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Speaker 1: visit right now with Michael Damien. He's got a brand
Speaker 1: new song out and we've had him on the program before.
Speaker 1: Excited to have you back, sir, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: play your song on the radio here in a bit.
Speaker 2: Folks.
Speaker 1: If you're listening on the podcast, you don't get to
Speaker 1: hear it. But Michael, tell me a little bit about
Speaker 1: your new song.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's I'd love to It's it's called let Me
Speaker 2: Into Your Heart and it's the first single from my
Speaker 2: new album that I've been working on for about the
Speaker 2: last past year, and We've plan to release the album,
Speaker 2: the full album in January twenty twenty six. But this
Speaker 2: is the kickoff song.
Speaker 1: And you actually had a chance to perform this on
Speaker 1: Young and the Restless, So if anybody missed that when
Speaker 1: it was on the other day, they can still catch
Speaker 1: that in streaming, right.
Speaker 2: You can always stream it on CBS Paramount plus the
Speaker 2: Young vests. You can watch it anytime. Yeah, it's to
Speaker 2: be fun. It's a different version too. This is going
Speaker 2: to be the acoustic version, but the available and both,
Speaker 2: by the way, are available now on all streaming platforms.
Speaker 1: It's the first from the new album that comes out
Speaker 1: in January. How many other songs are on that album?
Speaker 2: I would say, right now, there's ten, but I have
Speaker 2: a feeling it's going to be more like twelve. I
Speaker 2: would say, Well, see how it goes. We're still we're
Speaker 2: still working on different tracks and we'll see if they
Speaker 2: make the cut. But i'd love to, you know, get
Speaker 2: out as I'd love to put as many songs as
Speaker 2: possible on the on the full album.
Speaker 1: So how do you do that? How do you pick
Speaker 1: the song that you're going to release first? This one
Speaker 1: that you know again is on Young and the rest list.
Speaker 1: This is the first song. How did you pick this one?
Speaker 2: Well, this kind of had timed out actually with The
Speaker 2: Young and the Restless because they have this As I
Speaker 2: was mentioning this special episode, it's it's uh, you know,
Speaker 2: a bachelor bachelorette party surrounding Danny and Crickets wedding. That's
Speaker 2: going to be coming up and the show wanted to
Speaker 2: do some music and said, hey, do you have something
Speaker 2: that would work for the scene. We'd love to have
Speaker 2: you perform it. And so we went through the album
Speaker 2: or they okay, this track lyrically fits I think the
Speaker 2: best and sent it to the show and then they said, yeah,
Speaker 2: we'd love it, let's do it. And so that kind
Speaker 2: of became the first single because people are going to
Speaker 2: want you know, usually what happens when you when you
Speaker 2: get seven or eight million people seeing something, They're going
Speaker 2: to be how do I check out that song? And
Speaker 2: so we're like, okay, well we got to get that
Speaker 2: song out and available, so if people want it, they can,
Speaker 2: they can get it.
Speaker 1: I love that again. The first song is available now
Speaker 1: and the rest of the album comes out in January.
Speaker 1: Is that the best month of the year? Like, when
Speaker 1: is the best month of the year to put out
Speaker 1: an album?
Speaker 2: I think January is really good because it's the start
Speaker 2: of the year. You don't want to put anything out
Speaker 2: in December, and then the summer people are just listening
Speaker 2: and just you know, they're in a whole different space.
Speaker 2: That's why even movies really tend to only come out like,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe on fourth of July weekend, but you know,
Speaker 2: or Labor Day or Memorial days so or Christmas. So
Speaker 2: January seems to be, you know, the right month. And oh,
Speaker 2: you know, hopefully if we succeed, then I'll let you
Speaker 2: next time we do your show, I'll say, hey, okay,
Speaker 2: January is the month. Okay. If not, I'll say, well,
Speaker 2: maybe not January.
Speaker 1: I love that. And you've been doing music for a
Speaker 1: long long time. How has the music world changed since
Speaker 1: you first started in the music industry?
Speaker 2: Oh? Wow, Well, let's start with when I first started,
Speaker 2: it was vinyl and then the oh and cassettes. Actually,
Speaker 2: let me go back before that h track cartridges. How
Speaker 2: about that that was an experience in itself and your
Speaker 2: favorite song would click to the second half and so
Speaker 2: then then I was able to experience. What's really cool
Speaker 2: is that when rock on my single, you know, went
Speaker 2: to number one, that was sort of a transition from cassette.
Speaker 2: And that's when CD, you know, CDs really took off,
Speaker 2: and cassettes then slowly, you know, fell off. Because I
Speaker 2: remember when I received my Gold Records from the record company,
Speaker 2: it had the Giant and the CD, it had small CD,
Speaker 2: and it had a cassette in gold as well, so
Speaker 2: and then you know, that was sort of the end
Speaker 2: of that era, which is you know, it's a great,
Speaker 2: great time. And now the streaming platforms have started, and
Speaker 2: that's something that's incredible because you know, people can get
Speaker 2: it instantaneously, and that makes it very convenient to get
Speaker 2: music out.
Speaker 1: And the cool thing about the instant like this particular
Speaker 1: situation here, your song is out now, but the album
Speaker 1: won't even be out till January. I don't have to
Speaker 1: wait till January. I can listen to it now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can hear that, you can hear let Me
Speaker 2: into your Heart. And I've got two versions, which is
Speaker 2: really cool. I've got the full version and the acoustic version.
Speaker 2: The acoustic version is the one that I'm performing on
Speaker 2: Young and the rests.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to play it on the radio here
Speaker 1: in just a moment if you're listening on the podcast
Speaker 1: Sadly we can't play it there, but we will tell
Speaker 1: you where you can go to find it. And again,
Speaker 1: Michael Damien is our guest today. Michael, thank you again
Speaker 1: for taking the time to chat about your new song.
Speaker 2: All right, Hey, thanks so much, and rock on.
Speaker 1: Going to play that new song on the radio here
Speaker 1: in a moment. Like I said on the podcast, we
Speaker 1: can't do that on the podcast, but we do have
Speaker 1: a link to it at Facebook dot com slash Sunny Radio.
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