EXCLUSIVE – Lee Greenwood and Sara Evans are releasing new songs with a shock songwriter within the credit, the late President Ronald Reagan.
Reagan could have been busy operating for president of the United States again within the Seventies and ending out his tenure as California governor, however he nonetheless made time to co-write a number of patriotic songs with document producer Mike Curb, the founder and chairman of Curb Records.
Curb stated that he met Reagan in 1974, his final yr as governor, at an occasion for Junior Achievement, a charity that teaches college students the ideas of free enterprise. The two hit it off and Reagan requested the songwriter if he needed to assist him in his marketing campaign for president.
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Curb credit brutal California visitors for giving him and Reagan loads of time to jot down songs collectively within the ‘70s, beginning with “Together, a New Beginning.”
“And so again within the ’70s, there’s a lot visitors in California that I used to journey with them,” Curb informed Fox News Digital. “And on a number of events, we wrote songs collectively. One of them was the theme for the conference in 1980 that performed. It was known as, ‘Together, a New Beginning’… a number of of our recording artists got here to the conference. It was in Detroit that yr… And then that track was sung on the conference.”
Ronald Reagan throughout his run for the presidency. (Getty Images)
Reagan misplaced the Republican nomination to Gerald Ford in 1976, however Curb stated he channeled his disappointment into writing extra music.
“And then, we wrote a track known as “God Has a Greater Plan” after he misplaced the election in ’76,” Curb shared. “He was just a little down and did not suppose he would run once more. And I stated to him, ‘God has a better plan.’ And he stated, ‘Oh, that is what Nancy says,’ after which we wrote a track known as ‘God as a Greater Plan’… And then we wrote a 3rd track, ‘We Can Begin the World Over Again,” which was all his lyrics.”
Many years later, producer Mark Joseph performed it for Lee Greenwood, who determined to repair it up and alter it to, “Let’s Start the World Over Again.”
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Greenwood recalled that memorable dialog.
“He stated, ‘Ronald Reagan and Mike Curb tried to jot down a track,’” Greenwood informed Fox News Digital. “And he despatched it to me, and he stated, ‘It actually isn’t – it was by no means accomplished.’ The concept was to make the world over, and the way naive that’s, however what an attractive thought that’s.”
“And I knew Ronald Reagan fairly properly, I knew Mike Curb fairly properly – I used to be on his label for some time, and it gave me an opportunity to redo the track,” Greenwood continued. “And I redid the track for them, they cherished it. I recorded the model, and it ought to be launched shortly on their aftermarket album from the ‘Reagan’ movie.”
Dennis Quaid in character as Ronald Reagan within the Oval Office. (Noah “Nanea” Hamilton/Rawhide Pictures)
Greenwood wrote the brand new track, however stated he saved some particular lyrics, together with the phrase “beacon of freedom.”
The “Proud to Be an American” singer informed The Tennessean that he blended Reagan’s “altruism” and Curb’s “visionary” tendencies alongside a want to reframe the track as being particularly tied to his consciousness of Reagan’s legacy and the various conversations they’d about “how a lot he believed within the United States as the best image on the planet for freedom.”
“These songs remind many generations of what (we fondly) recall of the ‘good previous days’ in American society,” Curb stated of the track. “In actually reflecting what Reagan was at his core as an entertainer and centrist-focused, accountable, good and honest human being who was straightforward to get together with.”
Asked if he was stunned by Reagan’s songwriting expertise, Curb identified that earlier than Reagan went into politics, he spent years as a Hollywood star. In the course of his profession, Reagan acted or starred in over 50 films. He was the topic of the 2024 biopic “Reagan,” with Dennis Quaid portraying the fortieth president.
Singer and songwriter Lee Greenwood. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“He was a tremendous man,” Curb stated. “Because, , once you’re sitting within the again seat with him, it was such as you had been sitting along with your next-door neighbor. Very right down to Earth. I believe all my buddies, whether or not they’re Republicans or Democrats, they sort of look again at Reagan as the great previous days.”
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“Start the World Over Again” will likely be launched quickly, whereas nation singer Sara Evans is predicted to launch her recording of “God Has a Greater Plan.”
Fox News Digital’s Hannah Lambert contributed to this report.
