Stephen Arnold Music Goes To Washington
Good music is a bipartisian issue, at least that’s what our intrepid sales force of Michael Finnegan and Noelle Alanis found out during a recent trip to Nation’s capital. Check out the pictures…
Read More »Lou Dobbs Tonight Bows With Rockin’ Vault Track
TV commentator Lou Dobbs returned to the airwaves last night on the FOX Business Network (FBN) with his new show “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” Setting the tone was the show’s opening theme that comes from The Vault, the elite library of music maintained by Stephen Arnold Music . We’ve worked with FBN in the past on a number of sonic branding projects. This time they selected a hard-edged guitar-driven track recorded […]
Read More »Thinking ’bout Baseball
While it may still feel like winter in much of the country, in case you didn’t know it, baseball’s spring training is right now in full swing. Helping catch baseball fever among American League champion Texas Rangers‘ fans is a brand new promo for our client KTVT CBS 11/TXA 21, featuring a track from The Vault called “Believe,” written by multiple Grammy nominated songwriter Greg Barnhill and produced by Stephen […]
Read More »‘It’s All About Early’: Hard News
Thanks to the success of the first ”It’s All About Early” — our fully-produced and edited audio + video promo package created for local morning newscasts — we’ve put together a brand new one. This time with a hard news edge. Shot in HD by our friends at Hothaus Creative, “It’s All About Early: Hard News” provides local TV stations with an affordable, market-exclusive promo package that can hit the […]
Read More »Remembering 8-Tracks
Earlier this week I came across this series of stories on NPR that looks back fondly on lost audio formats, with the first story on the history of 8-Track tapes. A quick survey of the Stephen Arnold Music staff found that most had never seen an actual 8-Track let alone owned any. Except of course Stephen himself, who not only owned them, he still has an actual working 8-Track recorder […]
Read More »More Musical Birdies For Golf Channel
Our good friends at Golf Channel came to us recently to capture the musical identity of two of their new shows. “Morning Drive” is a brash new entry into the world of morning sports talk. “Pipe Dream” is a 10-part reality series chronicling 53-year old pro golfer Mark Burk’s journey to restore his golf career. Check ’em out below:
Read More »Our Favorite Super Bowl Ads + Staff Predictions
It’s Super Bowl week, AND the Super Bowl is being played here in Dallas, so we here at Stephen Arnold Music are twice as excited (at least most of us are). And even if the game’s a blowout, the ads always deliver. We asked some of our crew here for their favor Super Bowl ad and a game prediction. Here’s what we came up with. Noelle Alanis: Prediction: “The Colts […]
Read More »My First Guitar
We all remember our first…guitar that is. This is mine — an original 1960s Sears Silvertone, which later became Danelectro, and yes that’s the original case with a small amp built right into it. They don’t make ’em like that anymore. And check out that price from an original Sears catalog — $67.95! Talk about money well spent.
Read More »“It’s All About Early”
We had this idea. With so many stations dealing with reduced staffs and working within increasingly tight budgets, we wondered wouldn’t it be cool if we could create a fresh, no-hassle on-air look for the morning news — an increasingly valuable part of every station’s daily schedule. Thus “It’s All About Early’ was born. This is a video AND audio package designed to make local stations look and sound better […]
Read More »Golf Channel’s New Reality Show “Pipe Dream” Strikes A Chord
When one thinks of the Golf Channel you might not immediately think of it as the likely home for a new show about a homeless man seeking to redeem himself through his love of golf, but that’s the story behind their new reality series “Pipe Dream” — the story of Mark Burk, a pro golfer who had it all, lost it all and is now working his way back to […]
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