"It all starts with a song" goes the old saying, and to us it also ends with a song. Long after the fad has faded and the moment has past it may be hard to recall who sang "Stardust", "As Time Goes By" or even in generations to come "Imagine” or “I Hope You Dance”, but the songs will still be played. They have a life of their own.

At McJames Music Inc./37 Songs, our goal is to nurture the writer to give the song a chance to be born.  We understand that everything coming out of our writers will not be immediately recorded and some of the songs will never make the charts.   But we as publishers will be there to offer our suggestions to improve the lyric, our production skills to better the demo, and our networking abilities to allow the song a chance in a very demanding and crowded marketplace.  

We understand the fact that some songs take time to find their place.  We signed a song called “Jayney” by a young writer in Washington named Johnny Nestor way back in 1974.  It wasn’t until 1990 that this song finally found its home when it was recorded by Dan Seals.  All This Time was written in 1980 and pitched to virtually “everyone”. Nine years later, a young girl named Tiffany took the song into the Billboard Top Ten. Tiffany went on to sell over 4  million copies of her sophmore CD of which “All This Time” was a part. We worked with Chad Petree and Jeremy Dawson for 15 years and countless incarnations before they were signed to Motown/Universal as Shiny Toy Guns. The moral is that all overnight success generally takes years of hard work. To us it has always been more about the journey than the destination.

With over 30 years in the game, we expect that good things might take time and will need our support, knowledge and expertise to help them be noticed.  The SONGS will speak for themselves.  That said, we hope that some of our songs will still be speaking for themselves long after we have stopped writing and publishing them and that they will continue to "live long and prosper."