"Ruth used to dance with Bobby at the club every Friday evenin'
Just a little bit of joy in a world full of sorrow and sin"

Songs of Danny Sullivan

    When I was a  young kid  of 13 or 14, I decided I wanted to be a songwriter.   So I listened to lots of rock 'n roll music on the radio and learned how to play a few chords on a Lowry organ that my Mom and Dad had bought for the family.  Then I started writing songs.
    At first, the songs weren't very good.   I'd make these little tapes on a small reel-to-reel recorder up in the attic using my brother's guitar.   I wasn't much of a singer or musician, so I was careful about who I let listen to them.
    I  went into the Navy in '69 and wrote a few more songs, but they still weren't very good. So I  kept practicing and writing.
    Around 1972 I  took some of my  songs to Nashville, TN.   Back then the publishing companies were located in houses on 16th and 17th Avenue and you could just knock on their door and some of  them would let you in and listen to your songs.   A  guy at a company by the name of SING ME MUSIC liked one of my songs and signed me to a single song contract.   I was grateful and thought I had it made.    But nothing came of the song.  It was never recorded. SING ME MUSIC folded and that was that.
    I  got married, took a job at the post office, had two beautiful daughters and I kept writing songs.    
    Occasionally,  I'd  send a few of them  to any publisher who would listen.  But  by the late '70s country music had gotten  big and there were so many songwriters in Nashville it was hard to get a foot in the door.   And the publishers who would listen would either not write back or write back and say my songs weren't the type  they were looking for.  Once in awhile I'd get discouraged, but not for long.
    The kids eventually  grew up and left, and me and the wife  got divorced.   And I  kept writing songs.   
    Then one day it dawned on me.   Even if I never got a song published or recorded,  somewhere along the way I  had become what I had wanted to be way back when I was a kid listening to the Beach Boys on the radio.
    I was a songwriter.  
    And then Al Gore invented the Internet, and now I can publish my songs.  
    So here they  are.  The songs of a minor American poet.  If you like some of them, let me know.  And send my web page around to your  friends if you think they might like it. I'll be updating the page occasionally, so stop back again.  Thanks for taking the time to look around.
Danny