EXCLUSIVE – Lee Greenwood and Sara Evans are releasing new songs with a shock songwriter within the credit, the late President Ronald Reagan.
Reagan might have been busy operating for president of america again within the Nineteen 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 Data.
Curb mentioned 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 2 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, starting with “Together, a New Beginning.”
“And so back in the ’70s, there’s so much traffic in California that I used to travel with them,” Curb told Fox News Digital. “And on several occasions, we wrote songs together. One of them was the theme for the convention in 1980 that played. It was called, ‘Together, a New Beginning’… a number of of our recording artists got here to the conference. It was in Detroit that yr… After which that tune was sung on the conference.”
Ronald Reagan throughout his run for the presidency. (Getty Pictures)
Reagan misplaced the Republican nomination to Gerald Ford in 1976, however Curb mentioned he channeled his disappointment into writing extra music.
“And then, we wrote a song called “God Has a Larger Plan” after he lost the election in ’76,” Curb shared. “He was a bit down and did not suppose he would run once more. And I mentioned to him, ‘God has a better plan.’ And he mentioned, ‘Oh, that is what Nancy says,’ after which we wrote a tune known as ‘God as a Greater Plan’… And then we wrote a third song, ‘We Can Begin the World Over Again,” which was all his lyrics.”
Many years later, producer Mark Joseph played it for Lee Greenwood, who decided to fix it up and change it to, “Let’s Start the World Over Again.”
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Greenwood recalled that memorable dialog.
“He mentioned, ‘Ronald Reagan and Mike Curb tried to write a song,’” Greenwood told Fox News Digital. “And he despatched it to me, and he mentioned, ‘It really isn’t – it was by no means accomplished.’ The thought was to make the world over, and the way naive that’s, however what a good looking 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 tune,” Greenwood continued. “And I redid the tune for them, they cherished it. I recorded the model, and it needs to be launched shortly on their aftermarket album from the ‘Reagan’ movie.”
Dennis Quaid in character as Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office. (Noah “Nanea” Hamilton/Rawhide Pictures)
Greenwood wrote the new song, but said he kept some specific lyrics, including the phrase “beacon of freedom.”
The “Proud to Be an American” singer advised The Tennessean that he blended Reagan’s “altruism” and Curb’s “visionary” tendencies alongside a desire to reframe the song as being specifically tied to his awareness of Reagan’s legacy and the many conversations they had about “how a lot he believed in america as the best image on the planet for freedom.”
“These songs remind many generations of what (we fondly) recall of the ‘good outdated days’ in American society,” Curb said of the song. “In actually reflecting what Reagan was at his core as an entertainer and centrist-focused, accountable, good and truthful human being who was simple to get together with.”
Asked if he was surprised by Reagan’s songwriting skills, Curb pointed out that before Reagan went into politics, he spent years as a Hollywood star. In the course of his career, Reagan acted or starred in over 50 movies. He was the subject of the 2024 biopic “Reagan,” with Dennis Quaid portraying the 40th president.
Singer and songwriter Lee Greenwood. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
“He was an incredible man,” Curb said. “As a result of, you understand, while you’re sitting within the again seat with him, it was such as you have been sitting together with your next-door neighbor. Very all the way down to Earth. I feel all my associates, whether or not they’re Republicans or Democrats, they type of look again at Reagan as the nice outdated days.”
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“Begin the World Over Once more” will be released soon, while country singer Sara Evans is expected to release her recording of “God Has a Larger Plan.”
Fox Information Digital’s Hannah Lambert contributed to this report.
