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Title: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: MorseKode on February 21, 2022, 04:11:50 PM
Hello,

You may or may not have heard of me (probably not), but I collaborated quite a lot, about 10-15 years ago. I wrote an album called Implicit Lyrics and Curtis sung on every track. I re-released it last year.

Curtis has some more music and his family has asked me to get it out there on Spotify, iTunes and so on, but I'm aware that he co-wrote many of the songs and I'd like to get permission from the authors before I upload all the tracks.

Here is his playlist on SoundClick - did you play on any of these songs, and/or write or co-write them?

https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandID=183233&content=songs

Also if you have high-quality WAVs that I can use (instead of my mp3s) of the finished songs it would be most appreciated if you could send them over!

Thanks very much,
David
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: napoleonboot on February 22, 2022, 08:04:48 AM
you could search for them on here an identify credits that way, especially if they are in the finished forum
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Davidinoz on February 24, 2022, 03:21:14 AM
I played bass on a couple of these. I may have wav. files for them.
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: MorseKode on February 24, 2022, 04:10:26 AM
you could search for them on here an identify credits that way, especially if they are in the finished forum

It's a good shout, but some of them are from the Collaboration Central days, and no amount of searching turns up anything.  :P
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: MorseKode on March 06, 2022, 05:33:11 PM
I played bass on a couple of these. I may have wav. files for them.

This would be very helpful! Please let me know if you can dig something up.  8)
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Davidinoz on March 06, 2022, 11:17:24 PM
They should be on a backup disc - I'll dig them out.
I also have one of mine that Curtis wrote the lyrics and melody for and provided vocals.
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: MorseKode on March 09, 2022, 05:13:13 PM
Ok I have had some luck tracking down the authors by searching the forums!

There are 3 songs I still can't find, can anyone help with these? "Hands of Time", "I Won't Give In", and "The Rain".

All can be heard on Curtis's SoundClick: https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandID=183233&content=songs

I can hear my own playing on "I Won't Give In"  ;D But I don't remember who wrote it at all!

Here are the rest of the credits for songs that Curtis's son has suggested we put on a CD. If you're the author or co-author, and see this post, I would massively appreciate a thumbs-up to release it on iTunes/Spotify/etc. The aim is not to make money, just get the music out there!

Thanks!
David

CREDITS SO FAR:

Album Thread: https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=2900.msg40367#msg40367

Credits Thread: https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=12409.msg231992;topicseen#new

I'm Not the One - Studioplayer/Dave https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=1731.0
Lyrics, Vocals, backing vocals, mix and master by Curtis Downey
All guitars, bass, piano, and music by Dave Patterson(Studioplayer)
Drums by Robert(OnlineDrumtracks)

So Long - Brina/Curtis https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=1562.msg19488#msg19488
All piano's, strings and original arrangement by Brina
Vocals, mix, master, and puppeteer....Curtis(Me)
Bass guitar by Hazz
Lead guitar by Sergio
Drums by Steve Gardner
Additional guitar by Guitrmn

Travel On - Curtis/Dave https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=1767.msg22607#msg22607
Lyrics, Vocals,  Mix and Master - Curtis Downey
All guitars and bass - Dave Patterson(StudioPlayer)
Drums - Ken Grover(Groverk)
Backing Vocals - Brina Doughty

No More Running Scared - Curtis & Studioplayer/Dave https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=631.0
Lyrics by Curtis Downey and C.R. Downey
All Vocals, Backing Vocals, Mix, and Master by Curtis Downey
All Guitars and music by Dave Patterson
Drums by Ken Grover

Never Gone - Curtis/Dave https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=241.msg2579#msg2579
Lyrics/Vocals/Mix - Curtis
Guitars and Music - Dave
Hammond - Billy(The Funge)
Drums - Fred Jam
Backing Vocals - Brina
Bass - Davidinoz

Dusty Road - Curtis https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=154.msg1451#msg1451
Chords, and rythm guitar - Dave(Morsekode)
Lead guitar and additional guitars - Ray(Sharpola)
Drums - Mike(digitaldrummer)
Bass - Preston(Basic Soul)
Organ - Steve(B3_Guy)
Backing Vocals - Brina
Lyrics, Melody, Arrangement, Production, Vocals, and Backing Vocals - Curtis(Me ;))
Special thanks to the peanut gallary for aditional advice and encouragement

Mama Do You Remember - Curtis https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=98.msg702#msg702
Lyrics - Curtis Downey and C.R. Downey(my mother)
Male vocal, chords, structure and Production - Curtis
Female Vocal - Brina
Acoustic guitar - Burnin Sven
Drums - Groverk
Steel guitar - Tom D.
Bass - Davidinoz
Strings - The funge

I Can See You (In My Dreams) -

Nothing Left for Me - Curtis/? https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=329.msg3601#msg3601
Lyrics and Vocals - Curtis Downey
Original Music, synths and drum programming - (LMK)
Guitar 1 and 2- (Zesty)
Guitar 3 - Rob Wood
Bass - (Loki)
Lead Guitar Solo - Steve McAndrew (Pleasuredome)
Backing Vocals - (SonGuku), and Steve(Pleasuredome)

Hands of Time -

I Won't Give In - Music: Ed Seitz Lyrics: Deb Seitz https://www.soundclick.com/music/songInfo.cfm?songID=3126331
Original lyrics - Deb Seitz(rewritten by Curtis Downey).
Song originator - Edmon.
Dave(MorseKode) - All guitars and bass.
Ken(Groverk) - Drums.
Juhani(Spacecube) - B4 organ.
Vocals and Production - Curtis Downey

Rodeo -

My Pain -

The Rain -

Dream Raven - Lyrics by Curtis Downey, Music by Rob Wood

Left Alone - Curtis https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=968.msg10924#msg10924
Curtis Downey - Author, lead vocals, backing vocals, co-producer
Paulo Gomes - Bass, piano, hammond organ, Synth, orchestra, arrangement, co-producer, co-writer music.
Mark Magil - Lead guitar
Jason Didner - Backing vocals
Fred E. Jam - Drums, backing vocals, mix, producer

Faded - Curtis/Dave
Curtis Downey - Vocals, Lyrics, Arrangement & Mixing
David Patterson - Original Music, Arrangement & Guitars
Brina - Backing Vocals
Davidinoz - Bass
Jaaman - Keys
TomD - Steel Guitar
Digitaldrummer - Drums
CosmicDolphin - Final Master
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Davidinoz on March 09, 2022, 05:55:56 PM
From the list above I played bass on Mama and Never Gone. You have all the other credits for those. I do have a wav. file for Never gone (attached here) but not for Mama.
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Davidinoz on March 09, 2022, 06:06:16 PM
This is another one with Curtis called Daddy's Little Boy. Unfortunately I have no idea who the credits go to apart from Curtis singing and me playing bass. I think this was done at one of Fred Jam's earlier sites around 2005. mp3 attached (it's all I have).
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Davidinoz on March 09, 2022, 06:23:21 PM
Another song Curtis co-wrote - Faded can be found here https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=2835.0 (https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=2835.0)
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Davidinoz on March 09, 2022, 06:28:13 PM
All Over Again - another one from Fred Jam's earlier site (I think). Unfortunately again I can only vouch for me on bass and Curtis singing. wav. file attached.
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Davidinoz on March 09, 2022, 06:33:10 PM
Somebody New - my second attempt at songwriting (co wrote with Curtis) from somewhere around 2005.

Credits
Curtis Downey - Author lyrics and melody, vocals and all round good guy
Davidinoz (David Timson) - Author music, bass, rhythm guitar, hammond, mix and master, backing vocals
Studioplayer (Dave Patterson) Guitar licks and solo and owner of a great sounding tele
Digitaldrummer (Mike Kosacek) Drums
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Davidinoz on March 09, 2022, 07:27:35 PM
I forgot to add - any of my work (playing,  writing, mixing whatever) is free for you to use for this project. Curtis was a great talent and always a pleasure to work with. I wish I could help more but my backups are not as complete as they should be and old age has stolen my memory. I do have a much better studio set up than I did in those days so if you need any help with mixing or cleaning up tracks give me a yell.
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: j on March 10, 2022, 08:52:54 AM
Another song Curtis co-wrote - Faded can be found here https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=2835.0 (https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=2835.0)

Were you going to have a go at a new mix, David? If so, I have a better piano for you.

j~
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Davidinoz on March 10, 2022, 11:04:37 AM
I haven't found the separate tracks for any of these yet. Not even sure I ever had them for faded so remixes are probably unlikely.

Another song Curtis co-wrote - Faded can be found here https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=2835.0 (https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=2835.0)

Were you going to have a go at a new mix, David? If so, I have a better piano for you.

j~
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Studioplayer on March 10, 2022, 03:18:03 PM
I did quite a few songs with Curtis. I have all the files and credits. Let's get them up. I sure do miss him.   :'(
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Studioplayer on March 16, 2022, 05:43:01 PM
Another song Curtis co-wrote - Faded can be found here https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=2835.0 (https://www.musicianscollaboration.com/forum/index.php?topic=2835.0)

Were you going to have a go at a new mix, David? If so, I have a better piano for you.

j~

I have all the files for 'Faded' Jay but I doubt I'd want to remix it at this point. It would be a real bitch to do. Lots of files and lots of mastering by Mark (Cosmic Dolphin). It's one of the top songs I 've done with Curtis in  IMO. It's perfect.  :)

Dave
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Studioplayer on March 18, 2022, 01:29:48 PM
8 songs and credits on my onedrive.   https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhkK0QfCU7cZgRNWY5_zfKkbmSod?e=TP8aAE
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: MorseKode on March 18, 2022, 02:48:18 PM
Amazing! Thanks Dave!

I've made some progress with the authors, just chasing down a few loose ends now. Does anyone know who "Edmon" was from the artistcollaboration.com days? I don't think he re-registered here. He co-wrote "I Won't Give In", by the looks of it.
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Studioplayer on March 23, 2022, 03:38:17 AM
Amazing! Thanks Dave!

I've made some progress with the authors, just chasing down a few loose ends now. Does anyone know who "Edmon" was from the artistcollaboration.com days? I don't think he re-registered here. He co-wrote "I Won't Give In", by the looks of it.

Maybe Nick would know?
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: MorseKode on March 23, 2022, 07:50:32 PM
I actually found Edmon after some detective work, and he gave the thumbs up!

So that just leaves one author, LMK. He’s registered here but haven’t got a reply to DMs. Does anyone know him, have an email address or other contact?
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: MorseKode on April 18, 2022, 11:59:32 AM
There are just a few guys I need to track down now to get permission! Does anyone know about, and/or have a way of contacting these fine people?

LMK
PaulD
Chad/Clark_Griswold
Guycanwrite
Irene Playle

Thanks!
David
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: robwood on April 21, 2022, 09:58:06 AM
David, Here's a wav for Dream Raven originally mastered by Nick.  Haven't heard it in awhile, sweet! :)

Rob
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: MorseKode on April 21, 2022, 02:16:37 PM
Thank you Rob! That song deserves so much more than 128kbps! :D
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: MorseKode on May 03, 2022, 06:07:49 AM
Ok, thanks for all your help everyone! It's out!

https://open.spotify.com/album/7lj7qcitvxEAILr2mrpOD5?si=C0PhK-bBQHGAJiVmu0iq0w

https://music.apple.com/us/album/dusty-road/1620971250
Title: Re: Please help! Credits for Curtis Downey's Music
Post by: Studioplayer on May 20, 2022, 06:05:31 AM
Thanks for doing this Dave. Keeping Curtis alive with his great music. Miss that guy.  8)