Nikki Hornsby
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Nikki Hornsby is an American pop
, Americana
, country
and blues
singer-songwriter
and guitarist.
, but grew up in North Virginia. As a young teenager, Hornsby was contracted to perform as a solo singer and guitar artist. After graduating Fairfax Hall
Waynesboro, Virginia
college preparatory high school, Hornsby attended Sacred Heart
and Belmont Abbey College
s North Carolina
full time, while performing at The Sheraton Motel Lounge and other various local clubs. While majoring in Psychology & Theology she transferred to George Mason University
in Virginia
, Hornsby continued working full time, accepting contracts for solo work as a singer & Musicians Union guitarist. Some of these union contracts were at The Marriot Key Bridges Hotel Lounge in Northern Virginia
and was the first female singer-guitar player performing on the Auto Train that traveled from Lorton, VA to Sanford, FL. Nikki Hornsby also was contracted as a stand up singer with a piano player & some other local Union Musicians in many clubs in the Washington DC and the surrounding area, including Lucky Pierre's Lounge at LaFonte Plaza, the Watergate Lounge, Hogates, to name a few.
and worked full time as a club performer, where she stayed building her life and career. Many clubs in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, CA, USA like Portofino Inn, Blue Moon Saloon, Holiday Inn, Red Onion, Queensway Bay Hilton, etc.
and the USA. She recorded under her record label in the 1980s and she incorporated CJP-NHRecords in the State of CA
in 2008.
Hornsby's songs were released for airplay on commercial radio stations in the USA and Europe. In Mallorca
, Spain
, the "ACM Newsletter" as well as other print publications noted Hornsby’s song “One Way Ticket” as number one. During that same time “Hungry For Love”, Let Me Take You On A Dream” and “Hot Talkin’ Big Shot” were airplayed in Northern Europe.
In 1988, following Hornsby’s releases of “One Way Ticket”, “Hungry For Love”, “Let Me Take You On A Dream”, “Hot Talkin’ Big Shot”, and “Shoe String And A Prayer”, she was named Female Singer of the Year in Scandinavia. In 1989, “Shoe String And A Prayer” charted Top 5 in the IRC (independent) country singles, as well as in the Cash Box Top 100 USA National charts.
Hornsby was working full-time as a club performer, solo guitar duo to band leader, throughout the time of her first recorded releases. She worked at Marriott
s, Sheraton
, Hilton, Holiday Inn
Lounges throughout the USA. Nikki did her own contract work except for a few club contracts that were booked through her non-exclusive agency Castle-Hill Ent., Los Angeles, CA. Castle-Hill is Nikki's exclusive agent for all TV & Movie appearances, i.e. Fox Network's Parker Lewis TV Show "Diner75" in 1992.
which she did all the contract booking arrangements. In August 1991, Nikki Hornsby and The Rangers performed at Redondo Beach
's Summer Concert in the Park. That summer, they drew in the largest crowd and were invited back to perform again in a series of six years in "Concerts on the Pier". Hornsby always focused on the solo songwriting recording aspect of her career, although still performing as leader of her band at different venues.
". Shortly after, Hornsby had the opportunity to record as a solo singer-songwriter with Steve Duncan (Desert Rose Band), Jack Daniels (Hwy 101 Band), Jay Dee Manness (Desert Rose Band), John Jorgensen (Desert Rose Band) as well as Al Bruno who was a multi year Academy of Country Music
(ACM, Los Angeles, CA) award winning guitarist (CA Country Music News, San Jose, CA Vol 2 #20, Pg 9, April 1991).
Nikki Hornsby was nominated four different years (official ACM Ballot, composer category, 1991, 1992, 1994) for a position on the ACM's Board of Directors.
Hornsby acted as a judge for the California Country Music Awards and as a Music Industry Talent Judge for the National Colgate Talent Roundup from 1990s until 2003. Hornsby has been a consultant exclusive to the music industry since she obtained the business licence in 1989.
Dr Laura Schlessinger used Hornsby's song, "Hot Talkin' Big Shot", for several years on The Dr. Laura radio program as cue music and also for a national radio commercial advertising Ms. Schlessinger's radio show.
Hornsby traveled throughout many countries Europe
from 2005 to 2006 test marketing her "Just Wait" CD along with other original songs. This was done before CJP-NHRecords released "Just Wait" in 2006 for airplay.
In 2006, Hornsby performed the break out song from "Just Wait" called "Money's Worth" at the International Automobile Associations Annual International Event in Frankfurt
, Germany
. "Money's Worth" and other originals were broadcast European wide through Truck Radio which reported this song as number one on the Truck Radio European Charts.
That same year a commercial radio station, Radio Eurohertz in Eastern Germany
near the Czech Republic border, invited Hornsby to perform a live two hour show of some of her own original music.
In 2006, The International World Cup Soccer Games took place in Europe was telecast on CNN
TV internationally. Hornsby's song "This IS America" from the "Just Wait" CD was broadcast for the warm up game of USA vs. Italy which was held in Kaiserslautern
, Germany
. Hornsby herself was one of the VIP Hosts for that city's tourist center for the six games of the FIFA World Cup Soccer Championship held in 2006.
Hornsby appeared on TV in Spain IB3 April 2006 as well as performed live original songs including songs she wrote in other languages like "Yo Tengo Un Amour" on numerous live commercial radio telecasts in Palma
.
She did on air live interviews at many radio stations like Una Radio, Radio Balear, Ultima Hora & Punto Radio in Spain that same week in April 2006.
While in Europe, Hornsby supported the US military community for several months. The work included such activities as performing on stage, teaching music and judging in US Air Force Idol Talent Contest.
Her family association with the late Jimmy Van Heusen, Emmy and Oscar song writer for Frank Sinatra
and others, influenced Hornsby at a very young age. Documents can be found in the Library of UCLA in Los Angeles CA holding Hornsby's first recordings and industry photos among the Van Heusen collection.
Hornsby achieved commercial airplay success years prior joined the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy's) end of 2006 as a voting member. The NARAS committee placed compositions of music from Hornsby's commercial charted "Just Wait" CD on the first ballot in 2007 in 8 different categories.
A European Military Community VIP base pass in June 2006 allowed access for Nikki while she was in Europe and she volunteered to play guitar & sing at the small Daenner Kaserne Chapel weekly for the military community church services on this military base in Germany. End of 2006 she was told there was a two year waiting list and asked if she would have time to give music & vocal instructions at the community center at Vogelweh for military men & women & their families. She believed waiting that long was unacceptable and made the time with her CJP-NHRecords work to provide instructions with her very own Nikki Hornsby learning method.
2007 for appointments & networking during Grammy week, Nikki had to take leave to travel alone to Los Angeles, CA but agreed to be back in a few days. She was injured in an international airplane in-flight accident February 8, 2007. She was unable to continue to write or professionally perform her music while recovering from these injuries for the next few years.
In 2008 Nikki Hornsby as sole owner of CJP-NHRecords she filed the company into corporation status in the State of CA USA towards completion of planned prior & new music projects.
2009 CJP-NHRecords released "Just Wait Instrumentally" which is the instrumental version of the "Just Wait" CD released in 2006.
Nikki Hornsby is the granddaughter of the Columbia Recording artist Dan Hornsby
who was a A&R representative for Columbia/RCA in the early years, was a radio program director, Radio WSB DJ, a musician, a producer, a singer-songwriter, and a recording artist.
Dan Hornsby was the first recorded voice of "The Arkansas Traveler
" song. He recorded many other songs like "Oh! Susanna
", "Little Brown Jug
" "Little Lisa Jane" and "Danny Boy". Hornsby never met her grandfather, who was inducted posthumously into the Atlanta Music Hall of Fame in 1986 for his lifetime of work in the music industry.
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
, Americana
Americana (music)
Americana is an amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles...
, country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
and blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
and guitarist.
Teenage years
Nikki Hornsby was born in Long Beach, CaliforniaLong Beach, California
Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...
, but grew up in North Virginia. As a young teenager, Hornsby was contracted to perform as a solo singer and guitar artist. After graduating Fairfax Hall
Fairfax Hall
Fairfax Hall, also known as Brandon Hotel or Fairfax Hall School, is a building built in 1890 in Waynesboro, Virginia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The NRHP listing included 4 contributing buildings over a area.-External links:**...
Waynesboro, Virginia
Waynesboro, Virginia
Waynesboro, deriving its name from General Anthony Wayne, is an independent city surrounded by Augusta County in the U.S. state of Virginia. The population was 21,006 in 2010.....
college preparatory high school, Hornsby attended Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart
The Sacred Heart is one of the most famous religious devotions to Jesus' physical heart as the representation of His divine love for Humanity....
and Belmont Abbey College
Belmont Abbey College
Belmont Abbey College is a private liberal-arts Catholic college located in Belmont, North Carolina, USA west of Uptown Charlotte. It was founded in 1876 by the Benedictine monks of Belmont Abbey...
s North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
full time, while performing at The Sheraton Motel Lounge and other various local clubs. While majoring in Psychology & Theology she transferred to George Mason University
George Mason University
George Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County...
in Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
, Hornsby continued working full time, accepting contracts for solo work as a singer & Musicians Union guitarist. Some of these union contracts were at The Marriot Key Bridges Hotel Lounge in Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia consists of several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in a widespread region generally radiating southerly and westward from Washington, D.C...
and was the first female singer-guitar player performing on the Auto Train that traveled from Lorton, VA to Sanford, FL. Nikki Hornsby also was contracted as a stand up singer with a piano player & some other local Union Musicians in many clubs in the Washington DC and the surrounding area, including Lucky Pierre's Lounge at LaFonte Plaza, the Watergate Lounge, Hogates, to name a few.
1970s
In the mid 1970’s, Hornsby moved back to CaliforniaCalifornia
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
and worked full time as a club performer, where she stayed building her life and career. Many clubs in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, CA, USA like Portofino Inn, Blue Moon Saloon, Holiday Inn, Red Onion, Queensway Bay Hilton, etc.
1980s
In the late 1980s Hornsby received local California business financial backing, and was able to record her original songs under her own record label CJP-NHRecords. Quickly thereafter, Hornsby marketed her music and label throughout EuropeEurope
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and the USA. She recorded under her record label in the 1980s and she incorporated CJP-NHRecords in the State of CA
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
in 2008.
Hornsby's songs were released for airplay on commercial radio stations in the USA and Europe. In Mallorca
Mallorca
Majorca or Mallorca is an island located in the Mediterranean Sea, one of the Balearic Islands.The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Cabrera Archipelago is administratively grouped with Majorca...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, the "ACM Newsletter" as well as other print publications noted Hornsby’s song “One Way Ticket” as number one. During that same time “Hungry For Love”, Let Me Take You On A Dream” and “Hot Talkin’ Big Shot” were airplayed in Northern Europe.
In 1988, following Hornsby’s releases of “One Way Ticket”, “Hungry For Love”, “Let Me Take You On A Dream”, “Hot Talkin’ Big Shot”, and “Shoe String And A Prayer”, she was named Female Singer of the Year in Scandinavia. In 1989, “Shoe String And A Prayer” charted Top 5 in the IRC (independent) country singles, as well as in the Cash Box Top 100 USA National charts.
1990s
In the 90’s, “Shoestring and a Prayer” obtained USA radio airplay from independent and major radio stations as well as other commercial music trade publications. “Shoestring and a Prayer” was #1 the entire month of August on The Music Review Top 30 Independent Chart, NY, #3 in the Top 30 (IRC) Debut Independent Radio Chart, Nashville, TN, #11 on the Cash Box Independent Chart, and #14 Indie Bullet Mag. Top 100 Chart, Tyler, TX.Hornsby was working full-time as a club performer, solo guitar duo to band leader, throughout the time of her first recorded releases. She worked at Marriott
Marriott International
Marriott International, Inc. is a worldwide operator and franchisor of a broad portfolio of hotels and related lodging facilities. Founded by J. Willard Marriott, the company is now led by son J.W. Marriott, Jr...
s, Sheraton
Sheraton Hotels and Resorts
Sheraton Hotels and Resorts is Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide's largest and second oldest brand . Starwood's headquarters are in White Plains, New York.-Sheraton history:...
, Hilton, Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn is a brand of hotels, formally a economy motel chain, forming part of the British InterContinental Hotels Group . It is one of the world's largest hotel chains with 238,440 bedrooms and 1,301 hotels globally. There are currently 5 hotels in the pipeline...
Lounges throughout the USA. Nikki did her own contract work except for a few club contracts that were booked through her non-exclusive agency Castle-Hill Ent., Los Angeles, CA. Castle-Hill is Nikki's exclusive agent for all TV & Movie appearances, i.e. Fox Network's Parker Lewis TV Show "Diner75" in 1992.
Nikki Hornsby and The Rangers
Hornsby formed her back up band “Nikki Hornsby and The Rangers”, and together they performed in concerts and at local Southern California venues including Alpine Village in TorranceTorrance
-Places:*Torrance, Ontario, Canada*Torrance, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland*Torrance, California, United States*Torrance County, New Mexico, United States-People:Torrance is a surname, and may refer to:...
which she did all the contract booking arrangements. In August 1991, Nikki Hornsby and The Rangers performed at Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach may refer to:*Redondo Beach, California, USA*Redondo Beach, Washington, USA, a small board-walk beach in Des Moines, Washington*Redondo Beach , by Patti Smith and covered by Morrissey*Redonda Beach, a similarly named place in Portugal...
's Summer Concert in the Park. That summer, they drew in the largest crowd and were invited back to perform again in a series of six years in "Concerts on the Pier". Hornsby always focused on the solo songwriting recording aspect of her career, although still performing as leader of her band at different venues.
TV appearances
In the early 1990s, Nikki Hornsby appeared as a solo folk singer guitarist on the final show of Fox Network's "Parker Lewis Can't LoseParker Lewis Can't Lose
Parker Lewis Can't Lose is an American teen sitcom that originally aired on FOX from September 1990 to June 1993. During the last season, the series sported the simpler title Parker Lewis. The series was produced by Columbia Pictures Television and was strongly influenced by the feature film Ferris...
". Shortly after, Hornsby had the opportunity to record as a solo singer-songwriter with Steve Duncan (Desert Rose Band), Jack Daniels (Hwy 101 Band), Jay Dee Manness (Desert Rose Band), John Jorgensen (Desert Rose Band) as well as Al Bruno who was a multi year Academy of Country Music
Academy of Country Music
The Academy of Country Music was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Whereas the Country Music Association, founded in 1958, was based in Nashville, the Academy sought to promote country music in the western states. Among those involved in the...
(ACM, Los Angeles, CA) award winning guitarist (CA Country Music News, San Jose, CA Vol 2 #20, Pg 9, April 1991).
Nikki Hornsby was nominated four different years (official ACM Ballot, composer category, 1991, 1992, 1994) for a position on the ACM's Board of Directors.
Hornsby acted as a judge for the California Country Music Awards and as a Music Industry Talent Judge for the National Colgate Talent Roundup from 1990s until 2003. Hornsby has been a consultant exclusive to the music industry since she obtained the business licence in 1989.
Dr Laura Schlessinger used Hornsby's song, "Hot Talkin' Big Shot", for several years on The Dr. Laura radio program as cue music and also for a national radio commercial advertising Ms. Schlessinger's radio show.
Performance in Europe
In late 2004 Hornsby co-produced and arranged ten original songs on a CJP-NHRecords CD called "Just Wait" with Marty Rifkin, who has worked on recordings with Major recording artists within the Music Industry for many years including "Jewel" & "The Boss".Hornsby traveled throughout many countries Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
from 2005 to 2006 test marketing her "Just Wait" CD along with other original songs. This was done before CJP-NHRecords released "Just Wait" in 2006 for airplay.
In 2006, Hornsby performed the break out song from "Just Wait" called "Money's Worth" at the International Automobile Associations Annual International Event in Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. "Money's Worth" and other originals were broadcast European wide through Truck Radio which reported this song as number one on the Truck Radio European Charts.
That same year a commercial radio station, Radio Eurohertz in Eastern Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
near the Czech Republic border, invited Hornsby to perform a live two hour show of some of her own original music.
In 2006, The International World Cup Soccer Games took place in Europe was telecast on CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
TV internationally. Hornsby's song "This IS America" from the "Just Wait" CD was broadcast for the warm up game of USA vs. Italy which was held in Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern is a city in southwest Germany, located in the Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate forest . The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfurt am Main, and from Luxembourg.Kaiserslautern is home to 99,469 people...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. Hornsby herself was one of the VIP Hosts for that city's tourist center for the six games of the FIFA World Cup Soccer Championship held in 2006.
Hornsby appeared on TV in Spain IB3 April 2006 as well as performed live original songs including songs she wrote in other languages like "Yo Tengo Un Amour" on numerous live commercial radio telecasts in Palma
Palma de Mallorca
Palma is the major city and port on the island of Majorca and capital city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. The names Ciutat de Mallorca and Ciutat were used before the War of the Spanish Succession and are still used by people in Majorca. However, the official name...
.
She did on air live interviews at many radio stations like Una Radio, Radio Balear, Ultima Hora & Punto Radio in Spain that same week in April 2006.
While in Europe, Hornsby supported the US military community for several months. The work included such activities as performing on stage, teaching music and judging in US Air Force Idol Talent Contest.
Additional information
As a BMI associated songwriter, Hornsby has written over 300 songs, some of which have been used on radio, TV, & movies.Her family association with the late Jimmy Van Heusen, Emmy and Oscar song writer for Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
and others, influenced Hornsby at a very young age. Documents can be found in the Library of UCLA in Los Angeles CA holding Hornsby's first recordings and industry photos among the Van Heusen collection.
Hornsby achieved commercial airplay success years prior joined the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy's) end of 2006 as a voting member. The NARAS committee placed compositions of music from Hornsby's commercial charted "Just Wait" CD on the first ballot in 2007 in 8 different categories.
A European Military Community VIP base pass in June 2006 allowed access for Nikki while she was in Europe and she volunteered to play guitar & sing at the small Daenner Kaserne Chapel weekly for the military community church services on this military base in Germany. End of 2006 she was told there was a two year waiting list and asked if she would have time to give music & vocal instructions at the community center at Vogelweh for military men & women & their families. She believed waiting that long was unacceptable and made the time with her CJP-NHRecords work to provide instructions with her very own Nikki Hornsby learning method.
2007 for appointments & networking during Grammy week, Nikki had to take leave to travel alone to Los Angeles, CA but agreed to be back in a few days. She was injured in an international airplane in-flight accident February 8, 2007. She was unable to continue to write or professionally perform her music while recovering from these injuries for the next few years.
In 2008 Nikki Hornsby as sole owner of CJP-NHRecords she filed the company into corporation status in the State of CA USA towards completion of planned prior & new music projects.
2009 CJP-NHRecords released "Just Wait Instrumentally" which is the instrumental version of the "Just Wait" CD released in 2006.
Nikki Hornsby is the granddaughter of the Columbia Recording artist Dan Hornsby
Dan Hornsby
Isaac Daniel Hornsby was an American singer, musician, music writer, producer and arranger.-Before career:His father Joseph Todd Hornsby was a contractor and a part time Baptist minister....
who was a A&R representative for Columbia/RCA in the early years, was a radio program director, Radio WSB DJ, a musician, a producer, a singer-songwriter, and a recording artist.
Dan Hornsby was the first recorded voice of "The Arkansas Traveler
The Arkansas Traveler (song)
"The Arkansas Traveler" was the state song of Arkansas from 1949 to 1963; it has been the state historical song since 1987. The music was composed in the 19th century by Colonel Sanford C...
" song. He recorded many other songs like "Oh! Susanna
Oh! Susanna
"Oh! Susanna" is a minstrel song by Stephen Foster . It was published by W. C. Peters & Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1848. The song was introduced by a local quintette at a concert in Andrews' Eagle Ice Cream Saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 11, 1847. Foster was said to have written...
", "Little Brown Jug
Little Brown Jug (song)
"Little Brown Jug" is a song written in 1869 by Joseph Winner, originally published credited to "Eastburn" .It was originally a drinking song. It remained well known as a folk song into the early 20th century. Like many songs which make reference to alcoholic beverages, it enjoyed new popularity...
" "Little Lisa Jane" and "Danny Boy". Hornsby never met her grandfather, who was inducted posthumously into the Atlanta Music Hall of Fame in 1986 for his lifetime of work in the music industry.
Discography
- 2009 - "Just Wait Instrumentally" (NH#7119) CJP-NHRecords international commercial release of Nikki Hornsby Music. UPC# 8450201170
- 2006 - Just Wait (NH#7106) CJP-NHRecords release of ten Nikki Hornsby songs in Blues, Pop, Country, Folk-Americana, and Patriotic taken by Nikki Hornsby herself first hand towards worldwide commercial airplay success. Song Titles: Momma's Blues, Flyin Over Sweet Alambama, This Is America, Just Lovin You, Child Running Wild, Just Wait, Travel On, Money's Worth, Music Is the Only. UPC# 3447938758
- 2005 - "Previous Releases" (NH#7121)also known as "Original Releases" manufactured by CJP-NHRecords containing all ten charted songs from the 89 to 2002 made available through CDBaby, The Orchard Distributors & direct from CJP-NHRecords, Los Angeles Co., CA USA UPC# 3447938759
- 2001 - Reaching Out (NH#2007) CJP-NHRecords release of Positive Country original songs made available through CDBaby, The Orchard Distributors & direct from CJP-NHRecords, Los Angeles Co., CA USA UPC# 6991075492
- 1999 - "Cassette of Originals", direct shipped from CJP-NHRecords, Los Angeles Co., CA USA NH# 1007C
- 1996 - Nikki Hornsby'Live Performance' VHS / DVD
- 1989 - "Career Video Highlights" VHS / DVD
- 1989 - "Wake Me Up" (NH #6089)
- 1988 - "Shoestring & A Prayer" (NH #5089) Charted on commercial radio reporting stations in the USA in 1989
- 1986 - "Let Me Take You On A Dream" (NH #1088) First commercial radio Number One song at WBYO in the State of PA, USA
- 1986 - "One Way Ticket to a Heart Break" (NH #3088) First commercial radio Number One song in Palma De Mallorca Spain
- 1987 - "Hungry For Love" (NH #4088) Charted on commercial radio stations in European countries
- 1987 - "Hot Talking Big Shot" (NH #2088) Charted on commercial radio stations in many European countries & was used by Dr. Laura's USA Talk Radio show for many years into the 1990s.