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SUCH GREAT TIMES AT THIS YEAR'S 51st ANNUAL COUNTRY RADIO SEMINAR!! ALWAYS SUCH A PLEASURE TO GET TO BE WITH SO MANY POWER PLAYERS AND SUPER TALENTED RADIO PERSONALITIES, ARTISTS OLD AND NEW.

MARGARITA DE LA VEGA SINGLE "I MISS KISSING YOU" ON FOREMOST RECORDS HAS PASSED ITS 4,000,000th LISTEN AND CONTINUE TO GARNER NEW ADDS AND CONVERSIONS. RECORD HAS BEEN GOING 46 WEEKS AND STILL GROWING. 

NEW LOWER BROADWAY BAND SINGLE, HUNG UP ON THE HONKY TONKS WRITTEN PERFORMED AND PRODUCED BY CHRIS DODSON. EARLY TEST MARKETING AT RADIO INDICATES STRONG COMMERCIALITY AT RADIO WITH SEVERAL STATIONS ADDING AND SPINNING IN MEDIUM AND HEAVY ROTATION.

WE ARE EXCITED AND LOOKING FORWARD TO SPENDING TIME WITH OUR SUPER TALENTED FRIEND KACEY MUSGRAVES. WE APPRECIATE SO SO MUCH HER USING OUR SONGS!! ALSO JASON ALDEAN, KENNY CHESNEY, REBA , ALAN JACKSON and LORETA LYNN.

OUR TEAM IS EXCITED TO BE PARTICIPATING IN OUR 46TH COUNTRY RADIO SEMINAR. THREE GREAT DAYS OF HANGING WITH DOZENS OF TOP ARTISTS, RADIO PERSONALITIES and PROGRAMMERS, PROMOTERS,LABEL EXECS, MANAGERS, AND A MYRIAD OF TOP MUSIC EXECUTIVES AND YOUNG TALENT JUST BEGINNING THEIR CAREERS.

ANOTHER EXCELLENT WEEK OF RADIO PROMOTION WITH DIAMOND JIM WOOD AND THE MAKIN MUSIC RADIO PROMOTION TEAM!

FOREMOST RECORDS SINGLE "I MISS KISSING YOU" CONTINUES TO GAIN MORE AND MORE SPINS ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA AND MINNESOTA!

WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO ADD RONDA HARDCASTLE TO OUR VOCAL ARRANGEMENT TEAM. SO SO TALENTED AND GIFTED. RONDA IS DAUGHTER OF RAY EDENTON ONE OF THE CHARTER MEMBERS OF NASHVILLE STUDIO'S A - TEAM. FEATURED GUITARIST ON MORE THAN 100 # RECORDS AND MORE THAN 100 MILLION UNITS SOLD!!

SO VERY PROUD OF 40 YEAR CLIENT AND FRIEND SONNY THROCKMORTON ON GRAMMY FOR WILLIE NELSON'S "RIDE ME BACK HOME."  BRINGS BACK GREAT MEMORIES OF OTHER MAJOR HITS AND AWARD WINNERS WORKED ON WITH SONNY: :THE WAY I AM" MERLE HAGGARD// "MIDDLE AGE CRAZY "JERRY LEE LEWIS// JUDDS "WHY NOT ME"  

THINKING BACK ON 46 YEARS OF WORKING WITH GENIUS SONGWRITER - SONNY THROCKMORTON. SO PROUD OF THIS YEAR'S GRAMMY FOR "RIDE ME BACK HOME" ON WILLIE NELSON. ALSO 4 TIMES SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR. ALWAYS SUCH AN INSPIRATION TO WORK WITH AND WONDERFUL FRIEND! 

WE ARE SO VERY PROUD OF OUR CLIENT SONNY THROCKMORTON FOR GRAMMY AWARD ON HIS SONG "RIDE ME BACK HOME." RECORDED BY WILLIE NELSON AND WINNING GRAMMY FOR MALE VOCAL PERFORMANCE!

WE ARE SO EXCITED TO BEGIN 2020 WITH THE ADDITION TO OUR CATALOG OF 2 #1 RECORDS AND 3 TIMES SONGS OF THE YEAR TO OUR PUBLISHING CATALOG!!!!  MANY THANKS TO LEWIS ANDERSON, LEGACY WORKS AND ASCAP!

MARGARITA De LA VEGA CURRENT SINGLE ON FOREMOST RECORDS ENJOYS ANOTHER GREAT WEEK OF ADDS AND CONVERSIONS AT RADIO. THANK YOU DIAMOND JIM WOOD AND ALL OF MAKIN MUSIC RADIO PROMOTION TEAM!!!

WE WERE VERY BLESSED TO WORK WITH THE GREATEST COUNTRY SINGER OF GEORGE JONES. OUR SENIOR SONGPLUGGER CHRIS DODSON PITCHED THE 2 TIME CMA SONG OF THE YEAR "HE STOPPED LOVING HER TODAY" TO GEORGE WHEN CHRIS WAS THE #1 SONGPLUGGER AT TREE PUBLISHING. CHRIS KNEW GEORGE AND ALSO PITCHED HIM THE MAKIN MUSIC SONG "CHOICES" WHICH WAS GEORGE'S LAST SINGLE.

MAKIN' MUSIC IS PROUD TO HAVE BEEN DELIVERING CREATIVE EXCELLENCE AND THE VERY BEST IN CREATIVE SERVICES FOR 35 YEARS ON MUSIC ROW. OUR FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT CHRIS DODSON STARTED WORKING IN THE NASHVILLE MUSIC BUSINESS IN 1966 (54 SHORT YEARS AGO) AT STARDAY KING. WORKING WITH A TRULY ECLECTIC ROSTER OF ARTISTS: GEORGE JONES, ROGER MILLER, THE WILLIS BROTHERS, MINNIE PEARL'GUY MITCHELL  AND JAMES BROWN.