Randy Sharp
[Randy Sharp] is a three time Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter, guitarist and producer. He had major success in many genres of music with his greatest successes in Pop, Country, and Alternative. He has composed for film and television as well. Over the past 40 years Sharp has been signed as an artist to major record labels as well as producing in the Pop, Alternative and Country genres. His songs have been recorded by artists including Linda Ronstadt, Art Garfunkel, Blood Sweat and Tears, Delaney Bramlett, Glen Campbell, Exile (American band), Ann Murray, Restless Heart, Reba McEntire, Alabama, The Oak Ridge Boys, Holly Dunn, Tanya Tucker, Edgar Winter, Clay Walker, Kathy Mattea, The Dixie Chicks"Home" Kenny Rodgers "Dream of The San Joaquin" and Emmylou Harris' "The Connection" as well as his daughter Maia Sharp to name just a few.
As a writer Randy Sharp's publishing associations have been Gee Sharp Music/Albert Hall Music in the 1970's, Warner Brothers Music Publishing in the 80's and his own With Any Luck Music which he opened in 1988 which transitioned into Wind Swept Pacificin 1996. As an artist he has been signed to major label contracts including RCA Equinox Records, Mercury Records and Nautilus Records. He was given the honor of recording a direct to disc project. That project included Pop/Rock legendary bands such as Toto, Ambrosia and The Glen Campbell Band backing him for the live studio limited release recording, which he produced with Doug Gilmore.
In the 1990's Randy Sharp contributed to the Speechless movie soundtrack as well as Follow That Bird soundtrack on the 1980's for which he won a Grammy Award. His production credits include Exile's Still Standing and Justice albums for Arista Records, Maia Sharp's self titled debut album Maia Sharp as well as her follow up album Hardly Glamour as well as Sharp's own duet album for Mercury Records with Karen Brooks entitled The Search Goes On.
Randy Sharp is a creator of works with depth, range and purposeful conscience. Randy Sharp has covered many genres with skill, creativity, intelligence, humor and a masterful knowledge of language which few posses. Sharp approaches his life and art with the same uniqueness. Currently he has repurchased some of the With Any Luck Music/Randy Sharp Music Publishing titles and is well on his way to building With Any Luck Music Publishing and Randy Sharp Music Publishing into a name of the future boasting of more than 700 songs to their credit.
Most recently he has written and produced in his Los Angeles Kaweah Recording Studios and for his With Any Luck Music Publishing/Randy Sharp Music Publishing. Randy and Dave Kinnoin have just released a children's album entitled "Calling All The Elephants" which has received wonderful reviews from (name and link here). Randy Sharp is also the father of singer-songwriter Maia Sharp.
Randy Sharp
Discography
- The Best In Me (children’s CD), TMK Records (2013)
- “Enormously Inconvenient”
- “It’s Good To Love Somebody”
- “I’ll Be Me”
- Dreams of the San Joaquin, Blix Street Records (2012)
- “Burn Day”
- “A Home”
- “New Way Out”
- “Ridin’ On The Night Train”
- “Or So The Heart Remembers”
- “Old Time Sake”
- “Dreams Of The San Joaquin”
- Vagabond, Dwight Rabbit Records (2012)
- “No You In We”
- “Mr. Sorry”
- “Give It Back”
- “Before I Fall”
- Change The Ending, Blix Street Records (2012)
- “I See Cecilia”
- Be, Blix Street Records (2012)
- “To Know Your Love Again”
- Baby, Blix Street Records (2012)
- “How’s That Working For Ya’?”
- The Best That I Can Do, Flying P Records (2012)
- “I Dare You”
- Character Counts Strikes A Chord, Song Wizard Records (2010)
- “No Matter How Small”
- “Any Other Kid”
- Teaspoon At A Time (children’s CD), Song Wizard Records (2009)
- “Any Other Kid”
- “No Matter How Small”
- Another Season, Blix Street Records (2008)
- Heartaches and Highways, Warner Bros. Records (2008)
- “The Connection”
- A New Kind Of Blues , Golden Magnolia Records (2007)
- “A New Kind Of Blues”
- “Ain’t Got Nothin’ To Lose”
- “P.O. Box 32789”
- “I Got The Time”
- CD Solo CD Baby , Dwight Rabbit Records (2006)
- “Surprise, Surprise”
- “I Guess I Showed Them”
- ' In These Times, Warner Bros. Records (2005)
- “Some Walls”
- ' The Joker , Dwight Rabbit Records (2005)
- “Sleeping Song”
- Fine Upstanding Citizen, Koch Records C2005 (2005)
- “A Home”
- The Nashville Underground Sampler Series III , Underground Records (2004)
- “The Kindest Thing”
- “Save Me A Place In Your Heart”
- Home, Sonny Music Entertainment Inc. (2002)
- “A Home”
- The Connection, Blix Street Records (2002)
- “Some Walls”
- “Good Thing”
- “If You Have To Ask”
- “The Connection”
- “Dreams Of The San Joaquin”
- “Queen Of Indecision”
- “Or So The Heart Remembers”
- “Pretending”
- “New Way Out”
- “Burn Day”
- “The Search Goes On”
- Maura O’Connell, Warner Bros. Records Inc. (2002)
- “Some Walls”
- Ronnie Cox, Elkhorn Music C 2002 (2002)
- “The Connection”
- Maia Sharp, Concord Records (2002)
- “Crimes Of The Witness”
- “Ghosts”
- Prove That By Me, Universal Careers (2002)
- “Guns of Love”
- Hope Chest, EPIC (2002)
- “Bad Habits”
- Delaney Bramlett, Magnolia Gold Records (2002)
- “Free”
- Lisa Bowen, Curb Records (2002)
- “For Me To Know”
- The Bullock Sisters, Curb Records (2002)
- “Prove You Wrong”
- Greg Long , Myrrh Records (2002)
- “Prove That By Me”
- Chris Farren , Macola Records (2002)
- “Didn’t Have To Say It Out Loud”
- We Ran, Vagabond Records (2002)
- “Dreams Of The San Joaquin”
- I Wont Stand In Line, EP Blix Street Records (2002)
- “The Connection”
- Kennedy Rose, RCA Records (2002)
- “Some Walls”
- Good Night, Warner Bros. Records (2001)
- “Don’t Make Me Say It”
- “Morpheus”
- “Louise, Louise”
- “Old Ones”
- “Guns Of Love”
- The Innocent Years, Narada Records (2000)
- “Prove That By Me”
- Idiot Savant , Elk Horn Music (2000)
- “Dreams of the San Joaquin”
- Acoustic Electricity, Syzygy Records (2000)
- “Dreams of the San Joaquin”
- Clay Walker, Giant Records (1998)
- “Then What”
- Hardly Glamour, Ark 21 Records (1997)
- “Only Way of Knowing”
- “Good Thing”
- “Solitaire”
- “This Could Be Love”
- Edgar Winter, Magnolia Gold Records (1997)
- “Sanctuary”
- Born That Way, Curb Records C 1995 (1995)
- “She Can’t Love You”
- Give What It Takes, Curb Records (1995)
- “Love Will Have Its Way”
- No Regrets, Sony (1995)
- “I Didn’t Mean To Love You”
- Brad Hawkins, Curb Records (1995)
- “Some How She Knows”
- Heart Of Steel Greatest Hits, Intersound Records (1995)
- “L-O-V-E- Spells Trouble”
- ', Sparrow Records (1995)
- “When I Find You”
- No Album Listed, Arista (1995)
- “Kiss By Kiss”
- Soundtrack ”Speachless”, No Label listed (1995)
- “The Loneliest”
- Radio Shack Promotion, Radio Shack (1995)
- “The Loneliest”
- The Moffatts, EMI Records Germany (1995)
- “Guns Of Love”
- Fire To Fire, Capitol Records (1995)
- “Nobody Dies From A Broken Heart”
- Any Way The Wind Blows, [[Warner Bros. Records ]] (1995)
- “Some Walls”
- Walk The Line, IRS Records (1995)
- “Some Walls”
- You’ve Got Me Now, unknown (1995)
- “The Only Explanation “
- Read My Mind, MCA Records (1995)
- “Everything That You Want”
- The Cheap Seats, RCA Records (1993)
- “The Cheap Seats”
- Only What I Feel, MCA Records (1993)
- “You Will”
- Best Of The Oak Ridge Boys, RCA Records (1992)
- “The Cheap Seats”
- The Search Goes On, Mercury Records/Polydor (1992)
- “The Search Goes On”
- “If You Don’t Really Love Her”
- “You Can Always Count On Me”
- “That’s Another Story”
- “It’s Not All Over”
- “All I Need”
- The Bansons, Warner Bros. Records (1992)
- “The Only Explanation”
- Getting It Done, Warner Bros. Records (1992)
- “A Simple I Love You”
- Next To You, Asylum Records Inc. (1992)
- “Unconditional Love”
- Libby Hurley, CBS Records (1992)
- “Roots And Wings”
- “Don’t Tell Me Where Your Heart Has Been”
- “Time And Distance”
- Justice, Arista Records(1991)
- “Even Now”
- “One Too Many Times”
- “One More Reason”
- “Dreams Die Hard”
- “What You See”
- “For You For Me Forever”
- “Shot In The Dark”
- “Somebody’s Telling Her Lies”
- “All In Good Time”
- “If There’s Any Justice”
- A Little Common Kindness, MCA Records(1991)
- “A Little Common Kindness”
- A Simple I Love You, Asylum Records Inc.(1991)
- “ Simple I Love You”
- A Real Life Story, Warner Bros. Records(1991)
- “Guns of Love”
- What Do I Do With Me, Capitol Records(1991)
- “Time And Distance”
- “Everything That You Want”
- Yes I Do, Capitol Records(1991)
- “Roots And Wings”
- One Honest Tear, Warner Bros. Records(1991)
- “One Honest Tear”
- You Will, Capitol Records(1990)
- “You Will”
- “New Way Out”
- “The Final Say”
- Texas Tornados, Bismeaux Records(1990)
- “If That’s What You’re Thinking”
- Brand New Dance, Warner Bros. Records(1990)
- “Easy For You To Say”
- Still Standing, Arista(1989)
- “Yet”
- “Nobody’s Talking”
- “Bad Blood”
- “Still Standing”
- “There You Go”
- “Don’t Hang Up”
- “Show Me”
- “For You”
- No Album Listed, VP Music Group Inc.(1989)
- “A Tender Lie”
- In My Eyes, Capitol Records(1988)
- “New Way Out”
- I Will Return, RCA Records(1988)
- “Riding on the Night Train”
- Nobody’s Angel, CBS Records(1988)
- “Nobody’s Angel”
- Big Dreams In A Small Town, RCA Records(1988)
- “A Tender Lie”
- Follow That Bird (Soundtrack), Warner Bros. Records(1987)
- “I’m So Blue”
- Three Pieces, Capitol Records(1987)
- “The Week End”
- Heart Beat, RCA Records(1987)
- “New Way Out”
- Strange Behavior, Mercury/Polydor Records(1986)
- “Staring Down The Demons”
- Wheels, RCA Records(1986)
- “Why Does It Have To Be”
- Restless Heart, RCA Records(1985)
- “She’s Coming Home”
- Too Bad For Love, Warner Bros. Records(1985)
- “Too Bad For Love”
- “Nobody’s Angel”
- Hearts On Fire, Warner Bros. Records(1984)
- “A Little Common Kindness”
- “Give It Up”
- “A Simple I Love You”
- Heart Over Mind, Capitol Records(1984)
- “Once You’ve Had It”
- Come To Me, Capitol Records(1983)
- “Come To Me”
- “A Little Good News”
- Another Breath, EPIC Records(1983)
- “Come To Me”
- New Way Out, Warner Bros. Records(1982)
- “New Way Out”
- “Walk On”
- “If That’s What You’re Thinking”
- It’s Not All Over, Warner Bros. Records(1982)
- “It’s Not All Over”
- “Come Back To Me”
- “Change Of Heart”
- Where The Sun Don’t Shine, RCA Records(1982)
- “Take That Girl Away”
- One More Last Chance, RCA Records(1981)
- “It’s Not All Over”
- “Just About Love”
- “Take Your Love Away”
- “Could It Be Love”
- Best Of Jennifer Warens, Warner Bros. Records(1981)
- “Could It Be Love”
- Single Side B of #1 Hit, Warner Bros. Records(1981)
- “I Just Want To Love You”
- Shriners Convention, RCA Records(1980)
- “Rita’s Letter”
- If You Believe, RCA Records(1980)
- “Could It Be Love”
- That Girl, Warner Bros. Records(1979)
- “Take Your Love Away”
- Single, RCA Records(1979)
- “First In Line”
- “Making A Come Back”
- First In Line, Nautilus Direct To Disc Album(1979)
- “Banjo Man”
- “The Womanizer”
- “Begin Without Me”
- “For Old Time Sake”
- “You Were The Light”
- “Who You Gonna Blame It On”
- “First In Line”
- Sweet Love Feeling, Capitol Records(1978)
- “Banjo Man”
- Christy Lane, LS Records(1978)
- “Take Your Love Away”
- La Costa, Capitol Records(1977)
- “Take Your Love Away”
- Reba McEntire, Mercury/Poly Gram Records(1977)
- “Take Your Love Away”
- I Want To Dance, Unknown(1977)
- “Cook It Up”
- Brand New Day, Columbia Records(1977)
- “The Womanizer”
- Class Reunion, Magnolia Gold Records(1977)
- “For Old Time Sake”
- “Who You Gonna Blame It On”
- “You Were The Light”
- Just About Love, RCA Equinox Records(1975)
- “Do We Really Have To Dance”
- “Rambling Song”
- “Travelin”
- “A Young Girl”
- “We Don’t Worry Bout Tomorrow”
- “Let Your Business Go”
- “You Can Count On Me”
- Sandy Burnette, Unknown(1973)
- “Take You Love Away”
- Mobius Strip, Magnolia Gold Records(1973)
- “Young Girl”
- First In Line, Self-Produced(1973)
- “First In Line”
- “Helpless”
- “Mamma Get Ready”
- “Keep Your Distance”
- “Do We Really Have To Dance”
- “Rosalinda”
- “Just About Love”
- “Novocain Lover”
- “Blue Berry Pie Stains”
- “A Night With A Friend”
- “Country Song”
- First in Line, Nautilus Records (1976) (a direct to disc recording)