SONG OF THE DAY

“Start All Over Again” by Dave Koz feat. Dana Glover (Hello Tomorrow, Concord Jazz Records, 2010). Written by Dana Glover.

WHERE I HEARD IT

This song was actually performed live during a scene in last week’s Desperate Housewives, though it was interrupted by a hair-pulling scene between Vanessa Williams and Eva Longoria-Parker. Too bad. I wanted to hear the song. At least featuring it on the show has been giving the song, the saxophonist and the vocalist some killer P.R.! Amazon even lists the album with a heavy double dose of “AS SEEN ON T.V.!”

INTERESTING FACTS (a la wikipedia)

– Dave Koz (born March 27, 1963) is an American saxophonist.

– Because they look and sound similar, Koz often draws comparisons to another well-known saxophonist, David Sanborn, and is sometimes billed as “the second coming of Sanborn.”

– He usually plays soprano or alto saxophones, but sometimes plays tenor; he used to occasionally have parts in which a baritone saxophone would have predominance.

– Dave Koz says: “My mom basically forced my sister and me to play piano from when we were toddlers. I hated piano; I was never any good at it. But I have to thank her now for making me do it, because I write most of my songs on the piano.”

– Koz was a member of Richard Marx’s band and toured with Marx throughout the late 1980’s.

– He also played in the house band of CBS’ short-lived The Pat Sajak Show, with Tom Scott as bandleader.

– In 1990, Koz decided to pursue a solo career, and began recording for Capitol Records. The move proved to be successful, and his self-titled album earned high praise from critics and fans alike.

– Saxophonic was nominated for both a Grammy Award and an NAACP Image Award.

– Dave co-hosted of The Dave Koz Morning Show With Pat Prescott on 94.7 The Wave, a smooth jazz station in Los Angeles for six years. He decided to leave the show in January 2007 and was replaced by Brian McKnight.

– In 2002, Koz started a record label, Rendezvous Entertainment, with Frank Cody and Hyman Katz. One of the first albums from that label was Golden Slumbers: A Father’s Lullaby, which came at the time his brother Jeff became a father for the first time.

– In an April 2004 interview with The Advocate, Koz came out publicly as a gay man.

– Later the same year, he was named by People magazine as one of their “50 Hottest Bachelors” in their June issue.

– In 2006, he played on all the songs for the follow-up tribute album, released this time on his own Rendezvous Entertainment label, called Forever, For Always, For Luther Volume II.

– In 2006, Koz was selected to host a syndicated afternoon show for Broadcast Architecture’s new Smooth Jazz Network. The show, based in Los Angeles, is broadcast on other Smooth Jazz stations across the country.

– Koz was also the bandleader on the The Emeril Lagasse Show.

– On September 22, 2009, Koz received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

– Dana Glover (born October 14, 1974 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina) is an American pop singer andsongwriter known for performing film songs.

– At 16 she went to Manhattan for a modeling career. At age 18 she decided to become a musician; first in Nashville where she became a piano player and then in Los Angeles.

– In 2001 she wrote the lyrics to the song “Plan on Forever” for the movie The Wedding Planner, and in the same year she received the opportunity to perform her song “It Is You (I Have Loved)”, the love theme from the film Shrek.

– Her debut album, Testimony, reached #43 on the UK Album Charts.

– On this album she had two singles: “Thinking Over”, which reached #17 on the AC charts and #22 on the Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks charts, and “Rain”, which reached #30 on the Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks charts.

– In 2004, “Thinking Over” was used for the Garry Marshall film Raising Helen.

– Other film songs are “The Way (Radio Song)” from the Sandra Bullock/Hugh Grant comedy Two Weeks Notice, “Maybe” from Laws of Attraction and ”The Truth Lies” from the Franka Potente film Blueprint.

– In 2010, Dana appeared as a featured vocalist on one track on saxophonist Dave Koz album Hello Tomorrow, entitled “Start All Over Again” which she wrote. They performed the song on the October 24, 2010 episode of ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” interwoven into the storyline with Dana starring as housewife Emma Graham.

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