Brian Mansfield from Idol Chatter has confirmed what I reported this morning, that Danny Gokey’s label, RCA Nashville has decided to go with the uptempo “My Best Days Are Ahead of Me” rather than the ballad, “It’s Only”.
The song was written by Marv Green (Lonestar’s Amazed, Reba McEntire’s Consider Me Gone) and Kent Blazy (Garth Brooks’ (Ain’t Goin’ Down) ‘Til the Sun Comes Up, Chris Young’s Gettin’ You Home (The Black Dress Song).
The single will go to country radio soon. A digital single will be available Dec. 22.
Danny posted the official version of the song to his MySpace. Listen to it right here:
“…if he continues on his projected sales trajectory, will wind up being the lowest selling winner in all eight years.” — Laurel G
Should be interesting to see how it all pans out six months from now or by year’s end (2010). Pink’s been going strong due to radio-friendly singles, Gaga the same. Pink’s 1st week sales were 180,000 comparable to David A.’s. Long term radio exposure and an album with single potential kept Pink’s album viable a year later. Didn’t happen overnight. We shall see how well all the top 4 IDOLS make out, who sinks or who swims. Broad negative statements are useless. Numbers speak the loudest. I think all the IDOL fans are going to have a wake-up call as far as sales are concerned.
Good luck to Danny. He has a very good voice. My opinion of the song might be shaded a bit by IDOL. I loved Chris Young on Nashville Star. I remember trying to find a CD by him and never could. I lost interest because I’m not a huge Country fan. But there was somethiing about Chris Young, I loved. I’ve been seeing his name pop up on the internet. I’ll have to see if I can find his music.
evanjane, I don’t know Chris Young, but I remembered seeing his name on the RCA site. He is actually a labelmate of Danny’s. Here’s the site.
http://www.rcarecordslabel.com/artists/
The title of this song really bugs me. The Best Days of My Life Are Ahead of Me. If I was his deceased wife, I ‘d be haunting him for the rest of his life for because of that title.
Chris Young’s got a great new album out called The Man I Want To Be. He recently got his 1st #1 song with a song he cowrote called Gettin You Home (The Black Dress Song). The whole album is very good, especially a song called The Shoebox. He’s got such an amazing voice and he’s a pretty good writer too. I’m so happy he’s doing well. His sophomore album’s sold a little under 120k copies so far. His debut album was pretty good too, I’d recommend checking that out also.
Back on topic: Tiny Life could be a song that’s been floating around a while cowritten by Jeffrey Steele and Marv Green. I know Jeffrey Steele was performing it almost 5 years ago, I’ll have to go see if I find some of his performances online. He’s got a habit of sounding better on songs he cowrites than the people who eventually record them.
I think that it’s very likely that Sophia knew that Danny really loved her, sunny. I think that she was the kind of person who would want Danny to find joy in his life again. She will always be his first love and what she meant to him still is a driving force in his life and probably always will be.
“If I was his deceased wife, I ‘d be haunting him for the rest of his life for because of that title.”
Actually his wife was a happy, beautiful person who would want Danny to be happy, leave his tragedy behind and go on to do good things in this world- which he is!
They were/are also both people of faith; who believe the soul does not end with death, so that factors in to his optimistic outlook.
A video of Danny singing his newest song “Tiny Life” at a radio station this morning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eQIggz92Hg
Actually one of the guys who wrote Chris Young’s #1 hit Gettin You Home (the black dress song) also wrote “My Best Days Are Ahead of Me”
“My Best Days Are Ahead of Me was written by Marv Green (Lonestar’s Amazed, Reba McEntire’s Consider Me Gone) and Kent Blazy (Garth Brooks’ (Ain’t Goin’ Down) ‘Til the Sun Comes Up, Chris Young’s Gettin’ You Home (The Black Dress Song”
And to the individual who doesn’t think Danny should be happy after losing his wife, believing our best days are ahead of us is what gives us all hope.
ITA. And there’s another line in the song that refers to one or two things “I’d change if I could.” It’s a song that looks ahead, but doesn’t fail to acknowledge things from the past, good or bad.
Getting a compliment from Chris Sligh doesn’t come often:
ChrisSligh “My Best Days are Ahead of Me” is a REALLY good country song! Good songwriting, Danny’s vocals sound great. Great job, Mark Bright!
about 4 hours ago from web
Not sure if this has been posted, but a nice live performance of My Best Days song from earlier this week in San Francisco, and with Danny interacting in short interview segments with the country radio peeps. They don’t sound any too hostile to me. Had to lol when they talk about the “Lady Gaga country album”
http://www2.957thewolf.com/listen/danny-gokey-my-best-days-live
This is one of these performances where Danny live is almost identical to Danny in a studio recording. Not a lot of people can do that consistently.
This one is way better for radio play. which is what Danny will need before the full alum release.
It sounds like a hit, because it sounds like everything else on country radio.
Disclaimer: I hate country music, with some notable exceptions, but know it very well.
I hope everything works out for Danny. He has a great persona and voice.
I really think this will do well on the Country charts and radio. Danny has a great personality when he is not anxious. I hope he finds success.