GREAT SHOW last night! Please check this out this song.
How about using it on your next Radio Free Republic broadcast?
Steve Vaus sounds like our kind of guy!
THE MUSIC BUSINESS SAYS:
"No conservatives
or patriots allowed!"
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Steve Vaus has performed for millions of fans around the world. He has created music for television programs, pro sports teams, the America's Cup, the Olympics, the World Series and the United States Navy Blue Angels. He has recorded with Willie Nelson, Kenny Loggins, Randy Travis and other superstars. He's been named an Outstanding Young Citizen, won countless awards, even been invited to sing at the White House. But none of that makes any difference to corporate entertainment executives. They've gone to great lengths to keep his patriotic music off the airwaves and out of record stores. The trouble began in 1992 while Vaus was signed to a recording contract with RCA Records. Just as his rousing anthem for cultural renewal, "We Must Take America Back," began climbing the charts, Vaus was summarily dropped by RCA because of complaints by a handful of deejays who objected to the music's themes:
We must take America back
Put an end to the gangs and the drugs in the street
And the fact that the bad guys most always go free
That is wrongWe need leaders who lead us
Not stick us and bleed us
and take all our money and send it abroad
We must take America back
We need prayer in the schools
and more things Made in USA
It's the least we can do for the red, white and blue
We must take America back.
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The fact that the public loved the song (and made it a top request from coast to coast) is what made Vaus dangerous in the eyes of the music industry. The fact that RCA received thousands of calls protesting the decision to pull the record off the store shelves made no difference. Vaus' RCA career was over. In 1995, history repeated itself. Some new Vaus songs grabbed the attention of another Nashville record company. A deal was struck. But weeks before the release, the project was canceled after label employees protested the record's conservative content.
Who would have thought that an artist could be censored by the entertainment industry because of an uncompromising stand for God and country? Who would have thought we would see the day when sex and violence in music is celebrated, yet songs about faith and freedom are forbidden?
Don't get mad, get even. Show RCA and the other record companies they made a big mistake in sacrificing principle for politics, morality for conformity and decency for phony hipness. Steve Vaus has recorded six albums -- full of songs you'll listen to over and over again and happily share with your friends and family.