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Dan Hartman is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Animals, Johnny Winter, Motown, The Edgar Winter Group and Nona Hendryx. Those roots explain a lot about how Dan Hartman arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as KC and the Sunshine Band, Kenny Loggins, Billy Ocean, The Pointer Sisters and Tavares, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Loleatta Holloway, Black Box, Peter Brown, Plasmatics and Nona Hendryx, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 45 connections around Dan Hartman, reaching back through Animals and forward to Loleatta Holloway. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Daniel Earl Hartman was an American pop rock musician. Among songs he wrote and recorded were "Free Ride" as a member of the Edgar Winter Group, and the solo hits "Relight My Fire", "Instant Replay", "I Can Dream About You", "We Are the Young" and "Second Nature". "I Can Dream About You", his most successful US hit, reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984. The James Brown song "Living in America", which Hartman co-wrote and produced, reached No. 4 on March 1, 1986.
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Dan Hartman connections
Dan Hartman grew out of Animals, Johnny Winter, Motown and The Edgar Winter Group, shares an orbit with KC and the Sunshine Band, Kenny Loggins, Billy Ocean and The Pointer Sisters, went on to shape Loleatta Holloway, Black Box, Peter Brown and Plasmatics. 45 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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