dot, "I Wouldn't Want to Live (If You Didn't Love Me)" topped the charts in 1974, launching a string of Top 10 hits over the next 17 years.
Included in this string was Williams’ version of Wayland Holyfield's "You're My Best Friend," which has become a standard and is the perennial sing-along anthem at his concerts.
III hit the country charts in November 1974 and peaked at # 3.
www.prairieknights.com /pavilion/dwilliams   (522 words)

  
 6/26/97 Committee on the Judiciary - Witness List
It is in global use; it is sanctified in international treaties, and it should be protected by the Congress of the United States.
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF My name is Wayland Holyfield.
I am a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, known as ASCAP.
judiciary.house.gov /legacy/4191.htm   (3952 words)

  
 CMT.com : Billy Edd Wheeler : Allen Reynolds, Mac Davis, Billy Edd Wheeler and Randy Goodrum Enter Nashville ...
Presented by the Nashville Songwriters Foundation in association with the Nashville Songwriters Association International, the 31st annual dinner and induction ceremony was hosted by NSF Chairman Wayland Holyfield and attended by some 600 music industry professionals.
The dinner kicked off a week of gala events surrounding the 34th Annual Country Music Association Awards show, which airs live from the Grand Ole Opry House at 8 p.m.
Presenting Goodrum with his citation in the 1970-80 division, Holyfield read the Arkansas native a letter of congratulations from President Clinton, a saxophonist who performed with Goodrum in a high school jazz combo.
www.cmt.com /artists/news/1472520/06112003/wheeler_billy_edd.jhtml   (961 words)

  
 Arkansas Acoustic Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
At 1 pm Sunday, April 21, a Keynote Luncheon will occur in the Brewer-Hegeman Conference Center, next door to Reynolds Performance Hall.
Arkansas native Wayland Holyfield, who wrote the Arkansas Sesquicentennial State Song (“Arkansas, You Run Deep In Me”) and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, will deliver a keynote address.
Following the Keynote Luncheon, Holyfield and National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion Pat Kirtley, along with Arkansas recording artist Jared Young, will present workshops in acoustic music, songwriting, fingerstyle guitar techniques, and making your own CD’s.
www.uca.edu /communications/newsreleases/ArkansasAcousticFestival.html   (604 words)

  
 HCR1003
Eva Ware Barnett, as the official state song, and the coyright to said song has been granted to the State of Arkansas; and
WHEREAS, the song "Arkansas (You Run Deep in Me)" by Wayland Holyfield is an additional song that is appropriate to be designated as a state song;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE REGULAR SESSION OF THE SEVENTY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN:
www.netstate.com /states/symb/song/acts/ar_hcr1003.htm   (143 words)

  
 p2pnet.net | news | Nashville visits Congress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
About 50 songwriters lobbied lawmakers to support efforts by the Recording Industry Association of America to stop Internet users from illegally downloading and distributing music online."
She quotes songwriter Wayland Holyfield as saying, "We're just real folks that are trying to make a living.
This is letting people know that this is not just Hollywood or the RIAA or Britney Spears."
p2pnet.net /article/8137   (232 words)

  
 CowboyJackClement.com
Many writers would have missed Jack as well.
Starting in Memphis and Beaumont with Dickey Lee and Allen Reynolds, Jack befriended and published the songs of many of the premier songwriters of our time, including Bob McDill, Don Williams, Wayland Holyfield, Jim Rushing, Kent Westberry, Vince Matthews, Paul Craft, Sandy Mason, and Townes Van Zandt.
Jack Music, JMI Records, Jack Clement Recording Studios, and Jack's Tracks were a combination writing, recording, and producing collaborative workshop which significantly influenced the direction and sound of modern country music.
www.cowboyjackclement.com /bio/articles/1988_bio.html   (513 words)

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