Ben Vaughn http://www.bmi.com/affiliate/rss/C784 This BMI RSS feed contains news articles, events, and musicworld articles for a specific affiliate or group. en affiliates@bmi.com Copyright 2008 2008-09-05T13:00:00-05:00 Jace Everett Signs in Triplicate with Sony, EMI and BMI http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233841 Artists, Bryant, Del, Everett, Jace, Vaughn, Ben, Wright, Mark, Musical Styles, Country Jace Everett recently signed a worldwide publishing deal with EMI Music Publishing and affiliated with BMI for performing rights.


Pictured at BMI Nashville are BMI's Del Bryant, EMI's Gary Overton, Everett, and EMI's Ben Vaughn. Not pictured, but offering his congratulations via cell phone, is Sony Records' Mark Wright. photo by Steve Lowry
]]> 2003-09-10T18:00:01-05:00 A ‘Beautiful Mess’ Made at BMI Nashville http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233177 Artists, Mills, Clay, Minor, Shane, Roe, Marty, Vaughn, Ben, Musical Styles, Country, Pop Shane Minor and Clay Mills, while co-writer and former Exile member Sonny LeMaire has scored 10 #1 hits and 17 BMI Country & Pop Awards. Also honored were publishers Shane Minor Music, Monkey C Music, Songs of API, Songs of Nashville DreamWorks and EMI Blackwood Music, Inc., and producer Mike Clute. "Beautiful Mess" is the first single from Diamond Rio's Arista Nashville album Completely, and the group is nominated for a 2002 CMA Award in the Vocal Group of the Year category.


Pictured at BMI Nashville are (front): Diamond Rio's Dana Williams, Gene Johnson and Dan Truman ; writers Sonny LeMaire and Clay Mills, Arista's Bobby Kraig; (back): Diamond Rio's Jimmy Olander, Brian Prout and Marty Roe, writer Shane Minor and BMI's Thomas Cain. photo by Kay Williams


Kerry Kurt Phillips, EMI's Ben Vaughn, BMI's Perry Howard, Shane Minor


BMI's David Preston, Tommy Lee James, Sonny LeMaire


BMI's David Preston, Sonny LeMaire, BMI's Harry Warner, Shane Minor

]]> 2002-10-17T18:00:00-05:00 48th Annual BMI Country Awards Photo Gallery http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/200105 Artists, Anderson, Bill, Bryant, Del, Green, Marv, Lonestar, McDonald, Richie, Owen, Randy, Preston, Frances, Seidel, Martie, Twain, Shania, Vaughn, Ben, Wariner, Steve, Yoakam, Dwight, Awards, BMI Awards, BMI Country Awards, Musical Styles, Country
Shania Twain and Frances Preston

The "Amazed" team: Golden Wheat Music's Ben Vaughn and Scott Hendricks, Songs of Nashville Dreamworks' James Stroud, Lonestar's Keech Rainwater, Frances Preston, Lonestar's Richie McDonald, Warner/Chappell Music's Michael Knox, writer Marv Green, Warner/Chappell Music's Dal Bobo, writers Aimee Mayo and Chris Lindsey, Lonestar's Dean Sams, Careers-BMG Music Publishing's Ron Stuve and Chris Oglesby, Songs of Nashville Dreamworks' Jim Catino, Lonestar's Michael Britt, BMI's Roger Sovine


Shania Twain and Martie Seidel

Shania shows off her BMI medallion

Billy Ray and Leticia Cyrus


Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks

Shania Twain and Del Bryant
Kenny Chesney and Steve Wariner

Shania Twain

Sherrie Austin

Mindy McCready


Shania Twain and Randy Owen

LeAnn Rimes and Kenny Chesney
Bill Anderson and Dwight Yoakam
]]> 2000-10-02T18:00:00-05:00 Ben Vaughn http://www.bmi.com/musicworld/entry/233598 Artists, Berry, Chuck, Schifrin, Lalo, Vaughn, Ben, Awards, Musical Styles, Film-TV, Musicworld, Hitmaker Ben Vaughn wears many hats: A talented television and film composer, instrumental musician, solo artist and producer, he's known for his surf-inspired guitar theme for the hit TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun.

A fan of '50s music, Vaughn got hooked on rock & roll after hearing an album by legendary guitarist Duane Eddy. Additional influences included Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly, along with composers Ennio Morriconi, Lalo Schifrin, Nino Rota, and Georges Delerue.

Ben moved to Los Angeles from New Jersey five years ago, wanting to focus on composing for film. He landed the pilot for 3rd Rock after two months, after appearing on local radio station KCRW while promoting his instrumental CD. "The President of Carsey-Werner Productions (producers of 3rd Rock) was listening to the show that morning and said 'that's the sound'," recalls Vaughn.

Vaughn finds TV music interesting because "you need to sum up in 30 seconds the musical identity of the show, and create a theme that makes people watch it for eight seasons. The 3rd Rock theme took a while because they're earthlings but something is wrong with them. That's why I made the music go slightly off key in different parts. Coming up with the musical identity was the crucial part."

Vaughn's credits include the theme and background music for That '70s Show and the theme for the new NBC animated series God, The Devil and Bob. He also scored the films Psycho Beach Party (which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival); The Independent, directed by Steve Kessler (Vegas Vacation) and starring Jerry Stiller and Janeane Garofolo; and American Nightmare, a 30-minute mystery/murder directed by Jason Roberts. Ben recently hired Jeff Sudakin as his co-composer, "to help free up more of my time, but, more work came in."

Having completed a solo tour in Europe, he is planning repeat trips in April and June. He is also recording material with members of Teenage Fanclub and Belle & Sebastian.

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