Steven McClintock and Tim James, owners of McJames Music Inc., met in 1977 in Newport Beach, California while playing in local bands. Tim orchestrated Steven his first cut by placing "Until Tonight" with his long time friend Juice Newton for her upcoming Capitol Records LP "TAKE HEART". At that time Island Music owned the copyright to "Until Tonight". Tim thought this was so easy that he and Steven might as well form their own publishing company and keep the copyrights for themselves.

Five long years and thousands of song pitches later they had their first cut as McJames Music. A song they'd written for an Anne Murray Christmas album (CHRISTMAS NEEDS LOVE TO BE CHRISTMAS) was recorded by Andy Williams and has gone on to sell more than 1 million copies.

The catalog has songs recorded by Shiny Toy Guns, Johnny Cash, Tiffany, Garth Brooks, White Apple Tree, Juice Newton, Hank Williams Jr., Sixwire, Paul Jefferson, Victoria Shaw, Chris Ledoux, ATC, Murray Head, Rose Maddox and John Jorgenson, Aaron Tippin, The Nelsons, Heather Small. PC Quest, Janie Fricke, David Pomeranz, Dan Seals and more along with hundreds of licenses for TV, film and commercials.  Such has....Dancing with the Stars, Gossip Girls, Dirty Sexy Money, Private Practice, Ugly Betty, Motorolla Razor II, Honda CRV, Scion, Bombay Sapphire Gin, Wall Street II, Blood and Chocolate, The Jetsons, Illegally Yours, America's Top Model, The City, The Hills, CSI, and more.

Steven and Tim are still the sole owners of McJames Music Inc. and continue to passionately write and pitch songs as well as actively sign new music from other writers. McJames Music's catalog now contains over 2700 songs of which over 537 have been recorded for commercial release as well as composing as a team 19 film scores.  And the story continues.....