| 12/01/12 |
Wisconsin Public TV has selected "Before It's
Too Late" a song Ricki and Jim wrote about teen suicide for a
program airing state-wide in Wisconsin on December 11, 2012.
Stoney Beach Music will be offering a free download of the
song following the airing until December 31, 2012.
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| 10/27/12 |
Jim and Ricki were notified that their song
"The Price" was picked up for a short Indie film in LA
called "The Company".
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| 9/29/12 |
Ricki and I placed in two different SOWI
(Songwriters Of Wisconsin, International) song contest categories.
In the Open Category "Can't Say It Enough" took
second and in the Rock/Pop category "Awakening" took
second place. Ricki and I were named Songwriters of the
Year.
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| 8/23/12 |
Ricki and Jim are busy composing new songs and
several were selected by an LA based company that provides songs
to advertising, movie and TV outlets. The documentary Duty,
Honor, Country: Betrayal is in post production and should be
released soon. Jim is the associate producer of that film
and Ricki and Jim have five musical cues in that documentary.
Ricki and Jim have been in conversations with another
independent filmmaker in LA about using songs from their ever
expanding catalog. Ricki, Jim and Al Torsiello's CD Vietnam:
There and Back is now available at
www.vietnamthereandback.com and has received several very good
reviews. One song "Nobody Cared" is also in
the documentary referenced above.
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| 4/16/12 |
Vocalist Elise Lieberth is
featuring a Bellos and Purtell song called "Rescue" on
her youtube channel. Check her out: Elise
Lieberth YouTube Page
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| 4/12/12 |
Ricki and Jim placed five
songs in a documentary called "Duty, Honor Country:
Betrayal" which will be released shortly. Stay
tuned as there may be a soundtrack for this film. Ricki, Jim
and Al Torsiello placed a song called "Nobody Cared" in
the same documentary. This song will be featured in their
new CD called Vietnam: There and Back which will be
available soon at a site which is currently under construction
www.vietnamthereandback.com
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| 3/5/12 |
SECOS is now
available! We will be working this week to get it up on this
site (Direct), and on Reverb Nation....Stay tuned...
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| 3/5/12 |
Ricki helped Jim and his
Vietnam Vet buddy Al Torsiello write a CD about our Vietnam
experiences which is being recorded and produced as of this
writing.
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| 2/4/12 |
Our new album
"SECOS" will be available in about 10 days. Please
contact us to pre-order your copy, and watch here for the official
release...
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| 11/4/11 |
Colleen Miller, Jim Hendrick
and Jim Purtell teamed up once again to do a video to a Bellos
& Purtell composition called "Almost
There". The team interpreted the song in this video to
be about a grieving widow who is considering another romance after
losing her husband in Iraq. She has met another guy who she
cares for a lot and she's "Almost There" with regard to
making the commitment. Elise Lieberth from Denver, CO
did the vocals for this video.
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| 8/11/11 |
Ricki and Jim
recently wrote a song to honor Korean War veterans after Jim
attended an event honoring his uncle at the Highground Veterans
Memorial in Neillsville, WI. The Korean War
is commonly called the forgotten war and the veterans who
fought in that war were referred to as forgotten
veterans. Ricki and Jim picked up on that theme and wrote a
song called "Forgotten No More". After the song
was completed, Jim decided to do another music video. Jim
recruited his sister Colleen Miller and with Jim Hendrick
they produced a moving music video called "Forgotten No
More". The song is performed by Jon Statham. The
video can be viewed on our Videos page, as well as on YouTube.
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| 5/01/11 |
If I Close My
Eyes wins Tropicalia's Songwriting Contest. View
Online Article |
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| 4/17/11 |
Just released--New video
for "If I Close My Eyes". See it here first:
If I Close My Eyes on
YouTube |
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