Overview
"Venice Beach" is the story of Dawn Rae. A hooker/dope fiend trying to stay alive in her own self-imposed nightmare in this seedy, violent sub-culture that thrives in this ocean-side area of Los Angeles. Eight peoples lives become entangled in a world of drugs, greed and murder. The story accelerates thru to the final chapters and speeds towards its shocking and psychotic conclusion.
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About the author
Stephen Allen Davis
Stephen Allen Davis grew up outside of Nashville in Hendersonville, Tennessee. During his teens he was a nationally ranked tournament water skier and played basketball and football. But seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, February 9, 1964, forever changed what he wanted to do with his life. From age 14, he organized his own bands and played in and around Nashville. During his senior year he had a football injury that took that sport and the skiing away and like life can do, something was to replace it.
In 1967, the summer he got of out high school he started playing bass in a band that worked in the infamous Printer’s Alley. He was underage and the drummer in the band got him a fake ID. Later on that summer the band, “Billy Osborne and the Tracers”, got a house gig in Indianapolis at the Sugar Shack. The six of them moved into two rooms at a downtown hotel. Stephen’s mother made him promise to return and go to college. He entered Peabody College in Nashville that fall.
Stephen talked with his uncle, Music City legend, Harold Bradley, about getting into the music business. He suggested contacting a publisher. Stephen got the phone book and found Music Publishers and called until someone said they would see him. That person was Norro Wilson, who ran Al Gallico Music. In his first meeting. Norro listened but nothing really knocked him out. Davis asked if he could play him one more song. He did not have it on tape but he could he play it on guitar. He played a song that was written one night in his bedroom at home. Norro immediately recognized this as a potential hit song. He contacted Gallico in New York and Davis played it over the phone for him. Gallico also felt the song was a hit. He said he wanted to take the song to Jerry Wexler for Percy Sledge. That song was one of Percy’s biggest hits, “Take Time To Know Her”. Stephen was inked to a publishing deal at $175 a month. The early part of 1968 also saw Steve Davis get his first recording contract with RCA Records.
Since then Stephen has written over 350 songs that have been recorded with total sales of over 30 Million Records. He has 18 BMI “Most Performed” song awards and has been nominated for Grammy’s twice. He has three BMI “Million Aire” award songs in his catalog. His songs have been recorded by a diverse group of artists. Everyone from Diana Ross to Tammy Wynette, Joe Cocker to George Jones and Meatloaf to Johnny Mathis.
Davis’ own self-released CD, “The Light Pink Album”, was hailed in 1995 by AAA Radio guru Dennis Constantine at KBCO-Boulder as the epitome of the new Triple-A format which Constantine was trailblazing. In 2011 Stephen did his first PBS special, “THE DESERT SESSIONS“ which was described as a cutting edge live performance that introduced a large section of the country to his music.
Stephen Allen Davis’s skill in writing great songs has transcended into also writing a novel and three screenplays, the most recent of which is “WELCOME TO MOUTHFULL”, a comedic look at the fictional backwoods exploits of JohnnyElvisCash, perhaps one of the most talented musicians to never quite make it out of Mouthfull, Tennessee. Currently in development for production on network/cable television, “WELCOME TO MOUTHFULL” should prove to be Davis’s most creative endeavor yet.
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Partial Discography
Percy Sledge Take Time To Know Her (#1 Pop/R&B Single)
Joe Cocker Love Is On Fade
No Ordinary World
Different Roads
Highway, Highway
Just To Keep From Drowning
The Way Her Love Is
Love On A Fade (Total 12 Million Sales)
Just To Keep From Drowning
Meatloaf Where Angels Sing (5 Million Sales) Trace Adkins Thankful Man (500,000 Sales)
Diana Ross The Best Years Of My Life (2 Million Sales)
Ronnie Dunn I’m Not Ready Yet
Faith Hill No Greater Love
John Hiatt Take Time To Know He
Frank Sinatra Penny
Tammy Wynette One Of A Kind (#1 Country Single)
No One Else In The World (#8 Country Single)
Reba McIntyre Just A Little Love (#1 Country Single)
The Divinyls A Long Time
George Jones The Fool Strikes Again
Barbara Mandrell There’s No Love In Tennessee (#1 Country Single)
Only A Lonely Heart Knows (#4 Country Single)
Charly McClain Sleeping With The Radio On (#1 Country Single)
Radio Heart (#1 Country Single)
Just One Look In Your Eyes (#3 Country Single)
Jo Dee Messina Stand Beside Me (#1 Country Single)
Lonestar No Greater Love Tom Jones Once In A Lifetime
Tanya Tucker The Child
Little Texas Amy’s Back In Austin (#4 Country Single)
Charlie Rich Beautiful Woman (#9 Country Single)
Johnny Paycheck 15 Beers (#8 Country Single)
Alabama Down On Longboat Key (2 Million Sales)
Memphis Slim I Was Born In Memphis
Engelbert Humperdinck My One True Love
Johnny Mathis I’ll Do It All For You
Lacy J. Dalton Forever And Forever
Tanya Tucker The Child
Recording Artist / Stephen Allen Davis
The Lemonade Charade / Hideaway of your Love / Smash Records / 1967
Produced by: Tony Moon
Steve Davis: Lead Singer and Guitar
Steve Davis / RCA / 1969
Produced by: Norro Wilson
Single: A Song That Reminds Me of You / A Change In My Life
Written by: Steve Davis
RCA Studio B -Nashville, Tennessee
Steve Davis Group / Music / RCA-LP / 1970
Produced by: Steve Davis / Gerald Bentley Smith / Danny Davis
All songs written by: Steve Davis
Steve Davis: All Vocals, Piano, B-3 Hammond, Guitars, Marimba
Recorded and Mixed by: Al Pachuki / RCA Studio A - Nashville, Tennessee
Steve Davis / A Japanese Opera LP/ 1972
Produced by: Steve Davis / Philip McDonald
Recorded at: EMI Abby Road / Apple Studios – Saville Row London, England
All Song Written by Steve Davis
Steve Davis: All vocals / Glass Guitars / Piano/ Bass / Drums
Mixed at: Apple Studios / London, England by Philip McDonald
Steve Davis / Double-Measure, Double-Pleasure / Barclay Records / 1974
Produced by: Philippe Rault
All Songs Written by: Steve Davis
Steve Davis: All Vocals / Guitar / Piano / Keys
Recorded at: Ray Stevens Lab by David Malloy, Nashville
Mixed at: Studio In The Country / Bogalusa, Louisiana
Steve Davis / Single / Step Lovers / Columbia Records / 1977
Produced by: Billy Sherrill
Song Written by: Steve Davis / Sammy Lyons
Steve Davis / Single / Up There With You / Epic Records/ 1978
Produced by: Billy Sherrill
Song Written by: Steve Davis / Danny Dean Darst
Steve Davis / Mr. Everything LP/ Epic-Sony / 1979
Produced by: Pete Drake
All Songs Written by: Steve Davis
Steve Davis: All Vocals / Piano / B-3 Hammond / Guitars
Stephen Allen Davis / Blues Indigo Projections LP -EMI / 1988
Produced by: Stephen Allen Davis
All Songs Written by: Stephen Allen Davis
S.A.Davis: All Vocals / Piano / Guitar
Stephen Allen Davis / The Light Pink Album CD / Hometown Records / 1993
Produced by: Stephen Allen Davis
All Song written by: Stephen Allen Davis
Stephen Allen Davis: All Vocals / Guitars / Keyboards
Engineered and Mixed by: James Tuttle / Boulder, Colorado
Stephen Allen Davis / The Pinecliffe Tapes CD / Hometown Records / 1995
Produced by: Stephen Allen Davis
All Song written by: Stephen Allen Davis
Stephen Allen Davis: All Vocals / Guitars / Keyboards
Engineered and Mixed by: James Tuttle / Boulder, Colorado
Stephen Allen Davis / The Desert Sessions CD / Hometown Records / 1995
Produced by: Stephen Allen Davis
All Song written by: Stephen Allen Davis
Stephen Allen Davis: All Vocals / Guitars / Keyboards
Engineered and Mixed by: Stephen Allen Davis / Nederland, Colorado
Stephen Allen Davis / Human-Human CD/ Hometown Records / 1999
Produced by: Stephen Allen Davis
All Song written by: Stephen Allen Davis
Stephen Allen Davis: All Vocals / Guitars / Keyboards
Engineered and Mixed by: Stephen Allen Davis / Marina Del Rey, California
JohnnyElvisCash: Running Wild CD (12 cuts) 2007
Music Produced by: Stephen Allen Davis and Mann Randolph
Songs Written and Performed by: Stephen Allen Davis
Musicians: Stephen Allen Davis
Recorded and Mixed by: Stephen Allen Davis @ Twangstar Studios / Nederland Colorado
Filmography Credits
The Desert Sessions: Music and Film Credits / 2005
Produced by: Stephen Allen Davis / Bill Thorvelson / Paul Soderman for Warrior Artists
Directed by: Stephen Allen Davis / Paul Soderman
Music Written and Performed by: Stephen Allen Davis
Editing: Stephen Allen Davis / Paul Soderman
Live Recording and Mixes: James Tuttle / Boulder, Colorado
JohnnyElvisCash: Video Credits
Running Wild: 2012
Produced by: Stephen Allen Davis and Mann Randolph
Creative Concept: Stephen Allen Davis
Directed by: Stephen Allen Davis
Music Written, Performed and Produced by: Stephen Allen Davis
Camera and Editing: Stephen Allen Davis
Actor: Stephen Allen Davis
Sleep Now My Love: 2012
Produced by: Stephen Allen Davis and Mann Randolph
Creative Concept: Stephen Allen Davis
Directed by: Stephen Allen Davis
Music Written, Performed and Produced by: Stephen Allen Davis
Camera and Editing: Stephen Allen Davis
Actor: Stephen Allen Davis
Welcome To Mouthfull/ TV Show -In Development- 2014
Creative Concept: Stephen Allen Davis
Writer: Stephen Allen Davis
Music Written, Performed and Produced by: Stephen Allen Davis
Recorded and Mixed by: Stephen Allen Davis
Lead Character: JohnnyElvisCash played by Stephen Allen Davis
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