![]() “Dance With My Father” earned Vandross and Marx a Grammy for Song of the Year and Vandross another for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 2004, just a year before the artist’s own untimely death at the age of 54. ‘Dance With My Father’ was a personal song he was sharing with me.” In fact, Luther had helped me get through the rough time I had after my father died. Richard Noel Marx is an American adult contemporary and pop rock singer-songwriter. But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997. Richard Marx, Soundtrack: Tequila Sunrise. “Part of the reason was because we were friends and our history of writing together. “There were a couple of reasons why Luther asked me to co-write this song with him,” said Marx. The song and album are dedicated to Vandross’ late father, Luther Vandross, Sr., who died following complications of diabetes when the singer was only 8 and would dance with him and his mother. Marx and Vandross had already collaborated on several songs, first working on “Every Year, Every Christmas,” off Vandross’ 1995 holiday album, This is Christmas then again on the track “Isn’t There Someone,” for his 1998 release I Know. Co-written with Richard Marx, Luther Vandross’ homage to his late father “Dance with My Father” is the title track off the R&B singer’s 2003 album. ![]() Written by Richard Marx and Luther Vandross “Dance With My Father,” Luther Vandross (2003) In addition to co-writing the song with Rogers, Marx served as a session musician and backing vocalist for the track, which was produced by David Foster and Rogers. 1 hit for the country singer as a solo artist, after parting ways with the band First Edition in 1976. Released as the second single off Kenny Rogers’ 16th album What About Me? “Crazy” marked the 11th No. Here are 20 songs Marx wrote or co-wrote-and sometimes produced-for other artists since 1984. Marx added, “Once in a while, you break out of that and that’s when I think the magic happens, when you kind of break your own rules or you just don’t pay attention to your own rules and that’s kind of hard to do when you’ve been doing it as long as I have.” … But along the way, when you’ve been doing it for decades, you do fall into, not routines, but there’s a way that I write songs, generally. ![]() … So I’m never going to be somebody who is going to sit here and bullshit you and tell you that I think I know what a hit song is. Every song that’s become a hit, all of those songs that I wrote were just songs that I liked. “I’ve never written a song that I thought was a hit at the time. “I think when you’ve been writing songs as long as I have, you do find yourself convincing yourself that you have a formula, not to write hit songs,” said Marx.
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